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Naturalist Journeys & Caligo Ventures Naturalist Journeys & Caligo Ventures © Willow Ptarmigan, Greg Smith News Vol. 2 Ed. 1 Cruises: NEW! Caribbean Endemics: This Thanksgiving: Join Us Down Under! Colombia: Capture great images of Tours and Independent Experience world-class The Hottest New Birding Trinidad’s vibrant species. Birding Ventures to five scenery in New Zealand. Destination! Colombia Join a photography tour or endemic-rich islands! Enjoy great food and ranks #1 for most bird hire an expert photo guide Discover Puerto Rico, wine, and find endemic species on Earth. We offer at the Asa Wright Nature Jamaica, the Dominican birds with expert guides. two tours to safe and Centre (AWNC). (p. 13) Republic, St. Vincent, and Unforgettable! (p. 4) exciting areas! (p. 9) Cuba. (pp. 7, 9) Awaken your inner Try something different! explorer! This year we Join a Caligo Tour at offer four different wildlife Trinidad’s AWNC and cruises to the Galapagos, Tobago’s Blue Waters Inn, the Amazon, Antarctica, a Ten-Day, Two-Island and the Sea of Cortez. Classic Tour with expert (pp. 1, 15) guides. (pp. 2, 3) Florida: Space Coast Festival Wild Amazon: A River Cruise California: Birding & Wildflowers Jan. 17 – 24, 2016, from Orlando March 25 – April 3, 2016, from Lima April 7 – 16, 2016, from San Diego Experience the best birding that northeast and Journey into the unparalleled biodiversity Discover famous birding sites from the Pacific central Florida have to offer and take part in of the Amazon, home to 1,300+ bird species, to areas inland. Explore around San Diego, the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival 40,000 plant species, river dolphins, and cross the mountains to the Salton Sea, and in Titusville. Search for wintering manatees primates. We choose a high-water time head on to iconic desert parks like and bird from a barrier island. Explore the in order to reach the most remote areas. Anza-Borrego Desert, Joshua Tree, and St. Johns River estuary and Merritt Island. Death Valley. Cross California’s southern Spot Barred Owl, Florida Scrub-Jay, Encounter rare wildlife from the tier in spring; this tour ends in Las Vegas. Bachman’s Sparrow, and Red-cockaded luxury of your riverboat. Explore intriguing Woodpecker in lush southern pine forests. tributaries of the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve. Spot See 200+ bird species, including migrant and Enjoy a mix of Festival field trips and nearly a dozen primate species and an array of resident seabirds, shorebirds, waterfowl, workshops, plus private outings with guide, amazing birds, including macaws, Hoatzin, raptors, and songbirds; view whales, Harbor Dan Donaldson. Horned Screamer, and Great Tinamou. Seal, California Sea Lion, and Desert Bighorn. Joshua Trees, other yuccas, and cacti are in full ©Photos: Pg. 1: La Estrella Amazonica, International Discover riverbank villages, where, bloom. Expeditions; Masked Cardinal, Roger Neckles (RN); under the guidance of our naturalists, you are Palmchat, Adrian Binns; Ridgeway’s Hawk, Rafael Campos-Rameriz (RCR); Maori Mask, Bud Ferguson greeted like family and meet with a Shaman. Expert birder and naturalist, Mark Smith, (BF); Andean Emerald, Peg Abbott (PA); Royal Tern, PA; Blue-and-yellow Macaw, (PA); White-headed Try kayaking and visit a local market. leads our NEW California tour. Woodpecker, Steve Wolfe (SW); California Quail, SW. www.naturalistjourneys.com - www.caligo.com - 800.426.7781 1 NJ Fall 2015 Newsletter.indd 1 9/7/2015 10:52:03 AM N A T U R A L I S T J O U R N E Y S & C A L I G O V E N T U R E S The Asa Wright Nature Centre © Copper-rumped Hummingbird, Buck Snelson Dressing Up the Old Lady Top-Rate Guides COMING SOON! Asa Wright’s former plantation home is Our Centre naturalists and birding guides Join us and join in. 100 years old, and she requires care to are experts. The Big Sit! AWNC maintain her health and shine. This past with Martyn Kenefick, T&T field guide Author year, she has had a new roof, been They also love what they do. This Saturday, October 10 painted inside and out, and has had September, our naturalists and guides 3rd Annual BIOBLITZ her gorgeous wood floors treated and participate in a week-long, Charlotteville, Tobago October 24 - 25 polished. Most recently, her famed professional development verandah has been shored up from training session conducted Festival of Lights Dwali, a Hindu Festival Celebrated by All below, ensuring her longevity. by the National Association for November, check for dates New cushions adorn the verandah’s Interpretation, and jointly funded by the furnishings, making AWNC’s world-class U.S. Embassy and the U.S.