Wildlife guide
This wildlife travel guide is meant to be like a trailer for the new Attenborough series. Because we also have individual travel guides for more specific wildlife holidays, such as our safaris, bear watching and whale watching.
Bird watching holidays travel guide
Meet a good birding guide and you realise that the image of birders as people who are only driven by one thing in life, to sight a certain species, is unfounded. By going on a bird watching holiday, you are merely opting for an intensive wildlife experience that stretches you beyond the likes of a mainstream safari. There is something magical about adjusting your ears and eyes to birdlife on holiday. It gives you a completely new perspective. In Trinidad and Tobago, for example, you can bliss out on the beach all day. But with a birding expert, you will also watch the skies fill with scarlet ibis at dusk. You can hike Ethiopia’s magnificent Bale Mountains but, do so with a birding expert, and the skies become a whole new landscape in their own right. A sort of avian arcadia. And there are many to be found. You just need to keep looking up.
Birding guides are like calming elders. They generously share their wisdom not only about birds, but about local folklore, landscape, life and the universe. A bird’s eye view of life in fact. ![]()
Bird watching is/isn't
Bird watching holidays are...
the best way to find the secret, most tranquil spots of any country. Expert guides have the eagle eye and are as wise as owls.
Bird watching holiday aren’t….
just about birds. You also have tigers in India, leopard in Sri Lanka, turtles in Tobago and wolves in Ethiopia.
Our Bird watching Holidays
Falkland Islands wildlife tour
10 day Falklands birds and wildlife adventure
From
£3382 to £4133
10 days
ex flights
Ethiopia birdwatching holiday in Bale Mountains
Discover Ethiopia's vast array of unusual birds
From
£1975
10 days
ex flights
Sri Lanka birding & cultural tour
Top tour for birding, wildlife and culture of Sri Lanka.
From
US $1700
14 days
ex flights
Culture and birding holiday in Uganda
Experience the wildlife and birding in Uganda
From
US $6410
19 days
ex flights
Bird watching short break to Hungary
Visit Bukk National Park with a birding specialist
From
£675
4 days
ex flights
Bird watching holiday in Tobago
Spectacular bird watching in the Caribbean
From
£1435 to £2443
8 days
ex flights
Travel Team
If you'd like to chat about Bird watching or need help finding a holiday to suit you we're very happy to help.
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bird watching holiday
Vivianne McGrath, founder of our leading bird watching holidays supplier, MotMot:
"At dusk, the whole sky at Caroni Swamp in Trinidad turns red with hundreds of scarlet ibis. It is almost like a ballet, coming in from different directions, then swirling around, and roosting on trees – it just takes your breath away."
"At dusk, the whole sky at Caroni Swamp in Trinidad turns red with hundreds of scarlet ibis. It is almost like a ballet, coming in from different directions, then swirling around, and roosting on trees – it just takes your breath away."
More about Bird watching
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Our map and highlights have plenty of information on where to go bird watching, as well as travel advice. Will it be Sri Lanka, Saint Lucia, Hungary or Ethiopia?
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