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A Juvenile White Wagtail At Gambell, Alaska

Gambell: Fall 2023 Trip Report

It's been a great fall season for Wilderness Birding Adventures with exciting and productive trips to Adak, Gambell, and the Pribilofs! Here's a brief update from our September 1-11 trip to Gambell. Gambell, situated on the northwest point of St.…

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A Birder Scans The Mudflats Of Clam Lagoon, Adak Island, Alaska.

Adak: Fall 2023 Trip Report

Adak Island, Fall Migration September 20-27, 2023 We had so much fun birding Adak Island in September of 2022 that we just had to make another trip out this year. Every season is different when birding the edge of Alaska.…

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Hawfinch, Adak, Alaska

Adak: Spring 2023 Trip Report

Scott and Aaron (Lang) just completed our spring tour to Adak Island in the Central Aleutian Islands. Every year this trip kicks off our suite of spring birding adventures in western Alaska. If the results of this year’s foray to…

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Emperor Goose, Kodiak, Alaska

Spring Fever Birding: Kodiak and Nome

We've just completed our annual early spring trip to Kodiak and Nome for a week of great birding! Since 2017, this trip has marked the beginning of our year of birding tours in Alaska. After a long winter, we get…

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Adak Island, Alaska

New Tour in 2023: Fall Migration on Adak Island!

We're continually exploring, learning, and working to improve the tours that we lead. We've been leading spring migrations tours to Adak Island since 2008 and have long considered a fall trip. So in 2022, we took a group of friends…

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Ross's Gull At Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska On A Wilderness Birding Adventures Tour

Ross’s Gull Migration 2021!

With the completion of our fall tour to Utqiagvik for the Ross's Gull migration, our abbreviated 2021 Alaska birding tour season has just come to an end. This short tour was a frigid and successful end to our season. It's…

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The First Rays Of Sun Hit Sivuqaq Mountain On Gambell.

COVID-19 and Upcoming Tours

Greetings Friends, In May 2023, the WHO (World Health Organization), the CDC (United States Centers for Disease Control), and other health organizations downgraded their alert level for COVID-19 and declared an end to the public health emergency. Beginning in January…

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The Rarest Bird Of The Trip, This Giant Ibis At A Nest Site Was A Thrill For All!

2020 Cambodia Itinerary Announced!

One of the world's rarest birds, the Giant Ibis, clings to existence in the forests of northern Cambodia. Photo Aaron Lang. For many reasons, Cambodia may just be Southeast Asia’s best-kept birding secret. Large tracts of open gallery forest in…

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The Rarest Bird Of Our Trip Was This Solitary Snipe, Only The Third Ever Recorded In North America! Photo Aaron Lang.

The Pribilofs: A Week of Rarities!

The highlight of our 2018 fall tour St. Paul Island was this stunning Solitary Snipe, only the third ever recorded in North America! Photo Aaron Lang. An Account of Our Recent Fall Tour to St. Paul Island, 21-26 September 2018.…

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