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!
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Birdfinders' Shop
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Birdfinders now has a shop where we'll be selling bird and birding related items. Check it out regularly to see what's on offer. |
The Western Palearctic
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Do you keep a western Palearctic list? Birdfinders runs 33 tours to western Palearctic countries (based on the definition of the WP in the upcoming Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds by Shirihai and Svensson), and we're keen to help your WP list increase. Join us on one of our many tours to both the core of the region and the far edges and enjoy the diversity of birds and habitats this region offers. |
Portugal – a new tour for 2012
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If you're a keen western Palearctic lister, or just want a great value trip to southern Europe, this new tour to Portugal is for you. We aim to find Rüppell's Griffon plus six category C exotics, all countable in the western Palearctic! |
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
