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Welcome to Birdfinders, one of Britain's most successful birdwatching holiday companies: run by birders for birders. We've been in business since 1993 and have been growing and adding to our birdwatching tours list every year since. We offer exceptional value birdwatching holidays to locations around the world, so stop wishing, start packing!


Israel spring migration

Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse

Our regular and very popular trip to Israel in springtime is filling up fast. The first tour is full and space on the second is limited. Join us on this superb tour for a chance to see numerous larks, warblers, wagtails, storks, waders, raptors and much more during this peak migration time.

China in Spring – only two places left

Korean Flycatcher

Our popular trip to Beijing, Beidaihe and Happy Island in China for east Asian spring migration has just two places left. Join us on this fantastic tour for a chance to see a mouth-watering selection of far-eastern birds. It's migration time so who knows what will turn up amongst the superb selection of regulars.


Birdfinders was founded by Vaughan Ashby in 1993 and has been growing ever since. Recent years have seen amazing growth despite the world economic downturn. We run excellent value and well priced tours to locations around the world and get a lot of repeat business from satisfied customers as well as new customers joining us after they discover what good value Birdfinders is and how good and bird-filled our tours are.

With Birdfinders you get:

At Birdfinders we cater to all levels of ability and enthusiasm is more important than knowledge as our experienced leaders are always on hand to assist. Although all of our birdwatching holidays and birdwatching tours are designed specifically for finding birds, we stop wherever possible for other forms of wildlife and previous tour participants have been able to combine birds with their interests in mammals, butterflies, plants, insects etc. Furthermore, whilst the very nature of birdwatching dictates some early-morning starts to ensure that we see as many species as possible, we can frequently arrange for participants to take time off to relax or sightsee, providing that does not conflict with the itinerary of the tour.

All participants in Birdfinders tours will receive, in advance of the tour, a copy of a previous tour report (where available) or, a few weeks after returning, a copy of the current tour report (if a new tour). To keep costs down tour reports are not originated every year. However, currently we have over 145 tour reports, in pdf format, available on our website. We also have a list of photos from our tours – now over 3000 images!

Participants also receive in advance a blank daily bird checklist for the tour, together with an information letter detailing helpful advice such as health requirements, what to bring, recommended reading, etc. At the end of each tour, a feedback form is provided so that tours can constantly be improved.

We can also arrange customised tours to selected countries. See our Custom Tours page or contact us. Also, keep an eye on our Future Tours page to see where we're planning on going to next.

We look forward to welcoming you on one of our tours in the near future.

Vaughan and Svetlana Ashby and the Birdfinders team


Ornithological Society of the Middle East logo

Birdfinders is now a Corporate Member of OSME: the Ornithological Society of the Middle East. Nine of our tours visit countries in the OSME region: Egypt, Israel in Spring, Israel in Autumn, Georgia, Turkey, Brown Fish-owl in Turkey, Kazakhstan, UAE and Kuwait. Join Birdfinders on one of our bird-filled tours in this exciting region.


African Bird Club logo

Birdfinders is pleased to be a Corporate Sponsor of the African Bird Club. Birdfinders runs eight tours to the African continent plus to islands off the African coast: Maderia and The Canaries. Join Birdfinders on one of our superb trips to this amazing continent.


Help save the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's rarest birds, by following this link to Birdlife International. Birdfinders runs a tour to Southern Thailand to visit one of the few wintering sites of this rare and sought-after bird and we are delighted to help with this appeal.

Birdfinders and our clients have now contributed over £18000 to the World Land Trust for environmental projects. This money has gone towards the preservation of species like the Jocotoco Antpitta in Ecuador. Further examples of the kind of projects we are helping with can be found on the World Land Trust website carbonbalanced.org. A huge thank you to all our clients and leaders for helping with these projects and we will continue to keep up the good work. Click here for the cost of helping to support this important work.

We are pleased to say that Birdfinders office now produces its own electricity as part of our drive to become carbon neutral. Over the years, we have gradually ensured that we use less of the Earth's valuable resources by recycling paper, cardboard, glass, metals, polythene, plastic, batteries and printer cartridges, introducing low-energy light bulbs and dual flush toilets, changing appliances to those that are 'A' rated with the lowest energy consumption, renewing double glazing to the highest rated, increasing loft insulation and catching 1500 litres of rainwater to water our gardens. Now we have added 16 photovoltaic panels to our roof to produce up to 4kw of electricity per hour. During the first week of operation in rather mixed weather conditions with few prolonged periods of sunshine, we produced an amazing 111.8kw of electricity compared with our normal usage over this period of 77kw of electricity means that we have returned 34.8kw of electricity to the National Grid! Of course, during the winter months we will produce less and use more electricity so we are not claiming to be carbon neutral but we are doing our best to get there. We will be investigating installing a wind turbine next!