Rockjumper Birding Tours proudly offers quality birding adventures, expertly guided by our passionate and experienced professional tour leaders. Our 300 scheduled tours annually explore the world’s prime birding areas, and our Tailor-made department can custom design your dream birding vacation.
Our leader to guest ratio is among the best in the industry. Some cruises are different, but typically our tours have about eight participants, providing RJ guests a personalized tour experience. 1 Leader : up to 8 guests, 2 Leaders : 8 – 12 guests
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Learn MoreAll in all it was a great tour. Bobby Wilcox was a great guide and I would do a tour anytime with him.
Erik was amazing. Rockjumper was amazing. We will definitely be looking for a trip with you in the future. No complaints. One of the best trips!
An excellent tour! Paul Josop lived up to our expectations for a Rockjumper guide - excellent knowledge of the birds; conscientious about getting everyone on the birds; on top of all the arrangements for meals, lodging and transportation; worked well with the local guide; and shared his excitement and good humor throughout the trip. The WhatsApp group that he set up was brilliant. He shared photos with us, as did other participants, and it was an easy way for us all to keep in touch. We would love to travel with Paul again.
I really enjoyed the trip and Lev was great. Since this is the first relaxed program, here are my thoughts: The pace was good and the places we went were productive (from a birding perspective). Getting up and moving earlier would have been fine and evening owling would have been good. Considering the stinking heat, I really appreciated not having long hikes. A friend came on the regular trip and said it was quite a difficult trip -- I was willing to give up some birds for a less strenuous trip.
The tour certainly lived up to expectations. Dusan is an excellent guide with vast knowledge and acute hearing, which enabled the group to see many species that would otherwise have gone undetected. The pace of the tour was perfect in my opinion and Dusan seemed to have endless energy and enthusiasm. The local guide for the Amazon lowlands leg of the trip, was equally as enthusiastic and excellent at finding birds in the dense undergrowth. The lodges were also of the very highest standard. I would thoroughly recommend this trip to anyone considering it.
This was an extremely enjoyable and well-run tour that met or exceeded all expectations. It was evident from the start that the tour was carefully organized with great attention to detail but with flexibility for the leader to adjust the itinerary as required. When a coffee stop at a facility planned for a later overnight stay revealed evidence of poor service and questionable facilities, the leader worked with the office to arrange a far better and more conveniently located alternative. Later, after consultation with the drivers and local residents on security issues, he decided on a route change that saved considerable driving time while providing unplanned access to some excellent birding areas. Unfortunately, a not so positive security assessment later prevented a planned visit to the Jemma Valley. This tour proved to be exactly as advertised. There were some long drives on bumpy roads, some of the food was boring and a few of the overnight accommodations were a bit basic. But the birding was exceptional with virtually every target found and well seen along with a few exceptional surprise species. The pace was intense at times with some long days, but there was always sufficient time for rest. This tour was unusual in that there was no night birding. We did see a number of owls, plus a few nightjars, but all of them at day roosts. David Hoddinott is an exceptional bird tour leader, the best I have traveled with on the dozen or so birding tours I have taken. His knowledge of birds and where to find them is unmatched, as is his skill in identifying a huge diversity of species by sight and sound. And he put great energy into ensuring that everyone got good looks at every bird. Over many years of leading tours in Ethiopia he has developed and cultivated relationships with local people who guided us to some roosting owls and other interesting species. And he has developed a personal catalog of roadside locations where interesting species can reliably be found. And finally, he displayed boundless enthusiasm for finding the birds and joy in sharing each discovery. I would eagerly sign up for another tour with David.