Welcome to Birdwatching Breaks

A warm welcome to our on-line 2025-2026 brochure of birdwatching holidays, this being our 37th year of operation.

In 2025-2026, we have introduced new tours to interesting countries around the world, all of them having had an inspection trip either by us or our local tour operators.

In Asia, we have destinations to Japan both in winter and early summer. For those who wish to witness the winter wonderland of Japan, we have tours in February 2025 and 2026. The country continues to be a popular destination and we have modified the winter tour slightly to visit an area for Japanese Murrelet. I have also introduced an early summer tour to Japan taking in the Ryuku Islands, Izu Islands and the beautiful island of Hokkaido. In January 2026 a tour to Sri Lanka which has over 30 endemic bird species among spectacular landscapes.

I have also reinstated a tour to Australia which covers the Northern Territory, Alice Springs and South Australia. These three distinct areas offer you an exceptional range of Australian bird and mammal species.

In Africa, we have departures to Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Uganda. These destinations offer you an extremely wide range of African birds and mammals from the Sahel in Senegal to the birds and mammals of Uganda. In Senegal we have a new tour taking in a pelagic trip off Dakar and the Sahel region along the Senegal River. To the south we continue to offer the unexplored country of Guinea-Bissau and the southern part of Senegal, Casamance.

In The Americas a birding tour to Colombia the world's best birding country is planned for January 2026. In mid-summer a tour to Arctic Canada where we visit Alberta and the isolated outpost of Cambridge Bay where breeding birds abound in the brief summer period.

Closer to home, we have departures to Armenia, Azerbaijan, France, Ireland and Sweden. These countries offer you great birding among spectacular countryside and vistas.

2025 sees the 20th year of Black Isle Birding which covers all our holidays operating in Scotland and Britain. This sector has grown significantly over the last few years and we are pleased to say that we have a growing reputation as one of Scotland’s premier birding companies. Jo and I operate our popular “holiday at home” programme based at Cygnus House. Its location, overlooking the Cromarty Firth and set in two acres of wildlife habitat, makes it is an ideal base for visiting northern Scotland. We have several other Scottish tours to Caithness, Shetland, and an island special visiting the Western Isles including The Uists, Harris and Lewis

I firmly believe we offer you the best birding packages in Scotland, with the country’s top birding guides, along with a friendly and welcoming service with no hidden extras.

Further afield in Britain tours have been added to county of Northumbria which is combined with Dumfries and Galloway.

The team at Birdwatching Breaks looks forward to welcoming you on one of our tours.

Mark Finn