Trip Reports & Sightings

Posted by Stephen Blaber

Spain - Aragon - The Steppes and Pyrenees - 7th - 20th May 2009, author Stephen Blaber (added September 9, 2009)
(Great Bustard, Black Woodpecker, Dupont's Lark, Black Wheatear, Alpine Chough)

French Guiana - 6th - 26th August 2023, author Stephen Blaber (added September 23, 2023)
(Montagne de Kaw, St Elie, Angouleme, Green Aracari, Purple-breasted Cotinga, Golden-sided Euphonia)

Central Colombia - 21 September - 14 October 2011, author Stephen Blaber (added October 26, 2011)
(ProAves reserves: El Paujil, Bushbird, Reinita Azul, Pauxi Pauxi, Arrierito, Las Tangares & more)

Vanuatu - searching for the endemics - 17 September - 23 September 2019, author Stephen Blaber (added October 18, 2019)
(Santo, Loru, Vatthe, Tanna Fruit Dove, Red-bellied Fruit Dove, Baker's Imperial Pigeon)

New Caledonia - searching for the endemics - 23 September - 29 September 2019, author Stephen Blaber (added October 18, 2019)
(Mt Koghis, Rivière Bleu, Parc des Grandes Fougères, Bourail grasslands, Horned Parakeet)

Belize - 22nd April -11th May 2023, author Stephen Blaber (added May 31, 2023)
(St. Hermans, Bocawina, Big Falls, Lamanai, Yucatan Poorwill, Yucatan Nightjar)

Ecuador - 22 March - 19 April 2013, author Stephen Blaber (added May 18, 2013)
(Cuenca, Wild Sumaco, Sani Lodge, Undulated, White-lored, Thrush-like & Ochre-striped Antpittas )

Central Chile - 19 April - 23 April 2013, author Stephen Blaber (added May 13, 2013)
(Farellones, El Yeso, Diademed Sandpiper-Plover)

Puerto Rico - 15th - 28th February 2023, author Stephen Blaber (added March 21, 2023)
(Rio Abajo, Maricao, Guanica, El Yunque, Puerto Rican Parrot, Puerto Rican Nightjar)

Ethiopia – endemics, near endemics and hard to find species - 14th May - 4th June 2017, author Stephen Blaber (added June 28, 2017)
(highlands, Bale Mts, central lakes, southern border regions)

North-west Argentina - 12 April - 11 May 2008, author Stephen Blaber (added June 1, 2008)
(Cordoba, Tucuman, Salta, Jujuy)

Canary Islands - 16th June - 5th July 2022, author Stephen Blaber (added July 28, 2022)
(Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife, Houbara, Canary Islands Chat, Blue Chaffinch)

Southern Ecuador - 28 May – 14 June 2010, author Stephen Blaber (added July 27, 2010)
(Jocotoco Reserves, Yankuam, Nangaritza)

Central Chile - 15th - 27th June 2010, author Stephen Blaber (added July 24, 2010)
(crag chilia, moustached urca, chucao tapaculo, magellanic tapaculo, dusky tapaculo)

Madagascar - 7th - 29th December 2015, author Stephen Blaber (added January 22, 2016)
(northwest, east, central, south, all vangas, mesites, ground rollers, asities)

India - Andaman Islands - 6th January - 14th January 2020, author Stephen Blaber (added January 21, 2020)
(Shoal Bay, Mt Harriet, Chidiya Tapu, all endemics)

Mexico - Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit & Durango highway - 4th - 29th December 2008, author Stephen Blaber (added January 18, 2009)
(most endemics)

Samoa - 24 November - 1 December 2022, author Stephen Blaber (added December 6, 2022)
(Vaisigano, Malololelei, Lanoto'o, all endemics)

Cuba - endemics and West Indian endemics - 10 November - 23 November 2018 , author Stephen Blaber (added December 6, 2018)
(Vinales, Cayo Coco, La Belen, Zapata)

Ghana - rainforest and savanna birds - 17 November - 7 December 2009, author Stephen Blaber (added December 26, 2009)
(Kakum, Mole, Bobiri, Aboabo, Winneba, Tono Dam, Picathartes, hornbills)

Australia, Norfolk Island - 24 November - 4 December 2020, author Stephen Blaber (added December 13, 2020)
(Norfolk Robin, Norfolk Parakeet, Slender-billed White-eye, National Park)

Jamaica - searching for the endemics - 23rd - 30th November 2018, author Stephen Blaber (added December 11, 2018)
(Blue Mountains, John Crow Mountains, Hellshire Hills)

Uganda – western forest and northern savanna birds - 24 June - 23 July 2011, author Stephen Blaber (added August 8, 2011)
(Albertine rift species, Semliki Forest, Murchison, Kidepo, Lake Bisina)

Northern Chile - 15th - 25th July 2012, author Stephen Blaber (added August 6, 2012)
(Arica, Azapa Valley, Chaca Valley, Putre, Lauca National Park)

Bolivia - 12 June - 8 July 2014, author Stephen Blaber (added August 5, 2014)
(Los Volcanes, RFMR, Siberia, Camino de la Muerte)

Zambia - 17 June – 6 July 2016, author Stephen Blaber (added August 24, 2016)
(Mwinilunga, Chimfunshi, Kasanka, Nkanga, Machile)

North-west Ecuador - 5th July - 13th July 2012, author Stephen Blaber (added August 22, 2012)
(Choco, Canandé and Playa de Oro)

Colombia - 7 June - 1 July 2012, author Stephen Blaber (added August 10, 2012)
(Chingaza, Otun-Quimbaya, Rio Blanco, Tatama, Santa Marta, Guajira)

Southern Chile - 20 February - 27 February 2015, author Stephen Blaber (added April 30, 2015)
(Chiloe Island and around Puerto Montt)