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Welcome to Tom's Home Page

On this page you can find information on the following activities or services Tom Hince offers

Loggerhead Shrike - one of Toms favourite birds.

Speaking Engagements

Looking for an exciting and entertaining presentation for a meeting, gathering or special occasion? Tom can either prepare a custom slide presentation, or integrated video and slide multimedia presentation for your group or you can choose from the following active programs Tom offers:

• Ecosystems of Ontario: an Overview
• Point Pelee: the park that birds built (the history of birding and birds at Point Pelee)
• Canadians with attitude! : (how a Canadian birding team won the coveted World Series of Birding competition five times)
• Australia: A naturalists dream destination
• Myths and misconceptions about birds

Video and Stock Images

Tom has a large stock video library with many bird and nature images from Canada, the US, New Zealand and Australia. All footage is shot on miniDV tape with either Canon XL1s or Sony DCR-VX2000 video cameras.  Among the subjects covered are many bird species that are listed as either Threatened or Endangered.

HI DEFINITION Stock footage

In December 2006, Tom went 'HI def'. He purchased a Panasonic HVX200 (also known as the P2). This is a tapeless camera that shoots true HI def images (not to be confused with HDV which is much inferior compressed format).  He has already reacquired a substantial amount of bird footage in HI def including winter shoots in Florida and Ecuador and spring shoots in Texas and Florida. He already has footage of at least 150 species of birds archived. 

Guided Birding Trips - UPDATED JULY 26, 2007

Upcoming Trips - now booking
SOUTH AFRICA  - Sept/Oct 2008	BOOKING
AUSTRALIA  - Oct/Nov 2008	BOOKING
NEWFOUNDLAND - July 2008	BOOKING
OAXACA - Mar 2-10, 2008	BOOKING
TANZANIA - April, 2008	FULL
ECUADOR  Feb 2008	BOOKING

Private Guiding (available at any time with enough notice)

• Custom trips for groups as small as four persons to many areas of the globe.
• Let me do all the planning, booking and guiding!
• Half day and full day guiding in the Pelee region.
• You can contact me at (519) 825-9070 or peleetom@netcore.ca

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