WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide

Spring Migration in the Midwest

Eastern Wood Warblers

There may be no better place to witness the spring passage of songbirds than the Midwest. The three main eastern migration routes converge here and since the birds are nearing their breeding grounds the males are usually in full and vigorous song. With impressive, often spectacular numbers and diversity of...

Chile: Tierra del Fuego to the Atacama Desert

A fascinating collection of birds coupled with some of the most spectacular scenery on earth makes birding in Chile a superb experience. This narrow strip of territory, 150 miles wide by 2,500 miles long, is a land of immense variety and beauty: from the grandeur of wave-dashed Pacific beaches to...

Panama: Fall at the Canopy Tower

Panama is one of those fortunate places where two great avifaunas meet. As one moves from the Costa Rican border east toward the Colombian border, Central American birds drop out and the truly Neotropical groups such as antbirds, woodcreepers, tyrant flycatchers, hummingbirds and tanagers begin to dominate. It all makes...

Australia: Queensland and New South Wales

Riflebirds, Reefs and Rainforests

We’ll start the trip with three nights in Sydney where we will explore the best birding sites in the surrounding area and to take a pelagic trip rich in albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters. Moving north into southern Queensland, we will visit the renowned O’Reilly’s Rainforest Guesthouse, where megapodes and bowerbirds...

Arizona and Utah

Fall Migration in the Canyonlands

Our tour will combine breathtaking landscapes with exciting birdwatching, especially in the desert oases. We’ll visit world-renown canyons and monoliths sculpted from the massive Colorado Plateau, including the Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion Canyons, Monument Valley, and the Petrified Forest. We’ll also stop at a number of historic and scenic...

Panama: Darién Lowlands

Darién Province in far eastern Panama is one of the wildest and most remote corners of the isthmus. Largely roadless and with steep mountains cloaked in dense vegetation, the region holds its secrets well. With the development of the new Canopy Camp Darién, visiting naturalists finally have an accessible lodge...

New Zealand

Island Endemics and Seabirds

A birding tour to New Zealand is packed full of highlights: albatrosses so close you can count the droplets of water on their feathers, the deafening calls of New Zealand Bellbirds ringing through the forest at dawn, a confiding New Zealand Robin standing guard on a forest path, a Kiwi...

Nebraska: The Sandhills and the Platte River

Sandhill Cranes and Prairie Chicken

As it crosses the plains of central Nebraska, the Platte River hosts the greatest of all North American wildlife spectacles. Each spring, several million birds stop over here on their northbound migration; among them are more than 500,000 Sandhill Cranes—some 80 percent of the world population. Every evening the cranes...