Dec 15. Carpish Biodiversity workshop in Carpish Jan 10-20. Great for birds and orchids. Your participation is supporting the local community and training local guides. Cost only 1200 US$.

Dec 11. New Blog on this page. Check  http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com/birdingperu/blog Kolibri Expeditions takes action against stolen birding gear importing Vortex quality binoculars.

Oct 27. WINTER SALE!!!! All trips in Peru, except Lima trips, have 20% discount on the land part (not the flights) between November 2008 and May 2009, as long as the trip has been booked with a deposit prior to Dec 31. The only black out period is the Easter week (April 4-12, 2009).

Oct 21. All of a sudden there is a confirmed German speaking group to Oxapampa, Pozuzo, Villa Rica and Satipo road, ending with Machu Picchu and Abra Malaga and a pelagic. Some 500 species are possible on this 17 day trip starting on Nov 1 in Lima. Also the confirmed Gran Central Peru starting on Oct 25. You may join on Nov 7 for the second part if you like.

Oct 14. Note also that there is a new Colombia itinerary in plan for January a confirmed SE Brazil trip in the end of January and a Venezuela trip during most of February. The Colombia and Venezuela itineraries are being re-written at this point to give more time for endemics.

Oct 14. Finally uploaded new Guyana/Roraima/Surinam itinerary. With the aim to clean the region of the endemics and special birds including Red Siskin. Trip will run in the beginning of March. It is possible for the non hard core to take just the first week in Guyana and add an expedition for Harpy Eagle and Jaguar down one of the rivers with jungle adventurer Duane deFreitas or his son.

Sep 27. New North Peru itineraries featuring Tumbes pelagic and Yellow-browed Toucanet trek. Check it out in the calendar of Nov 23 and Dec 6.

Sep 26. Megapelagic. Nov 18-22. This shall be the most exciting seabirding for the entire year, both for birds and for cetaceans. See this link.

August 8. Posted new trip reports for Argentina and Chile on the trip report page from our big trip with Fabrice Schmitt as guide in 2006. There are also a few trips posted in the calendar for later this year. Check them out!

August 7. The Amigos program will be running back to back from October and with fixed price from 1 pax. This is a great chance for anyone wanting to try for a big day of a lifetime. We should come close to 300 in our first tries, and probably better and better as these programs evolve.

July 12. Machu Picchu and Manu for disabled. Finally a trip suitable for the poor walkers. OK, wheel-chair will still be a bit challanging but not impossible...still the trip is mainly designed for a good friend who has a disk-back problem, and needs a stroller to walk. We do have space for 3-4 more people on this trip (but not more!!). Next departure: August 31.

July 10. Check out our new budget Manu at Community Lodges. Kolibri Expeditions is proud to give support to the communities of the Amarakaeri Communal reserve by devloping birding at the their community lodges in the Manu basin. Great price! Next scheduled departure Aug 16 and Oct 22, but you can be certain there shall be more departures very soon.

June 19. New pelagic in the North on June 24!
We are looking to develop a pelagic trip in Northern Peru, to be combined with our Tumbes and Northern Peru program. On June 24 we shall do the first test from Punta Sal. Do you need Galapagos Petrel? There are still vacancies!

June 10. Check out our new Amigos program. Outstanding place in the Peruvian rainforest with a 7m Anaconda staked out and a sighting of Tapir on the trails. Good trails, electric light and even internet....(I am updating the web-page right now from Amigos Research Station). In only four days here we had 8 species of monkeys including Emperor Tamarins and Monk Saki monkeys.

April 20. Dates changed to May 31-June 5 for Pampas del Heath Expedition to celebrate our 10th Anniversary. For the Peru lister! Also scouting of Amigos Research Center June 6-11. Practically all SE Peru lowland specialties can be found here including Long-crested Pygmy-Tyrant, Black-faced Cotinga, Rufous-fronted Ant-thrush and Peruvian Recurvebill, as well as Emperor Tamarin. Join us!

April 19. Satipo road and Carpish goes to Mindo started today from Lima. We also invited four members from Carpish to come on this trip, together with 3 community leaders from Satipo road. Donations are still welcome! Check http://www.birdingperu.com/blogs/blog.asp?idblog=11 to see how it works.

March 30. Price set for Amigos and Heath. 1000 US per trip including two flights regardless of number of punters. Combined 1830 US$. Both trips now uploaded and confirmed in calendar.

March 21: Bug in booking function fixed. Now you can use Mozilla Firefox to make your reservation on line.