Wild Images, a division of Birdquest, specializes in wildlife photographic tours worldwide. Wild Images' exciting programme of tours includes both group and individual departures, and features such destinations as Hungary, Spitsbergen, Tanzania (Serengeti & Ngorongoro), India, Japan, Baja California, the Galapagos, Antarctica, South Georgia & The Falklands and the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand & Australia. Click on the picture above to visit the Wild Images website.
Ocean Adventures, a division of Birdquest, specializes in wildlife-orientated expedition cruises all over the world. As well as our Birdquest/Ocean Adventures group trips, there are many cruises available for individual bookings. These feature Spitsbergen, Greenland, Iceland, the Scottish Islands, Siberia (including the Kurils, Commanders, Kamchatka, Chukotka and the Bering Strait), Antarctica, South Georgia, the Falklands, the South Atlantic Islands, the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand & Australia, the Western Pacific and many other venues. Click on the picture above to visit the Ocean Adventures website.
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'EASY' SICHUAN
Wednesday 11th May - Monday 30th May 2005
Mark Van Beirs
Birdquest’s first ‘Easy’ tour to Sichuan went without a hitch and we really managed to see a remarkable proportion of Chinese endemics and Sino-Himalayan specialities with just a little bit of physical effort. We travelled through the breath-taking landscapes of Sichuan, enjoyed very tasty food and recorded 275 species of birds. Families that were especially well represented include pheasants and partridges (12 species seen and two more heard), robins, chats and thrushes (29 species), warblers (27 species) and babblers (31 species, including eight species of parrotbills). The Bird of the Trip was without any doubt the fabulous Lady Amherst’s Pheasant that we saw so well in its bamboo-choked forest. Other highlights included Severtzov’s Grouse, Snow Partridge, Tibetan Snowcock, Blood Pheasant, Temminck’s Tragopan, White Eared and Blue Eared Pheasants, Black-necked Crane, White-tailed Rubythroat, Rufous-headed Robin, Firethroat, Grandala, Severtzov’s Tit-Warbler, Three-toed, Grey-hooded and Fulvous Parrotbills, Sukatschev’s, Giant and Red-winged Laughingthrushes, Black-browed, White-browed and Père David’s Tits, Przevalski’s Nuthatch, Sichuan Jay and Hume’s Groundpecker. Quality mammals included Alpine Musk Deer and Chinese Goral.
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Birdquest Ltd is Registered in England, Company No. 01568270. The address of our registered office is Two Jays, Kemple End, Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 9QY
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