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EET 2020 Catalogue 2020 Travel Schedule Eagle-Eye Tours Travel with Vision CONTENTS Hello, Traveller! Welcome to another year of birding and wildlife We offer tours for the experienced birder as well tours. Eagle-Eye Tours was born from a love of birding as the nature enthusiast. You may join us on a and travel. We have travelled to all the continents land tour in Texas or a cruise to the Arctic, or you seeing an incredible array of birds and other amazing may prefer to go sailing on the beautiful coast of wildlife and have many great stories to tell. British Columbia. The following icons might be These experiences create the fabric of adventure. A helpful to find the tours of your preference. surprise Ross’s Gull at the floe edge, a well woven tale New Tours for 2020 NEW from Iceland, a quiet float through the mangroves, or a myriad of hummingbirds at the feeders. We feel privileged Southeast Arizona to share them all. Why not join us to add to your story? Baffin Island: Walrus & Bowheads Taiwan Inside you will see that we continue to offer small Tanzania group tours with experienced leaders to spectacular Texas Spring Migration & Hill Country destinations around the globe. We hope you will join us on one of our extraordinary tours! Western India & the Himalayas Happy travels, Tranquilo Tours T Cam Gillies and the Eagle-Eye Team Are you looking for tours that offer great birding while minimizing how often you change locations? Our Tranquilo tours are a perfect Read Reviews Online choice. We have designed each tour to stay at Want to see what our customers are saying only one or two great locations. That means about our tours? Visit us online to read less packing and travel, more birding, and more reviews collected by Trustpilot. opportunity to relax on the veranda, watching feeders if you need a little down time. Join us on Social Media Visit www.facebook.com/eagleeyetours for photos Wildlife Tours from recent tours, discussions, news and our latest We have highlighted some our tours that are promotions. You can also find us on: Instagram! focused on great wildlife sightings beyond birds. We will still look at the birds, but the focus is on other great wildlife. Narwhal, walrus, bears, orca and much more, these are exciting tours! Expedition Cruises Our expedition cruises are an opportunity to explore some of the world’s most intriguing and beautiful places in the intimate setting of a small and comfortable ship. Sailing Join us on an expedition yacht as we sail through stunning landscapes in search of spectacular wildlife and cultural experiences. CONTENTS NORTH AMERICA MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN 9 Alberta Birds & Dinosaurs 20 Belize & Tikal 6 Baffin Island Floe Edge 19 Central Mexico 6 Baffin Island Walrus & Bowheads 18 Costa Rica Sampler 46 British Columbia Sailing 18 Costa Rica 9 Canadian Rockies 21 Cuba 7 Chuchill Belugas, Bears & Birds 23 Panama 40 Expedition Cruises 21 Puerto Rico 15 Florida 19 Southern Mexico 15 Hawaii 22 Trinidad & Tobago 7 High Arctic & NWT 11 Manitoba Owls AUSTRALASIA & SOUTH PACIFIC 13 New Brunswick & Grand Manan 31 Eastern Australia 13 Newfoundland 30 New Zealand 12 Point Pelee & Algonquin Park 31 Tropical Australia 11 Quebec in Fall 31 Tasmania 10 Saskatchewan Whooping Cranes 16 South Texas ASIA 14 Southeast Arizona 32 Cambodia & South Vietnam 15 Texas Spring Migration 33 Taiwan 8 Ultimate British Columbia 33 Western India & Himalayas SOUTH AMERICA EUROPE 26 Colombia 29 England Birds & Gardens: Southeast 24 Guyana 28 Spain 25 Patagonia Wildlife Safari 27 Southern Ecuador AFRICA 34 Namibia & Botswana 35 Tanzania ANTARTICA Cover: Keel-billed Toucan Inside Cover: Long-billed Curlew 36 Antarctica ABOUT EAGLE-EYE TOURS A Typical Day on our Birding Tours Our land tours typically start early, to be out when birding is best. Sometimes we are out before breakfast for a quick search for a target bird or mammal. We head out by foot, car or boat to a choice area, forest or maybe a wetland, taking in the sights and sounds of the morning. We move along as a small group, making every effort to ensure that everyone gets to see the beautiful tanager, or majestic grizzly bear through the spotting scope. We might stop for that important cup of locally grown coffee before heading further down the road to where we saw that great bird building a nest last year. Lunches are Dinner in Brugge most often in the field, usually at a very good birding spot, with a cold drink or a cup of coffee. We have a chance to share stories and reflect on the morning adventure. After lunch we continue our search for great birds and mammals. Sometimes