Travis Audubon partners with professional birding tour companies to provide interesting and enriching birding field trip experiences to hotspots around the world. All tours promoted here include a donation to Travis Audubon.

Past tours to Panama and Belize have had stellar reviews. You can be sure that a Travis Audubon international field trip is run in an environmentally sustainable manner. When possible, your field trip will include a chance to meet and interact with local conservation organizations and their supporters. You may even have an opportunity to participate in the American Birding Association’s Birder’s Exchange Program, being the courier for optical equipment that will be used by researchers, instructors and guides in areas of the world that are in need of it.

We invite you to join the following international field trips:

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours
Galapagos Islands Cruise, July 18-30, 2013

(Waved Albatrosses by Michael O’Brien.)

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours has generously offered to donate $500 to Travis Audubon for each person that registers for the Galapagos Islands Cruise, July 18-30, 2013, who identify themselves as having learned about the trip through Travis Audubon.

Experience the thrill of a Galapagos Islands cruise with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, one of the most trusted names in nature tourism. We’ll visit all the major islands and seek the iconic wildlife for which the Galapagos are so famous including giant tortoise, marine iguanas, lava lizards, Flightless Cormorants, Waved Albatross, Galapagos Penguins, and Darwin’s Finches. Travel will be aboard Isabela II, one of the most comfortable cruise ships available in the islands.

This trip will be led by Michael O’Brien and Louise Zemaitis, in addition to an excellent Galapagos staff. Fee is $7,695 in double occupancy from Quito. Register before February 1, 2013 and receive a $500 discount.

For more information, or to register, please visit the website of Victor Emanuel Nature Tours; call 800-328-VENT; or email: info@ventbird.com.

JB Journeys
Birding Trinidad and Tobago, November 30 – December 9, 2013

(Rufous-tailed Jacamar by Mike’s Birds via Wikimedia.)

Based at world-renowned Asa Wright Nature Centre and Lodge, a 200-acre wildlife sanctuary in Trinidad’s rainforested Northern Ridge, and at the secluded Cuffie River Lodge on Tobago’s beautiful mountain rainforest, you will visit several unique natural areas on both islands. Travis Audubon’s Laurie Foss will lead this tropical trip, along with local naturalists guides.

Target birds include Oilbirds, Scarlet Ibis, Purple Honeycreeper, Tufted Coquette, Ruby Topaz Hummingbird, Tropical Screech Owl, Trinidad Motmot, and Beared Bellbird. And that’s just on Trinidad! On Tobago, look for Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Great Black-Hawk, Yellow-headed Caracara, and Common Potoo.

For more information and to register, please visit the JB Journeys website.

This itinerary includes a donation to Travis Audubon. Additionally, JB Journeys donates to Travis Audubon for every booking made by a TAS member, group, or individual.