Eiders and Buntings and Owls, Oh My!
Our 2024 Alaska tour season is off to a great start! As we have since 2017, we began with our annual trip to Kodiak Island and tacked on a quick trip up to Nome. Most visiting birders don't make time…
Our 2024 Alaska tour season is off to a great start! As we have since 2017, we began with our annual trip to Kodiak Island and tacked on a quick trip up to Nome. Most visiting birders don't make time…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Report and photos by tour leader Aaron Lang. A trip to Gambell in the fall can be frustrating, rewarding, exhausting, exhilarating, discouraging, and at times, nearly magical. Every trip could be described using one or two of these words. But…
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…