Neotropical Birdwatching | Eustace Barnes

Eustace Barnes

Eustace Barnes, Geodyssey’s Director of Birdwatching and principal leader of our group birdwatching tours, is probably the UK's most experienced neotropical birdwatching guide.

He has worked in Latin America as a field researcher and bird tour leader since 1991. He researched mixed flocks and antbirds in Peru for six months and then developed an excellent knowledge of lowland birdsong with nine months on the Tambopata. He first led bird groups in Peru and Bolivia, and then throughout the neotropics—87 at the last count. Eustace has already seen all the ‘seeable’ birds on the continent, and so he is committed to transmitting his enthusiasm and field skills to others, for which his training as a teacher prepared him.

As a field guide, Eustace is fully equipped with a sound library and recording equipment and is known for his persistence in searching for species and patience in showing them to groups. He is an enthusiastic member of Kent Ornithological Society.

Eustace is also a highly accomplished bird artist, as the examples on this website and in our brochure show. An expert in bird identification, his illustrative contributions include:

Cotingas and Manakins

Pigeons and Doves of the World

The Bowerbirds

The Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 5

A Field Guide to the Birds of Peru

A Field Guide to the Birds of Bolivia (forthcoming)