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

Ecuador: A Week in the Clouds, Feb 10-17 2013, with Jon Feenstra -- Ecuador as a birding destination is well known and difficult to rival, and the east slope of the Andes as they plunge toward the humid lowlands of the... added April 2012 (more)

New Jersey: Birding the American Revolution, May 11-18 2013, with Rick Wright -- It started in Massachusetts and it ended, nominally, in Virginia, but the American Revolution was fought in the hills and on the fields of New Jersey... added March 2012 (more)

See the complete list of new WINGS tours here.

Miscellany

David Fisher on the recent 2012 Western Pacific Odyssey cruise: I just spent a spectacular month in the Pacific cruising from New... (more)

Brent Stephenson on recent Three Kings Pelagic: We just returned from a very successful 6th Annual Three Kings pelagic,... (more)

Derek Lovitch's book is out: Derek's book, "How to Be a Better Birder" is out. Princeton... (more)

See all recent Miscellany here.

Horned Puffins are superbly attractive breeders on the birds cliffs of St. Paul Island, Pribilofs, Alaska. You can read about our latest tour to these celebrated outposts here

Photo: Gavin Bieber

From the Field

May 17: Gavin Bieber on his just-completed Arizona tour

Just wrapped up our annual Arizona Owls and Warblers tour. The spring of 2012 combined an earlier than normal warm up and... (more)

April 24: James Lidster on his just-concluded tours to Morocco

I am just home after two amazing tours to Morocco, both very similar and yet still quite different! On both trips we recorded many... (more)

April 22: Steve Rooke from his ongoing tour to Georgia

We have just enjoyed an excellent morning, birding in the dramatic setting of the Terek River valley (below), dominated by the the... (more)

April 20: Jon Dunn on his just-completed Upper Texas Coast tour

This year's Upper Texas trip was one of the smoothest ever with a front at exactly the right time (16 April), just after several... (more)

See all recent From the Field submissions here.

Upcoming Tours

Limited space is available on these confirmed May-July tours.

Alaska: Gambell with Jon Dunn and Paul Lehman - spectacular seabirds, Beringian migrants and a chance of Asian strays

Mongolia with James Lidster - marvelous steppe birding including the north edge of the Gobi Desert

Iceland with Yann Kolbeinsson - spectacular volcanic scenery dotted with glaciers, and vast numbers of breeding birds

British Columbia in Summer with Gavin Bieber - wonderful birds, glorious mountain to sea surroundings

Ecuador: A Week in Paradise with Steve Howell - Spectacular Andean birding from a single comfortable base

Oregon in Summer with Rich Hoyer - From the Pacific east across the Cascades to the wonders of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Private Tours

WINGS organizes private tours worldwide. Details here.

AZ Birding

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

WINGS Publications

You can read recent WINGS e-mail and print newsletters here.

Our Leaders & Staff

Steve Howell

Steve Howell has been birding for as long as he can remember: of course, this may simply mean that his memory isn’t very good. But the many who have traveled with him over his more than 25 years of leading tours around the world soon learn that... (more)

Featured Tour

Newfoundland: Winter Birds

Newfoundland may seem like an unlikely winter birding locale but in fact it’s brilliant. With Greenland to the northeast, Iceland and the rest of Europe to the east, mainland North America to the west and South America to the south, Newfoundland is the first or last land that many wayward birds see. Regardless of season, there’s almost... (more)