I’d like to give a warm welcome to members of the World Parrot Trust who may be discovering this blog for the first time due to my article in Flock Talk – The Golden Conures at the End of the Rainbow.

I will be starting a series on how to organize a trip like this for yourselves in the next few days as soon as I finish my series on West Papua.  I also have series about how to go birding in Thattekad, Kerala; the Cook Islands, Tasmania and Tambopata in Peru.   I have set up the blog with brief descriptions of parrots and other birds that will link to the articles on how to get there and see them in the wild.  Here is a post on how to start planning your own trip.  You can also learn which frequent flier programs have the best deals for eco-tourists.

You have probably seen a lot of other parrot conservation blogs hosted by World Parrot Trust.  In my blog, I focus on the travel side of things.  I will show you how to get to these amazing places on a budget using frequent flyer miles for next-to-nothing and hotel points in gateway cities to keep costs down so you can spend your money in the local communities. That’s what eco-tourism is all about, showing the locals that their wild birds belong in the wild, they have other alternatives to trapping them and they can make a good living serving eco-tourists!

If you have any questions, please feel free to comment below.