Birding Tours (& other  nature TOURS)  Worldwide Geographical Listing in  alphabetical order

Birding Tours  (& other nature TOURS)  Worldwide Calendar Listing in  chronological  order 2010 2011

Customer Comments & Testimonials

Our thanks to everyone who traveled 
with us thus far this year,  
as we are now into our 20th year! 

SOME FEATURE PHOTOS:
 

This bird occurred in North America only 5 times in the 20th Century.
Most recently, in Canada. 2 other times in Canada. Once in the US.
And once in another country on the west side of the North Atlantic.
It has been found on FONT tours in 4 countries east of the Atlantic.

Read more about the CORNCRAKE 
in List #1 of NORTH AMERICA BIRDS. Link above.  
  

This animal, a SEROW, was seen during 
a recent FONT tour in Japan.
 
The photos here are 3 of 1200 in this web-site, of assorted nature:
mostly birds, but also mammals (as above), amphibians, reptiles,
butterflies, dragonflies, damselflies, marine life, wildflowers,
other plants, celestial phenomena, and more.   
There's a link above to a directory of the photographs.

In the photo below, there are 3 birds.
A mother Potoo & her two babies.

 

During Focus On Nature Tours, we see birds mostly.
But the other nature that we also see include:
Mammals, Butterflies, Plants, 
Amphibians & Reptiles.

On the left-side of this home-page
there are links to lists of each of these
at the various places we go.
Take a look at some, 
especially those with photos, 
and it'll be evident that
there's such a vast array of nature
to see, for those who look closely. 

Among the birds we never tire of seeing
are hummingbirds.
Above is a male Gray-tailed Mountaingem
of Costa Rica.
(This & the above  photo of the potoos
courtesy of Ruben Campos).
 
During many FONT tours throughout the Americas, 
hummingbirds are seen, in places as diverse
as Arizona (especially in the late summer),
Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, 
Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, and on Caribbean islands.
There's a link below, on the right-side of this home-page,
  to Hummingbird Photographs,
including, for example, 3 of the rare Mexican Sheartail
taken during a FONT tour in March 2009 
in the Yucatan of Mexico.
      The photo below (by Howard Eskin)
 is of an adult female Allen's Hummingbird,
1 of 14 species of hummingbirds
that have been seen during FONT tours in Arizona.

 

