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Latin America/Caribbean Tour Operators offering predominantly local destinations

Escorted Bird Tour Operators based in Latin America or the Caribbean and offering tours mainly in the region where they are based. The areas they cover are indicated. Contact the operator for more details.

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Alambi Cloud Forest Reserve, at the foot of the Tandayapa Valley, has experienced bird guides and is the perfect base to access over 600 species of Ecuador´s Chocó. For more information, e-mail: info@alambicloudforest.com or reservations@alambicloudforest.com Phones: 593 - 9 - 974 0781 / 593 - 2 - 211 6245 / 593 - 9 - 897 3966. Web www.alambicloudforest.com/index.html

Amazonia Lodge, located in the tropical lowland rainforest of Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru. The new 65 foot high viewing platform is the only tower located in the pre-mountain rainforest of Peru. Tour the biosphere and elsewhere with Amazonia Lodge. www.amazonialodge.com Peru Office, Calle Matara 334 Tercer piso,Cusco, Tel/Fax:51-84-231370, Cell Phone: 51-984680963.

Andean Birding, Salazar Gómez E-1482 y Eloy Alfaro, Quito, Ecuador +593-2-22 42 207 www.andeanbirding.com

Asa Wright Nature Centre, PO Box 4710, Arima, Trinidad; phone 868 6674655; fax (868) 6674540; e-mail: asaright@tstt.net.tt (destinations: Trinidad)

Aves Patagonia, operates throughout southern South America and Peru. Horacio Matarasso and Gonzalo Salaberry, based in Patagonia, will share their passion for birding along with a group of guides across South America. For those wishing to organize a taylor made birding trip or for those wishing to join small groups of birdwatchers then visit their website at www.avespatagonia.com/en/inicio.

Belize Birding Tours offers premier bird watching trips in Belize for the avid or casual birdwatcher seeking to explore this wonderful country and its avifauna. Jon Friedman is the owner of Belize Birding Tours and has been leading international birding and wildlife photography trips since the late 1980's. www.belizebirdingtours.com

Birding Colombia has over 16 years of leading organised tours in Colombia, leading more groups to more sites, and seeing more species than any other tour operator in Colombia. Birding Colombia's unparalleled knowledge of the country means tailor made services with itineraries adapted to your style of bird watching. Web: www.birding-colombia.com Email: info@birding-colombia.com

Birding in Belize is a Belize birding tour guide company, with 7 & 10 day Belize and Tikal (Guatemala) bird tours specializing in small groups (1-6 clients) with seasoned bird guides with 30+ years in-country guiding experience. Tours cover a wide variety of habitats to maximize the best birding opportunities throughout the country, visiting wetlands, pine/oak savannahs, Caribbean coastal and lowland broadleaf submontane rainforest habitats to view as many of the nearly 600 species as possible. Web www.birding-in-belize.com/

Belize Birding Tours with Paradise Expeditions are an experienced Belizean-owned tour company, based in Belize, offering small and personalized Belize bird watching tours. Belizean tour guides are knowledgeable Belize experts on local birds. BBT cater for both the casual and the serious Belize birder. Choose from a range of Belize birding vacation packages and Belize bird tours either for the day or multiday guided Belize birding. www.birdinginbelize.com

Birding In Peru P.O. Box 606, Cusco, Peru. Tel: 51-84-226671 www.Birding-in-Peru.com (destinations: Peru)

Birdwatching Chile offer a range of birding and wildlife tours throughout Chile including the Humboldt pelagics. Run by Rodrigo Reyes and and marine biologist Carolina Yanes, contact Birdwatch Chile via e-mail info@birdwatchingchile.com or website: www.birdwatchingchile.com

Cayaya Birding, phone: (502) 308 5160 fax: (502) 433 0544 www.cayaya-birding.com (destinations: Guatemala)

Colombia Birding offer totally customised birding itineraries across Colombia. Contact Diego at diego@colombiabirding.com web www.colombiabirding.com

Costa Rica Birding, phone USA2025474127; www.cotingatours.com (destinations: Costa Rica)

Crystal Paradise Birding Tours Tel: 501-824-2772 www.crystalparadise.com (destinations: Belize)

Exploraves Birdwatchers, formerly known as Aratinga Aventuras Birdwatchers, is an Ecuador-based tour operator that specializes in birding tours in Southern Ecuador, specifically in the provinces of El Oro, Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe. Calle Lourdes 14-80, entre Sucre y Bolívar, Loja, Loja , Ecuador 11-01 phone 593-72582434 www.exploraves.com

Endemic Birds Tours organise birding and adventure tours in Ecuador, Peru and Kazakhstan. Based in Mindo, Ecuador. Visit their website www.endemicbirds.com or contact Boris Herrera, bird guide and environmental educator, through www.endemicbirds.com/contact-us

