WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide

Mexico: Oaxaca at Christmastime

The city of Oaxaca lies in an arid valley ringed by mountains in south-central Mexico. The site has been occupied for centuries, as evidenced by the old architecture and nearby pre-Columbian ruins, but the city remains rather small and retains a vibrant atmosphere. And although Oaxacan handicrafts offered in the...

Australia: Western Australia and Northern Territory

Brushtails, Baobabs and Bowerbirds

The states of Western Australia and the Northern Territory contain vast tracts of uninhabited desert wilderness and thousands of miles of unspoiled and stunning coastlines, all filled with birds. Starting out in the picturesque city of Perth, we’ll have a full week to explore the remote southwestern corner of the...

Senegal

Africa’s Sahel region is sandwiched between the Sahara Desert to the north and the lush forests of Upper Guinea to the south. It consists mostly of dry savannah, dry woodland and semi-desert but it also supports some of West Africa’s most important wetlands, and a wealth of special birds not...

Scotland

The Scottish Highlands are one of the last truly wild places in the United Kingdom. The imposing Grant Arms Hotel, home to The Birdwatching and Wildlife Club with its own Club room, wildlife information center, bookshop and natural history library, is ideally placed to explore the region. From this comfortable...

Trinidad and Tobago

with Trinidad Piping Guan

Lying just off the coast of Venezuela, the island of Trinidad shares much of its birdlife with the nearby continent. A large percentage of South America’s avian families are represented but without the confounding variety of species encountered on the mainland. For this reason, combined with its pleasant island atmosphere,...

Maine and New Hampshire

From Bicknell's Thrush to Atlantic Puffin

This tour visits one of the most beautiful and sparsely populated areas in North America near the peak of breeding bird activity. Maine and New Hampshire are an avifaunal crossroads, as many species reach their northernmost or southernmost breeding ranges here. We’ll spend time with both of these groups, focusing...

Idaho: Cassia Crossbill and Southern Idaho

In 2017 the AOS Checklist Committee agreed after extensive research by Craig Benkman that the endemic subspecies of Red Crossbill from Idaho’s eastern Twin Falls and Cassia Counties was a full species, the Cassia Crossbill (Loxia sinesciurus). The translation of the species name, sinesciurus, literally means “without squirrels,” and indeed Red Squirrels...

Bolivia: The Chaco, Valle Zone, and Central Andes

With high mountains and plains dominating the west, the Amazonian Basin in the north, the Pantanal wetlands in the far-east, and the Chaco in the south, the large country of Bolivia contains more diverse biomes than any other on the bird continent, making it also the birdiest landlocked country in...