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

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

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

FEATURE PHOTOS: 

In the photo below, what do you see? 

Leaves, yes, but also, if you look closely,
a creature called the Children's Stick Insect,
Tropidoderus chilrenii,
a creature meant to look like a leaf.  

During Focus On Nature Tours, what do we see?

Well, birds mostly.
But also aspects of nature as well:
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. 
 

During the FONT tour in Colorado & nearby states 
in April 2009
 we saw birds such as Greater Prairie Chickens
performing at their leks on the plains,
and the Gray Jay in a mountain forest.
Both of the photographs below were taken
during that tour in 2009.
There's a link below,
on this side of the home-page,
to other photographs from that tour.
As of now, there's still availability
on that tour upcoming in April 2010. 

 

Hummingbirds are seen during many FONT tours
throughout the Americas, including those
in Arizona in the late-summer,
and in places as diverse as 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.

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The photos above are just a few 
of the over 1,150 photographs,
of birds, mammals, butterflies,
amphibians, reptiles, plants, and other nature
in this web-site.

DIRECTORY OF PHOTOS

LINKS TO  FEATURED ITEMS OF INTEREST A Photographic Sampling of BIRDS that in NORTH AMERICA would be RARE A Photographic Sampling of BIRDS  & OTHER NATURE in BRAZIL (from our Oct '09  Tour) A FONT Photographic Potpourri of BIRDS, MAMMALS, & OTHER NATURE A Photographic Sampling of the  Nature & Scenery in COLORADO          HUMMINGBIRDS during FONT Tours (with over 60 of them in photos) A Feature about ALEXANDER SKUTCH with a directory of his writings  and a PHOTO GALLERY  of NEOTROPICAL BIRDS WHALE SHARKS & Other Marine-Life  off the Yucatan of Mexico           * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A CHILE Tour,  from the Pacific  to the High Andes  Albatrosses  & other seabirds  off the Chilean coast With the Most Birds of any FONT Tour,  in the BRAZILIAN states of Minas Gerais  & Rio Grande do Sul (and that Rio Grande is "just north of the border" - with that of Uruguay)   Our JAPAN Winter Tour with Blakiston's Fish Owl, Eagles, Cranes, Mandarins, & More A BRAZILIAN Tour  with a rare Merganser, a rare Eagle,  and a rare Sloth  A BRAZILIAN Tour  with Hyacinth Macaw, many other birds,  and a Jaguar A Wonderful Bird Migration in SWEDEN, the Land of Linnaeus     A JAPANESE Spring Tour to 5 Islands:  Honshu, Kyushu, Okinawa, Amami,  and Hegura, a special little island  that's a magnet for many birds A tiny island bursting with birds in spring migration,  Hegura, in the Sea of Japan A Tour in ARIZONA with Mexican Yellow Grosbeak, Montezuma Quail, and more - including Hummingbirds! A Tour in PANAMA with an "A -Team" of Anhinga, Ani, Aracari,  along with Agami (relating to a tour  in eastern Panama & Darien)   ICELAND in the Fall  with 3 Gyrfalcons,  an all-white fox, avian vagrants,   and dancing lights  in the nighttime sky The "Northern Lights",  or Aurora Borealis as during FONT tours in Iceland in the fall   A WEST COAST USA Tour following the path of Lewis & Clark, and crossing paths  with a bird from Hawaii From the Reef to the Rainforest,  with A Lot of Nature in a Little Country - BELIZE Interesting Avifauna & Other Nature of HISPANIOLA (with birds & other wildlife  rare, endemic, isolated, with a history)  A GUATEMALA Tour  with the rare Horned Guan,  other birds, and an Olive Ridley Sea Turtle  "Nothing's much Finer than Birding in Carolina"  - an essay about birds & our tours in NORTH CAROLINA   ICELAND in June, with its Birds & so Much More Scenery & Nature of ICELAND     * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *  A Photographic Sampling of Nature & Culture in ICELAND (from our June '09 Tour) A Photographic Sampling of Nature & Culture in  the YUCATAN of MEXICO  (from our March '09 Tour) A Photographic Sampling of Hummingbirds & Hawks  in southern ARIZONA A Photographic Sampling  of Nature & Scenery of Sonora, Mexico (from our Sep '08 Tour)  A Photographic Sampling  of Nature & Scenery of BRAZIL (from our Mar '08 Tour) A Photographic Sampling  of Nature & Scenery of BRAZIL (from our Jul-Aug '08 Tour) A Photographic Sampling of the Nature & Culture of SWEDEN (from our Sep '07 Tour) A Photographic Sampling of the Nature & Culture of BELIZE (from our Mar '07 Tour) A Photographic Sampling  of BRAZILIAN  Animals & Birds (from our Sep '06 Tour ) A Photographic Sampling of GUATEMALAN  Nature & Scenery (from our Dec '06/Jan'07 Holiday Tour) A Photographic Sampling of ICELANDIC Birds & Scenery (from our Jun '06 Tour ) A Photographic Sampling  of JAPANESE Culture & Scenery (from our Dec '04 Tour)  A Photographic Sampling  of Birds  in COLORADO, USA & nearby states (from our Apr '05 tour) The Grouse of COLORADO & KANSAS  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SOLAR ECLIPSES & Other Celestial Nature during FONT Tours   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CRANES during  FONT Tours in JAPAN &  North America  SHOREBIRDS in JAPAN (53 species seen  during FONT tours) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * RARE BIRDS during our JAPAN Tours (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) Photos of some of the Sea-Life  that's been seen during  FONT Tours in the CARIBBEAN  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Photo Gallery of Birds Throughout  the Americas    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Yes, Seabirding can  be "black & white". A portfolio of photos by Alan Brady

Annually there have been Focus On Nature Tours, 
for now 20 years, in over 25 countries. 
Particularly notable are Japan birding tours (in winter, and the spring); Caribbean birding tours (to 7 West Indian islands);
 European birding tours (to Spain, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Iceland). In North America, birding tours have been  to: Arizona, California & Washington State, Colorado & Kansas, Florida,  North Carolina, Texas & New Mexico, and Alaska. 
In Central & South America, there are FONT birding tours 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 03 February 2010.