Birding Experience – Birdwatching travel agency in South America

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Birding Experience, designs various ornithological trips throughout South America. Explore the richest birdwatching regions of the world, accompanied by our passionate guides, to discover an extraordinary and varied avifauna.

Consult our scheduled departures or organize a customized birding tour for an absolute immersion in the world of birds while supporting many local conservation initiatives. Our team of specialists and enthusiasts will help you design your dream birding trip.

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To each his own journey

Birding
tours

Considered by many to be the promised land of birders, the South American continent, home to over 33% of the world's birdlife, is full of birding opportunities. Our tailor-made small group tours are geared towards both the hard core birder…

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Photo
and bird watching tours

These photographic tours and workshops are designed and run by our expert photographers to maximise the time available for bird photography and also to improve the techniques used in the field.

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Scientific
tours among birds

What would conservation be without science? Who are the local actors of these two essential dynamics for nature? Join us to meet the men and women who are trying to better understand the ecological and biological dynamics of neotropical ecosystems.…

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To each his own destination

3 good reasons to travel with Birding Experience

Tailor made

We design any type of itinerary according to your interests, your needs, your pace, your budget and the number and type of participants.

In small groups

Our groups are generally limited to 8 participants, to respect the sites and offer you a better experience by facilitating observation of the species.

Specialized guides

Our trips are accompanied by specialized and passionate multilingual guides but also include for some sites the best local guides, to help local development.

Find out more about our specialised transport service

If you are used to going birdwatching alone or in a small group, we can still help you. In addition to these organised birding trips, Birding Experience offers transport services adapted to birdwatching, with or without a driver. Our knowledge of the terrain and the pace of this type of trip will be a great asset to ensure that you don’t miss a beat.

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Our travelers testify

Jean-Luc DesGranges

Did the trip: On both sides of the Andes

As an avid nature traveler (as well as a biodiversity researcher retired from the Canadian Wildlife Service), I'd like to personally congratulate you on your outstanding tour-operating skills. I was personally impressed by your professionalism during a tour led by an outstanding connoisseur of nature and Andean birds in Ecuador.…

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Paul Budde & Howard Towle

Did the trip: From Santa Marta to Perija

Thank you and your home office team for a wonderful trip to northern Colombia!

We were very successful at finding almost all of the reasonably expected endemics and near endemics of northeastern Colombia. While many of the species (tapaculos, antpittas, many of the spinetials, the Thrush-Tanager) are skulky and love…

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Ghislaine & Gui Hamelin

Did a tailor made trip based on: Tumbesian endemics and southern Andes

Dear Xavier,

We spent two extraordinary weeks, thanks to your attentiveness, your kindness and your phenomenal knowledge of birds and the environment.

Thank you, Xavier.

December 2023 - Ghislaine and Gui Hamelin - Ornithology trip - Ecuador

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Johan Konsman

Did a tailor made trip based on: From Chocó to Yasuni

Nature Experience made all our wildlife dreams come true. Our contact person was Marlies Bossuyt, and nothing was too much trouble for her to help/advise/accommodate us. She did this not only very skillfully but also with a lot of love and passion. When she thought she didn't know something (

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Olivier Langrand
Did a tailor made trip based on: From Chocó to Yasuni
Dear Xavier,

We are all back and some of us have already left for new destinations. Michel and Jeanne arrived late last night in Carpentras, Fanja and Tahiry have been in Chicago since this morning and Sariaka is in Montreal since Sunday. As for me, I am in Bogota since…
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Michel Gunther
Did a tailor made trip based on: From Chocó to Yasuni
Good evening Xavier,
Thank you for the latest bird lists.
I got a copy of Olivier's messages and of course I totally agree with what he wrote to you. We all loved doing this quality tour with you, even Jeanne for whom the birds were, before this Andean…
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BirdLife Switzerland
Did a tailor made trip based on: From Chocó to Yasuni
Many thanks for this excellent collaboration, certainly not the last one?

Francois Turrian - President Birdlife Switzerland.

What a beautiful discovery of a magnificently colored world. Thank you for sharing it with us with humor and competence. Congratulations again and good luck for you and yours.

Patrice Jichlinski- Switzerland.
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Chantal Picard

Xavier, I thank you for all the preparation that you brought to our "gang" for this trip. I love to travel when you are the one who receives us. I know that I will eat very well and that I will sleep in beautiful beds or else on "extra" sites.…
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Martine Laporte
Did the trip: Birds from the end of the world
Dear Xavier. Thank you for taking care of us. I recognize your quality, your sense of humor and your availability. Thank you once again.
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Catherine & Patrick Guyomard
Did a tailor made trip based on: From Santa Marta to Perija
How did you discover Birding Experience?

"This is our third trip with Nature Experience (2 with Ecuador Experience and this one with Birding Experience). The first 2 in Ecuador in 2009 and 2011."

What did you learn from your trip to Colombia? If you'd like to share a memory,…
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