we return to our hotel in mid-afternoon for a rest. Over our evening meal, we meet as a group to record and discuss what we saw and review the plans for the coming day. Some evenings we may head back out for a night tour to experience the nocturnal world of owls, potoos, frogs and much more. Red-eyed tree frog, Costa Rica © Steve Ogle Costa Rica tour © Steve Ogle 2 Accommodations & Transportation Typically, our land tours stay in modern, comfortable hotels and in some locations we stay in beautiful lodges in the forest with trails out the back door. These amazing settings are often a highlight of the tour. In other cases, in order to get to the best locations for birding or wildlife viewing, we may be far away from a modern hotel and the ‘best room in town’ may be more basic. In a few cases, we even stay in tents for the full wilderness experience! For each tour, we have identified the level of accommodation in the tour summary. If you have Asa Wright any questions about accommodation on a tour, please feel free to ask and we can give you more specifics. When traveling between birding locations, typically we travel in comfortable vans, often with local drivers who are familiar with the roads and destinations. Usually, there is only one vehicle, as the sizes of our groups are typically small, but occasionally there will be two vehicles that keep in contact with each other. In some tours, we use airplane flights to cover large distances and in a few cases, we travel by boat, often with fantastic scenery and wildlife watching along the way! Wetland cruise © Steve Ogle Tour group size We believe that small groups are essential for a high quality and enjoyable experience. Unless otherwise noted, our land tour groups have a single leader with 4 to 8 people and two leaders with 9 to 12 people. Driver and tour bus, Costa Rica © Steve Ogle Spain 2019 Tour © Pablo Perez Martinez Costa Rica Tour © Cam Gillies Learn more online at www.eagle-eye.com 3 Committed to Conservation Our Guides We believe it is important to give back to help Our guides are true expert birders and naturalists, they conserve the birds and other wildlife that we so know the wildlife, local birds, ecology, culture and enjoy. To this end, we donate to organizations history of your destination exceptionally well. They working on conservation of birds or their habitat. will guide you to all those hidden treasures to be found Whether it is conserving endangered habitat, off the beaten path. But on top of that they are all supporting action on climate change or helping exceptional people. They are kind and patient, eager stop the spread of invasive species, we are striving to share their knowledge and they will do their best to help the conservation of birds worldwide. to make sure that everyone got to see the target bird in the midst of the dense forest. They go out of their Responsible travel is important to us. Whenever way to make sure that your experience is exceptional. possible we step off the beaten path to visit the locally owned establishments and hire local guides Our Office Staff to bring greater benefit to local communities. We have an amazing team of office staff that We have a long-standing partnership with Bird works year-round to look after all the logistical Studies Canada where we offer the Grand Prize arrangement for our tours. They book all the for their national Great Canadian Birdathon. A accommodations, line up transportation, and portion of the revenue from this year’s Cuba tour arrange for meals and local excursions so that our will be donated to Bird Studies Canada. BSC guides are free to do what they do best, look for In addition, we have joined an elite group of wildlife and natural wonders and look after you! businesses as a member of 1% for the Planet. We donate one percent of our sales to non-profits working toward environmental conservation. Carbon Offsets We have been committed to operating carbon- neutral since 2006. This means we pay to offset all the carbon from our operations, including flights, ship use, ground transportation and electricity used in our office. Carbonfund.org uses the money to make renewable energy projects around the world the choice for utilities by making them price competitive with fossil fuel projects. Ernesto Carman pointing out birds © Cam Gillies 4 What our Customers Say I would do it again We recommend them “This was my first birding trip. I felt that I saw “We went on a 10-day birding tour of Belize and learned a great deal more than if had I gone and Guatemala with Eagle-Eye Tours and had on my own. We were 3 generations in one family.
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