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New Zealand Birding & Nature Tours Schedule

2026

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with Matt Jones: January 30 to February 20--SOLD OUT

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with David Thomas: February 2 to 23--SOLD OUT

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with David Thomas: March 2 to 23--SOLD OUT

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with Matt Jones: October 30 to November 20--SOLD OUT

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with Brent Stephenson: November 13 to December 4--SOLD OUT

We also sold out ten other tours for 2026.

We (along with our guides and partners in New Zealand) offered 15 New Zealand birding tours for October 2025 to early 2026 season (through March). These tours are sold out.

2027

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife Matt Jones: January 25 to February 15--SOLD OUT

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with Fraser Gurney: February 8 to March 1--SOLD OUT

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with Sav Saville: March 2 to 22--SOLD OUT

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with David Thomas: October 29 to November 19--SOLD OUT

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with David Thomas: November 17 to December 8--SOLD OUT 

We also sold out ten other tours for 2027.

We (along with our guides and partners in New Zealand) offered 15 New Zealand birding tours for the October 2026 to early 2027 season (through March). These tours are sold out.


We have also sold out all tours for late 2027 (October to December), as of May 15, 2026.


Due to the short season and availability at two lodges along the key birding route, we can only run about fifteen tours per year.


Please book these tours well in advance.


Please call, as sometimes clients drop off these tours, and we can find last-minute availability.

2028

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with Fraser Gurney: January 24 to February 14

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with Sav Saville: March 4 to 25

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with David Thomas: October 27 to November 17

New Zealand: Comprehensive Birding and Wildlife with David Thomas: November 15 to December 6

MORE DATES FOR 2028: We will certainly run at least eight and maybe eleven more tours in 2028. Please call to find a date which works for you from January to March 2028 or at the end of the year (October to December). Please call or email to book these tours well in advance.

Contact in the USA: Charles:

Forms and payments should be mailed to:

Charles Thornton-Kolbe (in Denver, Colorado)

Telephone: 720-320-1974

Address:

2443 South University

Suit 199

Denver, CO 80210

 

Partnership For International Birding

Address:

PO Box 219

Olyphant, PA 18447

Contact in the UK: Jennifer De Souza:

Jennifer De Souza (in Suffolk, England) 

Telephone: +44 7500 185 058

                     +44 7881 685 779

Address:

The Roost, Leiston Road

Middleton

Saxmundham

Suffolk IP17 3NS

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