LINKS TO  FEATURED ITEMS OF INTEREST FONT PHOTO GALLERIES:  BIRDS that would be rare  in NORTH AMERICA  ALBATROSSES & other SEABIRDS  off the coast of  CHILE        CRANES during  FONT Tours in JAPAN &  North America  SHOREBIRDS in JAPAN (53 species seen  during FONT tours) RARE BIRDS of JAPAN (including the recent counts of cranes) RARE BIRDS of BRAZIL RARE BIRDS of the CARIBBEAN Today & those in that region gone extinct (incl. macaws, parrots, parakeets)   The GROUSE of COLORADO, NEBRASKA, & KANSAS       HUMMINGBIRDS & HAWKS  in southern ARIZONA          HUMMINGBIRDS during FONT Tours (with over 60 of them in photos) Some Photogenic BIRDS, MAMMALS, & OTHER NATURE worldwide BIRDS throughout  the Americas   A Feature about ALEXANDER SKUTCH with a directory of his writings  and a PHOTO GALLERY  of NEOTROPICAL BIRDS COSTA RICA: COLORFUL BIRDS BRAZIL: BIRDS & OTHER NATURE from our Oct '09  Tour in Minas Gerais & Rio Grande do Sul BRAZIL: NATURE & SCENERY from our Jul-Aug '08 Tour at Iguacu Falls,  the Pantanal, & in southeast Brazil BRAZIL: NATURE & SCENERY from our Mar '08 Tour in Minas Gerais, the Pantanal, & in southeast Brazil BRAZIL: ANIMALS & BIRDS from our Sep '06 Tour  in the Pantanal GUATEMALA:  NATURE & SCENERY  from our Dec '06/Jan'07  Holiday Tour COLORADO, USA: NATURE & SCENERY COLORADO, USA & nearby states:  BIRDS from our Apr '05 tour  MEXICO, the YUCATAN:  NATURE & CULTURE from our March '09 Tour MEXICO, SONORA: NATURE & SCENERY from our Sep '08 Tour  ICELAND: NATURE & CULTURE from our June '09 Tour ICELAND: BIRDS & SCENERY from our Jun '06 Tour ICELAND: SCENERY & NATURE SWEDEN: NATURE & CULTURE from our Sep '07 Tour JAPAN: CULTURE & SCENERY from our Dec '04 Tour BELIZE: NATURE & CULTURE from our Mar '07 Tour SEABIRDS in black & white A portfolio of photos by Alan Brady                * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FONT TOUR NARRATIVES: CHILE: from the Pacific  to the High Andes JAPAN: Blakiston's Fish Owl, Eagles,  Cranes, Mandarins, & More  during a FONT Winter Tour JAPAN: on 5 Islands:  Honshu, Kyushu, Okinawa, Amami,  and one, Hegura, a special little island  that's a magnet for many birds during a FONT Spring Tour A tiny island bursting with birds in spring migration,  Hegura, in the Sea of Japan BRAZIL: in Minas Gerais & Rio Grande do Sul with the most birds of any FONT Tour (that Rio Grande is "just north of the border"  - with that of Uruguay)   BRAZIL: a rare Merganser, a rare Eagle, & a rare Sloth during a FONT tour  BRAZIL: Hyacinth Macaw, & many other birds,  and a Jaguar during a FONT tour ICELAND: with  3 Gyrfalcons,  an all-white fox, avian vagrants,   and dancing lights  in the nighttime sky during a FONT fall tour The "Northern Lights",  or Aurora Borealis as during FONT tours in Iceland in the fall  ICELAND: with its Birds & so Much More during a FONT tour in June) SWEDEN:  A Wonderful Bird Migration in the Land  of Linnaeus     PANAMA: with an "A -Team"  of Anhinga, Ani, Aracari, & Agami during a FONT tour in eastern Panama & Darien    BELIZE: from the Reef to the Rainforest,  with A Lot of Nature in a Little Country during a FONT tour GUATEMALA:  with the rare Horned Guan,  other birds, and an Olive Ridley Sea Turtle during a FONT tour  HISPANIOLA : with interesting avifauna  & other nature that's rare, endemic, isolated, and with a history (during a FONT Dominican Republic Tour) ARIZONA: with a rare  Mexican Yellow Grosbeak, Montezuma Quail, and more - including Hummingbirds! during a FONT tour   Following the path of Lewis & Clark, and crossing paths  with a bird from Hawaii during a FONT West Coast USA tour "Nothing's much Finer than Birding in Carolina"  - an essay about birds & our tours in NORTH CAROLINA     * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SOLAR ECLIPSES & Other Celestial Nature during FONT Tours   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WHALE SHARKS & Other Marine-Life  off the Yucatan of Mexico * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Annually there have been Focus On Nature Tours, 
for now 20 years, in over 25 countries. 

Particularly notable are our JAPAN birding & nature tours 
(in winter, and the spring)
 
Our CARIBBEAN birding & nature tours have been 
to 7 West Indian islands.

 Our EUROPEAN birding & nature tours have been in: 
Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Hungary, & Poland. 

In NORTH AMERICA, our birding & nature tours have been  in: 
Alaska, Arizona, California & Washington State, Delaware; 
Colorado & Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, & Wyoming;  
Florida,  North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas & New Mexico. 

In CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA, our birding & nature tours 
have been in: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, 
Honduras, Mexico, Panama, 
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

A specialty of the FONT (Focus On Nature Tours) program, 
for 15 years, was the doing of  one-day pelagic trips 
for seabirds and marine mammals 
offshore from the Eastern USA 
(New Jersey, Delaware & North Carolina), 
with also, during that time and since, other pelagic trips 
elsewhere in the world - notably in Chile & Japan.

These pages last updated on 07 Aug 2010.