With decades of experience in the Last Frontier State, our leaders know Alaska like nobody else. Photo: WINGS
Alaska is as spectacular as it is vast, with stunning snow-covered peaks rising out of flower-laden tundra and mighty glaciers flowing into forest-lined fjords. Late May and early June are a wonderful time to search for the state’s many breeding specialties. Our popular spring tours have been thoroughly revised for 2010 to increase our clients’ flexibility, providing an opportunity to personalize a tour to suit your schedule and your needs.
Certain combinations of tours are available at a price less than the sum of the individual tour prices; details on these savings are available from the WINGS office.
The Pribilofs are the place in North America for savoring the richness of a seabird colony. Our visit to St. Paul will concentrate on the nesting species, but in late May we also hope for migrating shorebirds and a rarity or two. The Pribilofs can be combined with our Majesty of the North tour or with our spring tour of Gambell.
Mainland Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula features Denali National Park, where Mount McKinley and the Alaska Range provide the spectacular backdrop to our search for Grizzly Bears and Smith’s Longspurs. The magnificent Kenai Peninsula and Resurrection Bay are full of impressive displays of marine birds and mammals.
Gambell combines the possibility of Asiatic visitors with a spectacular passage of seabirds. We also hope to see birds that breed locally in western or northern Alaska but nowhere else in North America.
Nome and the Seward Peninsula will still be witnessing migration during our visit, and we’ll search for Bristle-thighed Curlew among the wealth of breeding shorebirds. Nome extensions are available for both our Majesty of the North tour and our spring tour of Gambell.
Barrow, the most northerly city in Alaska, offers access to high-latitude tundra rich in specialty birds. We’ll search for Steller’s and Spectacled Eiders here, at one of the only accessible breeding areas in North America for both.
WINGS also visits Alaska in the fall. Gambell in Autumn provides the opportunity to see a variety of specialties, an incredible seabird spectacle, and likely some Asian landbird strays. Paul Lehman spends much of the fall at Gambell as the WINGS Leader in Residence.
Click on any of the tour names above for further information about our itineraries. Please contact the WINGS office at any time if you have questions as you design your tour.
Updated: 11 November 2009
Prices
- 2010 prices starting at about $3,190