WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide

Oregon in Spring

Oregon is well known for lush ancient forests and a picturesque coastline that teems with waterbirds. This is the Oregon west of the Cascade Mountains, where most of the human population resides. Less well known is how radically different the habitat and climate become as one moves south and east....

Indonesia: West Papua

The island of New Guinea is surely one of the most exciting birding destinations on Earth. The array of monarchs, honeyeaters, fruit-doves, kingfishers, and parrots are thrilling in their own right, but the otherworldly birds-of-paradise are without doubt the most superlative avian wonders to be found anywhere. Our tour of...

Brazil: The Southeast Atlantic Rainforest

Locally known as the Mata Atlântica in eastern Brazil, the wet forests stretching along the Atlantic coast are home to the typical Neotropical bird families familiar to those who have birded elsewhere in South America: woodcreepers, foliage-gleaners, antbirds, antpittas, cotingas, tapaculos, manakins, and tanagers. But imagine that these rainforest-cloaked mountains...

Hawaii

Rainbow of Birds

It might be the 50th state, but birding Hawai‘i feels like a world away. Here, on one of the world’s most remote archipelagos, the chance arrival of far-flung waifs—a rosefinch and a monarch flycatcher from the East, and a solitaire and several waterbirds from North America—led to mind-blowing adaptive radiation...

Argentina: The South

Pampas, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

Argentina contains a greater variety of habitats than any other South American country. Stretching from the sub-tropical forests around Iguazú Falls to the sub-Antarctic island of Tierra del Fuego, the landscapes are as varied as one could wish, and the birds are similarly diverse. We’ll start in the pampas southeast...

Greece: Lesvos

Spring Migration Through the Aegean

The stunningly beautiful Greek island of Lesvos is now firmly established as one of the best locations in Europe for observing spring migration. In spite of being one of the largest islands in the Aegean Sea (second in size only to Crete) and having an international airport at Mytilene, Lesvos...

Greece: Mainland Spring Migration

Greece is sandwiched between the countries of Albania, North Macedonia, and Bulgaria to the north, the Ionian Sea to the west, Turkey and the Aegean Sea to the east, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Its maritime location and varied landscapes not only helped shape Greece’s history and culture...

Mexico: Baja California's Cape Region

The Cape Region of southern Baja California is in some ways a familiar place. Many of the area’s plants and animals are also found in California or the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and west Mexico, but there are obvious differences, and those differences have attracted natural historians for decades. There...