Limosa - Birdwatching and Wildlife Hoildays Worldwide

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Welcome to Limosa

With more than two decades of experience behind us, Limosa is proud to be recognised as one of the world's leading specialist birdwatching and wildlife tour operators.

Steenbok, Limosa Namibia, March 2006 © tour participant Dick Forsman  Limosa group watching waders at Miranda, New Zealand © tour participant Mo Warren  Resplendent Quetzal, Costa Rica © Steven Easley/Costa Rica Gateway  Wandering Albatross, New Zealand 2006 tour © participant Don King

From our office close to the famous North Norfolk coast, Limosa’s varied annual programme includes more than one hundred of the very best in birding and wildlife tours. Meticulously planned, professionally led and with prices that are genuinely all-inclusive, we offer something for everyone - from five-day birdwatching breaks in Europe through to a comprehensive selection of two- and three-week holidays and cruises to some of the world's most beautiful wild places.

Our schedule of tours for 2007-8 ranges from tried and tested favourites - such as Spain, Lesbos, Gambia and the Norfolk coast - to more than twenty holidays that are either completely new or which we haven’t offered for a while, including Mali, Madagascar, Vancouver Island and Fair Isle in autumn. You’ll find tours that focus solely on birds through to holidays with broader natural history appeal.

The activity symbols at the top right of each tour page are designed to give ‘at a glance’ an indication of what to expect.

Using The Limosa Website

Within this website you will find the full contents of our latest brochure plus a wealth of other information, including a Tour Overview, Detailed Itineraries and Bird Lists for all our forthcoming tours. Tour Reports are also available for many of our trips and you can access these at the click of a button on the relevant tour page.

If you want to know more about a particular tour/s, please ask for our detailed Tour Information Pack - there's one for each of our trips. To request a Tour Info Pack, simply click the Tour Info Pack button alongside the tour/s of your choice and we’ll mail or email this to you by return.

You can read more about the nature of our holidays by clicking the About Limosa button, see what we’ve been seeing on recent trips by visiting our exciting new Gallery, and keep up-to-datewith developments and offers by enjoying the latest Limosa News. And you can use our unique Search facility to help find a topic that interests you: perhaps a particular tour destination, trips with your favourite Limosa leader or even a 'target' species that you are keen to see.

To access all the above and more, simply click the Tours button - and away you go!

And when you've found the perfect tour, what could be easier than Booking Online? With our user-friendly website, it’s simple, safe and secure. (Or you can download a printable Booking Form and book off-line, if you prefer.) We hope that you enjoy your visit to our website - and we look forward to birding with you soon!

The Limosa Team

News

WHAT'S NEW? ON... Saturday 3 May

Happy holidays! Our trips to Central Spain and Poland get underway today. If you haven't made your own holiday plans yet, then it's not too late to join us for some terrific birding over the coming season...

2008 - BEST YEAR FOR SNOWY OWL?

If the opportunity to look for Snowy Owl appeals to you, Dick Forsman reckons that our spring 2008 trip could well offer the best chances to see this species there since we ran our first tour to Finland - 16 years ago!...

CALENDAR OF TOURS (updated 3 May)

Here's a complete listing of all our 2008 tours, through into early 2009, showing current status and availability ...

OFFICE BIRD NEWS updated Tue 29 April

Good morning! It's another glorious day here in north Norfolk, and our summer warblers are in fine voice...

LATE AVAILABILITY

Still looking for a birding trip this spring? We've limited late space on the following GUARANTEED DEPARTURES:

HOT FOOT IT TO FINLAND & ARCTIC NORWAY!

If it's the northern owls and Arctic specialities you're after, then our spring tour to Finland & Norway is the trip for you! Need further inducement? Take a look at these great photos from...

RECENT TOUR NEWS

Our 2008 programme is well and truly underway, with some great trips already completed. Read on to see how they got on ...

COMING UP...

Find out what's up and coming on our website...

Falklands 2009 - EXTRA DEPARTURE

Our 2009 Falkland Islands tour (8-21 Jan) is full! Good news is we've just added a second departure, 22 Jan-4 Feb 2009. There are ...

NORFOLK: News from our Long Weekend, 27 Feb-3 Mar 2008

Our latest Norfolk Long Weekend finished on Monday 3 March 2008 - and produced yet another impressive run of sightings ...

ALL ABOARD FOR... ST KILDA, SULA SGEIR & BEYOND!

In 2007, Andy Strangeway, a decorator from Yorkshire, completed a unique 4-year challenge - to spend a night on every Scottish island. Quite some feat - and one that Limosa ...