WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide
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
Peninsular Malaysia, 19-30 August 2019, with Susan Myers -- About 720 bird species have been recorded in peninsular Malaysia, and a large... (more)
Borneo - Sarawak Endemics, Jul 26 - Aug 3 2019, with Susan Myers -- Borneo is quite rightly regarded as one of the great storehouses of our planet’s... (more)
Senegal, Feb 21 - Mar 6 2020, with Paul French and Steve Rooke -- Africa’s Sahel region is vast and surprisingly undervisited by western... (more)
New Mexico in Winter, 6-13 January 2020 (A New Departure) , with Raymond VanBuskirk -- Riverine cottonwood stands along the Upper Rio Grande River, expansive fields... (more)
Guaranteed Tours
Oregon in Spring 13 - 24 May.
Mongolia 21 May-5 June.
China: Sichuan 26 May-14 June.
Maryland and West Virginia 16-23 June.
Iceland 21-30 June. *One space
Ecuador: Mindo and the Northwest Andes 29 June-7 July.
Colombia: The Chocó 28 July-9 August.
Alaska: Fall Migration at Gambell & the Pribilofs 30 August-7 September; Pribilofs to 12 September.
Private Tours
WINGS organizes private tours worldwide. Details here.
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Elegant Trogon is the archetypal species of southeast Arizona’s mountain canyons and on Arizona: Owls and Warblers. An account of our latest tour to this marvelous region is here
Photo: Gary Rosenberg
From the Field
April 1: Rich Hoyer on his Mar. 2019 tour to Baja California's Cape Region
Gorgeous weather, delicious food, amazing scenery, and a great group were highlights... (more)
March 26: Jake Mohlmann, Evan Obercian and Ethan Kistler on their just-completed tour, Nebraska: The Sandhills and the Platte River
We just finished covering 1,000 miles of mostly paved roads through America’s... (more)
March 11: Gavin Bieber on the first of his irregular Outback Australia tours, Southwestern Australia and Northern Queensland
The first of what will be a series of irregular WINGS outback Australia tours... (more)
March 8: Steve Howell and Fabrice Schmitt on their recent cruise, Around Cape Horn - Santiago, Chile to Buenos Aires, Argentina
As usual this trip was a great mix of seabirding and landbirding. From huge... (more)
Our Leaders & Staff
Derek Lovitch
Derek Lovitch is a career biologist with a lifelong passion for birds. He has worked on avian research and education projects in nine states, from New Jersey to Hawaii and from Florida to Michigan. He also spent three summers as a tour guide on Alaska’s... (more)
Featured Tour
Tanzania: Kilimanjaro to the Serengeti
The founding father of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, long ago realized the importance of his nation’s natural resources and did much to ensure their protection. Today 25% of the country is given over to national parks and reserves, of which the most famous, in the north of the country, form the basis for this tour. Starting on the densely wooded... (more)
AZ Birding
Coming to southeastern Arizona and want guiding help for just a day or two? Find an excellent guide at AZ-Birding.
