Are you a birder? Do you like to travel to see birds? If so, this should be of interest to you.
My name is Gunnar Engblom. I live in Peru and I own a company called Kolibri Expeditions. I used to send you Peru Birding News some years ago, before there was email services like the one I use now from AWeber.
I confess, I had collected birder emails from all over the net, and while this practice is frowned upon, my twice yearly emails were right on target. They were about birds, and they were about topics that should be of interest to any birder. There was usually lots of bird conservation news from Peru and elsewhere, and some personal thoughts and ideas. These emails were very popular. They were far from your normal sales pitch emails, but with the idea that the content should
provide some value for you.
Fast forward. It was 21 years ago since I started Kolibri Expeditions. Last year I celebrated our 20th year with a Big Month in Peru scoring 1006 species, plus we launched a completely new product and website called 7 Wonders Birding Tours.
I am very excited about 7WBT as it is something completely different. Our world tours concentrate on what is important. I think many new birders feel that the traditional birding tours are often too long, too hard core and too expensive and frankly quite intimidating for anyone who just started.
For other birders caught up in their careers it is virtually impossible to be away from work for as long as it takes to clean up Australia or Peru. The work you left behind will either be waiting for you when you come back or someone else will be sitting at your desk if you are disconnected for too long.
I think most birders realize that they will never get all the birds anyway, and that both time and money are a limited resources in just the one lifetime we most likely will have.
More and more, I hear people talking about their bucket lists. A more deliberate approach to what they want to experience this time on planet Earth.
7 Wonders Birding offers very concise trips focusing on the traveling naturalist's buckets lists of Spectacular Birds, Iconic Mammals and World Heritage Sites. The trips are just as good for birders and bird photographers, as they are for non-birding spouses and non-birding friends. Because they will likely also
have interest to experience the wonders of the natural world and the monumental human heritage sites, but are perhaps not as hard core as yourself when it comes to id:ing every Little Brown Job.
But hey....be honest! What birds will you value most afterwards? The birds you can remember! The ones on your bucket list! Do you really "need" every tapaculo, cisticola and leaf warbler on your life list when you can't remember what they are called and how to identify them anyway?
Take India for example, where we ran a 5 day tour in January this year. It does not take too much convincing to get your non-birding spouse, or a friend who is a total newbie to birds, to get excited over a five day birding trip in India where you see Tiger on day 1; lots of birds, mammals and Gavial crocs on day 2, 3 and 4; and finally Taj Mahal on Day 5. Plus lots of delicious and
spicy Indian food and a the cultural experience of a lifetime.
Who would not love such a trip? You don't have to be a birder! The 8 travellers of different birding skills in our group were all delighted.
For more serious birders, we offer extensions before and after, so any trip can be extended to 2 and even 3 weeks for more endemics if this is what you want.
For the time being, the mailing list I have added you to is the Kolibri Birding News list. It is a continuation what you used to receive from me years ago - a mailing list where I apart from birding tales also try to give a personal touch. The delivery frequency varies, but rarely more than 3-4 emails per month.
You may remember from the old days. There will always be something different about these emails, and it may not always be birding related. The idea is to provide value to you and make you intrigued to open my emails. In other words - it is not only about selling birding trips.
The 7 Wonders Birding mailing list which will introduce our new bucket list tours around the world, you will have to subscribe to separately. Visit 7WondersBirding.com to sign
up. I am also preparing a blog series how to bird the New 7 Wonders - that should be interesting to anyone regardless if one wants to do it with us or do it solo. These blog posts will also be delivered through the 7 Wonders Birding Newsletter.
My next Kolibri News newsletter is in production and will be delivered in a few days, giving you some more thoughts on where the birding is going in the future plus a schedule where we may meet In Real Life this year.
Finally, if this email is not at all interesting to you, please unsubscribe below, and you shall never hear from me again. It is very easy!
Saludos
Gunnar
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Owner and Guide of Kolibri Expeditions.
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