Whether you want to spend a day birding along the South Coast, or to take in a more comprehensive six-to-eight day birding tour across the island, our tours are customized to your needs, travel dates, and group size.
29 ENDEMICS: A comprehensive six-day, island-wide birding adventure!
Our most popular, this six-day extensive tour was designed by our birding experts to see the maximum number of Jamaica’s endemics in the shortest time.
It is six full days of well-paced bird watching in an air-conditioned bus, and during your tour, we aim to see more than 100 species (including water birds) when the winter migrants are at their peak.
Tours are customised to birder requirements and may be arranged for private groups or can be open for couples or individuals to join. We also offer specialist photography tours.
Yellow-billed Parrot
This tour will take you across the island of Jamaica, to many spots that only our locals guides know, plus some of the all-time favourites like Ecclesdown Road and the Blue and John Crow Mountains.
Your birding adventure begins with your guide(s) picking you up from your accommodation to begin your birding adventure. During your tour, you'll visit various ecosystems, including lagoons, bird sanctuaries, forest reserves, woodlands, seashores and riversides.
Our past guests' favourites include the endangered Jamaican Blackbird, near-endangered Crested Quail Dove, Yellow-billed Parrot, Red-billed Streamertail, Mango Hummingbird, Jamaican Tody, Jamaican Spindalis, Orangequit, Jamaican Euphonia, Jamaican Elaenia, Jamaican Pewee, Olive-throated Parakeet, Northern Potoo, Rufous-tailed Flycatcher, Jamaican Woodpecker, Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo, Arrowhead Warbler, and the Greater Antillean Bullfinch and Jamaican Owl.
Other endemics seen on our tours include the Ring-tailed Pigeon, Black-billed Parrot, Jamaican Lizard Cuckoo, Blue Mountain Vireo, Vervain Hummingbird, Jamaican Becard, Yellow-shouldered Grassquit, Jamaican Crow, Rufous-throated Solitaire, Black-billed Streamertail Hummingbird, Jamaican Oriole, White-chinned Thrush, White-eyed Thrush, Red-tailed Hawk and many more.
After a full six days of birding, your tour concludes with transportation to the airport or another accommodation.
Our 6-day tour starts at $2,200 USD, per person.
Pricing includes shared room overnight accommodations, meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner), and transportation. Note the possibility of seasonal pricing fluctuations.
Bahama Mockingbird
Spotted Rail
Wanting more? Add two full days to your birding adventure!
Seasonally available, this 2-day tour extension brings you through first through dry limestone forest and scrub to locate a wide variety of endemics including the Bahama Mockingbird, Jamaican Tody, Jamaican Vireo, Jamaican Elaenia, Jamaican Lizard Cuckoo, plus migrant warblers. Shorebirds close by include resident Clapper Rail, White Ibis and winter visitors.
Then, explore morass, wetlands and mud flats to find very rare residents including the Spotted Rail and Yellow-breasted Crake, plus West Indian Whistling Duck, Masked Duck, Limpkin, Least Bittern, Purple Gallinule and many others. Migrants include Sora, Wilson’s Snipe, Great Blue Heron, Northern Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, Blue-Winged Teal, and often mixed flocks of hirundines. Good numbers of wintering warblers, waders and ducks are also present. Rarities in the migration periods can include Flamingo, American Avocet, Wilson’s and Red-necked Phalarope.
Our 2-day extension starts at $330 USD, per person.
Seasonal availability, please enquire. Pricing includes shared room overnight accommodations, meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner), and transportation. Note the possibility of seasonal pricing fluctuations.
SOUTH COAST ENDEMICS: A one-day walking tour in Bluefields, Westmoreland.
For those with limited time, or who are just getting into birding, we offer day-tours in Bluefields, one of Jamaica's Important Bird Areas (IBA), located in the parish of Westmoreland on the southwestern coast of Jamaica.
The IBA is 4,660ha (over 11,000 acres) and is one of the most scenic areas on the island. From the mountains to the sea, we are exceptionally fortunate at Bluefields to see a tremendous number of species of birds.
Of the 31 Jamaican endemic species, we have observed 22 in this area, plus a further 12 endemic sub-species and 9 Caribbean endemics.
The regular favourites seen on our day tour include the Jamaican Tody, Jamaican Oriole, Jamaican Spindalis, Orangequit, Jamaican Euphonia, Jamaican Elaenia, Jamaican Pewee, Olive-throated Parakeet, Northern Potoo (quite often seen at day time roost), Rufous-tailed Flycatcher, Jamaican Woodpecker, Arrowhead Warbler, White-eyed Thrush, Red-billed Streamertail, Vervain and Mango Hummingbirds.
Walking distances are around a mile, through easy forest and woodland tracks at elevation.
Our day-tour starts at US$105 per person, and includes lunch and refreshments.
Round-trip transportation available for additional fee from Negril, Montego Bay, Treasure Beach, Lucea, Black River, and Whitehouse.
Red-billed Streamertail
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