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 little visited 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
Guatemala 5-19 April. *One space.
Jamaica 6-13 April.
Lesvos 17-25 April.
Georgia and South Carolina 20-26 April.
Oregon in Spring 13 - 24 May.
Mongolia 21 May-5 June.
China: Sichuan 26 May-14 June.
Maine and New Hampshire 14-23 June. *One space.
Private Tours
WINGS organizes private tours worldwide. Details here.
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Gray Thrasher is a Baja’s endemics found on Rich Hoyer’s tour, Mexico: Baja California’s Cape Region
Photo: Rich Hoyer
From the Field
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)
February 23: Jake Mohlmann on his and Evan Obercian's recently concluded tour, Texas: The Rio Grande Valley
Our satiated group after a genuine Texas barbeque feast. We just ended our... (more)
Our Leaders & Staff
Rich Hoyer
Rich Hoyer’s first guiding and teaching experience came when he was a senior in high school when he was asked to teach a birdwatching class to a group of 3rd and 4th graders. Five years later, after showing friends from Germany the amazing natural... (more)
Featured Tour
Georgia in Autumn: Migration Along the Black Sea
Georgia in autumn is a birding secret that needs sharing. We favor beginning on the impressive Javakheti Plateau, a high-altitude area of gorges, farmland, steppe, and lakes populated by raptors possibly including Lammergier and vast numbers of waterbirds, followed by a stretch of the old Silk Road leading into the mighty Lesser Caucasus to search... (more)
AZ Birding
Coming to southeastern Arizona and want guiding help for just a day or two? Find an excellent guide at AZ-Birding.
