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

Birding Tours  (& other nature TOURS)  Worldwide Calendar Listing in  chronological  order 2008 2009

Customer Comments

Our thanks to all of those who participated with us 
on tours and pelagic trips as we're now in our 18th year.

FEATURE PHOTOS:

Above: An Ocelot at night
crossing a road in front of us,
during the FONT March 2008 tour in Brazil.

Below: Another mammal during that tour,
a rarity, a young Maned 3-Toed Sloth
in the Atlantic Forest of southeast Brazil.
 
(both photos courtesy of Marie Gardner) 

More photos from the FONT March '08 Tour in:

A Sampling of Brazilian Nature & Scenery
  

Above: Ruddy Kingfishers are seen during 
FONT Birding & Nature Tours
in Japan in the Spring. 

Below: a Glasswing Butterfly, 
one of the Neotropical butterflies
seen during FONT Birding & Nature Tours
in Central & South America.

 

LINKS TO  FEATURED ITEMS OF INTEREST Our Japan Winter Tour with Blakiston's Fish Owl, Eagles, Cranes, Mandarins, & More A Brazilian Tour with a Merganser, an 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 Panama with an "A -Team" of Anhinga, Ani, Aracari,  along with Agami (relating to a tour  in eastern Panama & Darien) 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  A Chile Tour,  from the Pacific to the High Andes  Albatrosses & other seabirds  off the Chilean coast "Nothing 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 The "Northern Lights",  or Aurora Borealis as during FONT tours in  Iceland in October      * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Photographic Sampling  of Nature & Scenery of Brazil (from our Mar '08 Tour) A Photographic Sampling of the Nature & Culture of Sweden (from our Sept  '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 Alexander Skutch:  A Naturalist in Costa Rica  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Lists of Mammals & Other Wildlife (including Reptiles & Amphibians):  North America Central America  South America             Japan Europe  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Butterflies of Arizona Butterflies of North Carolina  Butterflies of Texas (432 species) (with notes for those in the  Lower  Rio Grande Valley) Selected Butterflies of Central America (over 900 species)   Selected Butterflies of South America (over 700 species) Butterflies of the West Indies Butterflies of Japan   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Gallery of Dragonfly Photos   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Yes, Seabirding can  be "black & white". A portfolio of photos by Alan Brady

Annually there have been Focus On Nature Tours, 
for nearly 18 years, in about 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 
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, 
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

A specialty of the FONT (Focus On Nature Tours) program has been
 one-day pelagic trips for seabirds and marine mammals offshore from the Eastern USA (from New Jersey & Delaware), and other pelagic trips elsewhere in the world.

These pages last updated on 13 May 2008.