Yes, we’ve procrastinated long enough, and as part of our month-long celebration of Puerto Rico’s biodiversity it’s now time to give away a superb “endemic bird dash” around Puerto Rico worth about 2500USD courtesy of Kevin Loughlin of Wildside Nature Tours (actually we kind of hoped if we delayed for long enough readers might forget all about the competition and we could enter and win ourselves, but it seems from emails I’ve been getting that readers haven’t forgotten at all - *sigh*).

So, Charlie, spill the beans - what might I win and how do I enter?

I’m very glad you asked…

What might I win?

• Kevin has been organising trips to the Caribbean for many years and is generously offering a place for ONE winner AND a partner/friend of their choice on an Endemic Dash, one of his popular short trips around Puerto Rico on which participants will be taken to see as many of the island’s endemics as possible.

  Yes, you - and I do mean YOU - could soon be seeing Puerto Rican Tody, Adelaide’s and Elfin Woods Warblers, Yellow-shouldered Blackbird, Puerto Rican Spindalis and an awesome host of Antillean specials - and it will hardly cost you anything at all!

  The Tour *starts in Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan, so you’ll need to get there first (flights are not included but they are frequent and cheap from many major US cities) - but ALL guiding fees, accommodations, ground transportation, and meals from dinner on day of arrival through breakfast on day of departure are included!

  That would normally cost two people around 2500USD - enter and win and it’ll cost you just your passport fees, airport taxes, alcoholic beverages, laundry, phone calls or anything else of a purely personal nature! Which - if you go easy on the celebratory beers, wear the same socks for a few days, and keep short the gloating phone calls to your jealous mates back home - really won’t amount to very much at all…

   

  • * Travel with Wildside Nature Tours on their earliest scheduled 2010 Puerto Rico Endemic Dash that has enough paying clients to guarantee departure. Remember, flights are not included in this competition.

Sounds fantastic - how do I enter?

• It couldn’t be easier. Kevin has set three questions that we’ve posted below. Read the questions, collect the answers from the Wildside Nature Tours website, and email them in to me at charlie10000birds@gmail.com by midnight EST on JUNE 30TH 2009.

  I will ask my daughter Evie to point her ‘jammy finger’ (her what? all is explained right here) at the correct entries and whichever email entry the jammy finger stops at WINS THE TOUR.

  I will email the winner as soon as possible after June 30th, and will announce the result on 10,000 Birds on Monday JULY 6TH 2009

Couldn’t be more straightforward really, so the very best of luck to one and all, and thanks again to Kevin for donating such a superb prize!

Finally some legal-type stuff…

• Entry to the competition is free, and is open to anyone with a passport and who is eligible to travel (except for Charlie, Mike, Corey and their families of course).
• An independent witness will ensure that the winner is chosen fairly and entirely at random from the correct entries.
• There is no entry fee, no requirements to purchase anything to enter, and no conditions levied by 10,000 Birds for accepting the prize (though if a blogger wins a trip report when you get back might be a nice way to thank us…).
• There are no alternative prizes, and no cash alternative to the holiday will be given or offered under any circumstances.
• The dates of the tour will be arranged between Kevin Loughlin and the competition winner.
• 10,000 Birds is not involved in any way with the tour, its organisation, or its itinerary, and can not be held responsible if the winner loses their passport on the way to the airport, or if it rains a lot, or in fact any other daft thing that might just happen but is nothing to do with us whatsoever…any problems please take them up with Kevin (who is a really nice guy and will do his best to help).

• Like to see what else we’ve posted for ‘Puerto Rico Month’? Just click http://10000birds.com/tag/puerto-rico-month