Welcome to WINGS

If you’re an old hand, we hope our program is of interest. If you’re new to birding tours, you might find our essay “Choosing a Birding Tour” helpful.

What's New

Ghana, Nov 2-15, 2013, with Robert Ntakor and Yann Kolbeinsson -- Lying on the Gulf of Guinea along Africa’s tropical western coast, Ghana is a country rich both... added December 2012 (more)

Ecuador: the South, Nov 3-19, 2013, with Jon Feenstra -- Although Ecuador is renowned for epic birding, the south stands out like a string of pearls—accessible... added November 2012 (more)

Northern Peru: The Cloud Forests of the Rio Mayo and Abra Patricia, Feb 6-15, 2014, with Rich Hoyer -- Off limits to travelers 20 years ago but now part of a major birding circuit, the highway that straddles... added April 2013 (more)

See the complete list of new WINGS tours here.

Miscellany

Significant price reduction on our August 2013 Colombia tour: Sunbird has turned over this tour with utter confidence to our brilliant... (more)

See all recent Miscellany here.

Scanning for Ibisbill in one of the rocky streams exiting the Tien Shan Mountains, one of the spectacular birds and locations on Central Asia. You can read Steve Rooke’s account of our most recent tour here.

Photo: Steve Rooke

From the Field

May 8: Paul Lehman on his just-completed "repositioning" cruise from San Diego to Vancouver

The inaugural WINGS Pacific Coast "repositioning" cruise 14-17 April was a great success, with superb birds, a fine ship, excellent... (more)

May 6: Gavin Bieber on his just completed tour of South Florida

Our survey of the habitats and avifauna of this remarkable region took in such wonderful sights as the seemingly endless “sea... (more)

April 29: Paul French from his on-going tour to Georgia and the High Caucasus

We’ve just reached the half-way point on our tour of Georgia, and are currently reflecting on our time spent in the Greater... (more)

See all recent From the Field submissions here.

Upcoming Tours

Limited space is available on the following confirmed May - June 2013 tours. Note that most of our May-September tours are at present fully booked. If space opens on any of these tours, we’ll post it here.

Maryland and West Virginia: Birding the American Civil War with Jon Dunn - Blending Civil War historical sites with Appalachian birding. A chance for up to 25 species of warbler, plus Henslow’s Sparrow, cuckoos, and more.

Iceland with Yann Kolbeinsson - Spectacle birding at its best, with thousands of breeding alcids, waterfowl, gulls, and shorebirds in the “land of ice and fire”, one of the most dramatic landscapes in the world.

Private Tours

WINGS organizes private tours worldwide. Details here.

WINGS Publications

You can read recent WINGS e-mail and print newletters and subscribe to our newsletter here.

AZ Birding

Coming to southeastern Arizona and want guiding help for just a day or two? Find an excellent guide at AZ-Birding.

Our Leaders & Staff

Giff Beaton

Giff Beaton has been eagerly studying nature for over 35 years. For the past 15 years, he has led a variety of bird tours and given a diverse range of nature presentations. He is the author of Birding Georgia and The Birds of Kennesaw Mountain, the coauthor... (more)

Featured Tour

Sky Island Sketching: Field Sketching & Birding in Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains

WINGS invites you to join our inaugural field sketching tour to one of the world’s iconic birding destinations: the Chiricahua Mountains in southeast Arizona! Have you ever wished to hone your skill at drawing birds and other wildlife? To refine your powers of observation? We’ll have fun doing that––in a peerless setting, where... (more)