-based Friends Trinidad's Christmas Bird Count December, check for dates birdwatching even more comfortable. of Asa Wright. In addition to hands-on training for interpretive guides, there is Friends of AWNC USA. Join today, and your This summer, AWNC has selected bright a two-day session for Centre Hosts (all contribution will help support AWNC to: tropical linens to place on brand-new lodge staff: front desk, back office, dining • Protect surrounding tropical rainforests beds, so you can sleep comfortably. Our room, kitchen, housekeeping, security, and other critical habitats larger rooms now have a Queen and a and maintenance). We’re excited for the • Enable habitat enhancement Twin bed. Additionally, several rooms team building and professional • Engender scientific research have been painted, and staff members development opportunities • Operate the Centre have installed shelving and improved that this training offers, • Upgrade visitor facilities lighting throughout, handy for and for the polished • Provide education organizing field gear. In the coming experience it will offer our visitors. • Promote community conservation year, the Centre will start to refurbish USA Friends stay in touch through the rooms with more intensity; plans and As leaders in Trinidad’s ecotourism, monthly digital newsletter, The Bellbird. permits for plumbing and electricity are AWNC staff members have set up this underway. workshop so other local, nature-based Contact Caligo Ventures tour operators and community-based for information today! ecotourism organizations can take part in this Centre-hosted interactive 800.426.7781 · [email protected] ©Photos: Pg. 2: Ruby Topaz, Dodie Logue (DL); AWNC Guide, PA; Little Cuckoo, Dave Ramlal (DR). workshop. www.naturalistjourneys.com - www.caligo.com - 800.426.7781 2 NJ Fall 2015 Newsletter.indd 2 9/7/2015 10:52:15 AM N A T U R A L I S T J O U R N E Y S & C A L I G O V E N T U R E S Trinidad & Tobago © White-necked Jacobin, Buck Snelson Best of Trinidad Tour Caligo Ventures Tours Our Classic! Discover Trinidad, geologically a part of Caligo Ventures offers tours to Trinidad & Ten-Day, Two-Island Tours Tobago every month of the year. South America, where birders experience Available 2015 Dates: more species than on any other Oct. 16 – 25 AWNC & CUF Birding in Trinidad has been described as Caribbean island. Caligo Ventures, Nov. 6 – 15 AWNC & BWI the world’s best introduction to birding in the exclusive North American Nov. 21 – 30 AWNC & BWI the Tropics, and because our guides live Dec. 4 – 13 AWNC & CUF booking agent for Trinidad’s and work in Trinidad, they give you the Dec. 10 – 19 AWNC & BWI famed Asa Wright Nature Centre, local advantage. Our guides also know Dec. 30 – Jan. 8, 2016 AWNC & CUF will get you there. Plus, when you travel each step of the species’ life cycle and where to find them in any given season. with Caligo, you know that your travel Available 2016 Dates: Using local guides allows us to offer you benefits conservation; funds from your Jan. 9 – 18 AWNC & BWI excellent pricing and value as you enjoy a visit directly support the education and Jan. 15 – 24 AWNC & CUF hassle-free vacation. conservation mission of the non-profit Jan. 28 – Feb. 6 AWNC & BWI Feb. 16 – 25 AWNC & CUF AWNC. For over 40 years, the Centre’s Our Classic Ten-Day, Two-Island Tour Feb. 19 – 28 AWNC & BWI staff have proudly shared their island explores both Trinidad and Tobago, Feb. 26 – March 6 AWNC & CUF culture and hospitality while promoting while our eight-day Best of Trinidad March 4 – 13 AWNC & BWI nature. tour includes a second lodge on Trinidad’s March 11 – 20 AWNC & CUF scenic northeast coast, with a great place March 26 – April 4 AWNC & BWI to see the endemic Trinidad Piping-Guan. Join us for an adventure to Trinidad! April 8 – 17 AWNC & CUF On our longer option, choose lodgings on And more! Turtle Season starts April 1. Tobago at the beachside Blue Waters Inn Best of Trinidad Tours 2015: (BWI), or surround yourself Check caligo.com for details. Oct. 22 – 29, Nov. 12 – 19, and by forest at the intimate, Tours Include: Lodgings, meals, airport Dec. 21 – 29 (Christmas Tour) 10-room Cuffie River transfers, inter-island flights, expert-guided Nature Retreat (CUF). outings, early-morning bird viewing from the Best of Trinidad Tours 2016: Find details and full itineraries online. verandah with guides, evening programs, and Jan. 21 – 28, Feb. 5 – 12, March 25 – 31, more. April 5 – 12, May 12 – 19, and more! Trinidad is also a great gateway to Tour prices vary by season, starting at $1995. Guyana, and these trips pair well with Our Best of Trinidad tour pricing a visit to St. Vincent to see its magnificent ©Photos: Pg. 3: Female Crimson-crested Woodpecker, Mike Boyce (MB); Scarlet Ibis at Sunset, Buck Snelson (BS); varies by season, starting at $1695. parrot. Female Purple Honeycreeper, BS. www.naturalistjourneys.com - www.caligo.com - 800.426.7781 3 NJ Fall 2015 Newsletter.indd 3 9/7/2015 10:52:26 AM N A T U R A L I S T J O U R N E Y S & C A L I G O V E N T U R E S Exceptional Journeys © Bengal Tigers, Avigit Sarkhel Nature of New Zealand India: Birds, Tigers, Taj! South India & Kanha NP Jan.
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