Fantastico Sur Expeditions is a Chilean tour company based in the vast and mythic southernmost region of South America known as Patagonia. Since 1997, the company has specialized in offering world-class birdwatching tours, natural history journeys, and botanical tours in Chile and the remote regions of Patagonia. Armando Sanhueza 579, CP 6212748, Punta Arenas, Chile 800.680.0640 (UK) | 800.656.1806 (US) | 56.61.615795 (Worldwide): www.fantasticosur.com e-mail: tours@fantasticosur.com

Jungle Birders The first birding agency owned and operated by native Amazonians. When you come to Ecuador you want to see native, not introduced, birds. Bird guides should be the same. All Jungle Birders tours are accommodated at comfortable lodges that understand the needs of birders and are situated in excellent birding habitat. Telephone number (Quito): (593 2) 2569 458; (593 9) 35-69-936 Web: www.junglebirders.com Email: info@junglebirders.com

InkaNatura Travel, phone (888) 287-7186; www.inkanatura.com (destinations: Peru)

Kolibri Expeditions provides birding trips to all corners of South America. Kolibri go off the beaten track to give you all possible endemics and specialties of the particular area you are in. Whatever style of birding, comfort, easy pace or hard-core Kolibri delivers more birds. E-mail to: kolibriexp@gmail.com web: www.kolibriexpeditions.com Address: Arias Schreiber 192 office 300, Miraflores, Lima, Peru. Phone 01-652-7689; cell 988-555-938.

Lamanai (Belize) Outpost Lodge, phone 1-888-733-7864; www.lamanai.com (destinations: Belize)

Manu Expeditons . P.O. Box 606, Cusco, Peru. Tel: 51-84-226671 www.ManuExpeditions.com (destinations: Peru)

Mindo Bird Tours, Quito, Ecuador, Telephone: 593-2-2454304 Cell Phone: 593-099-042210 www.mindobirds.com.ec (destinations: Ecuador)

Na Trilha Certa, Praça João Ribeiro, 204, Ed. Hermínia Sala 2, Centro, CEP 88600-000 São Joaquim, Santa Catarina, Brasil. Tele: (49) 3233-3470 Web: www.natrilhacerta.com.br e-mail: contato@natrilhacerta.com.br

Neblina Forest, phone 1-800-538-2149; www.neblinaforest.com e-mail: mrivaden@pi.pro.ec for Neblina Forest (Ecuador); (destinations: Ecuador, Galapagos)

Friends of the Osa, Costa Rica (FOO) is a nonprofit conservation organization founded to protect the Osa Peninsula's globally significant biodiversity. FOO operate the Osa Biodiversity Center, a Costa Rican biological station and conservation center with facilities to accommodate student groups, researchers, sea turtle volunteers, conservation professionals and others. For more information on conservation trips visit: http://www.osaconservation.org/ConservationTrips.html

San Jorge Eco-Lodges & Botanical Reserves, Quito, Ecuador, www.eco-lodgesanjorge.com Toll free 877-565-2596 USA & Canada

Seriema Nature Tours is a company based in Argentina, which focuses on birding and natural history tours across Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Antarctica. www.seriemanaturetours.com/

Shiripuno Amazon Lodge is a tourist facility in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Its remote location in the pristine tropical rainforest provides an extraordinary opportunity for birding, natural history excursions and nature explorations. The Lodge is adjacent to the Shiripuno Research Center, the most remote biological station in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin. Experienced tour guides offer visitors a range of excursions including bird watching, camping and nature tours. Visit www.shiripunolodge.com/

Tanager Tours is a leading tour operator for birding trips to Peru and other South American destinations. Active in Peru since 1999, Tanager Tours offer tailor-made tours as well as standard routes. Guides have extensive language skills, speaking Spanish, English, and Dutch accompanied by reliable and robust equipment. Group sizes are small – generally between 2 to 7 clients. Contact by phone (Lima): +51 1 669 0825; (Cusco): +51 84 237254; (mobile): +51 974 792711 or e-mail: info@tanagertours.com web: http://www.tanagertours.com/

Terrasenses is a responsible travel company in Ecuador. Terrasenses offers ethical and environmentally friendly excursions in Ecuador: cultural, adventure, birdwatching, scientific or conservational. During your trip, you will have the chance to meet scientific professionals, ecologists and passionate volunteers. Tours include small groups of two to ten travellers. Contact info@terrasenses.com or visit www.terrasenses.com

Tierra de Aves offers custom designed birding tours across Mexico from a morning's outing to directed searches for specific species such as rare or endemics birds. Special tours for bird photographers. Contact Manuel or Georgita through the web at www.tierradeaves.com

Tico Tours; Michael R. Boatwright, 177 Sugar Mill Drive, Amherst, VA 24521; Website http://tico-tours.net ; email info@tico-tours.net (destinations: Costa Rica)

Wild Travel Central America offers birdwatching and wildlife holidays in Costa Rica & the rest of Central America. Specialists in birdwatching holidays, neotropical photography and natural history tours providing customized programs according to your needs. E-mail: info@birdwatchingcentralamerica.com Tel: (506) 2591 6097 Address: Ciudad de Oro, Cartago, Costa Rica, Central America. Web site: www.birdwatchingcentralamerica.com