Birdfinders
Tour companyMultinationalInternational
About
Birdfinders is a UK-based birdwatching holiday company founded in 1993 by Vaughan Ashby and run today by Vaughan and Svetlana Ashby from their office in Cheselbourne, Dorset. The company describes itself as "run by birders for birders" and has built one of Britain's largest small-group tour programmes.
Their catalogue spans every major birding region, with regular departures across the Western Palearctic, Asia, Africa, Australasia, North America and the Neotropics. The Costa Rica tour is a long-standing fixture covering the country's classic mix of Caribbean and Pacific slopes, Talamanca highlands and Osa Peninsula lowlands.
Countries
United KingdomCosta RicaBrazilChilePeruKenyaGhanaChinaIndiaBhutanThailandMadagascarIsraelCyprusEgyptIranAzerbaijanKazakhstanUzbekistanUAEIndonesiaJamaicaJapanLaosCambodiaGreeceUnited StatesMontserratMoroccoNepalPanamaPhilippinesSaudi ArabiaSenegalSeychellesSolomon IslandsSri LankaSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesTaiwanUnited Arab EmiratesWestern Sahara
Languages
English
Areas covered
- Hokkaido
- Kyushu
- Tien Shan
- Lesser Sundas
- Lesvos
- Michigan
- Lesser Antilles
- Nagaland
- Assam
- Mishmi Hills
- Koshi Tappu
- Chitwan
- Ohio
- Luzon
- Bohol
- Palawan
- Mahé
- Praslin
- Cousin
- La Digue
- Lanyu Island
- Okinawa
- Texas
- Rio Grande Valley
- Edwards Plateau
- High Island
- UAE mountains
- UAE deserts
- Khor Kalba
- Bukhara
- Samarkand
- Kyzylkum Desert
- West Papua
- Aousserd
- Sahara Desert
- Yunnan
Notable guides
- Vaughan Ashby· Founder and director
- Svetlana Ashby· Director