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

Ecuador: A Week in the Clouds, Feb 10-17 2013, with Jon Feenstra -- Ecuador as a birding destination is well known and difficult to rival, and the east slope of the Andes as they plunge toward the humid lowlands of the... added April 2012 (more)

New Jersey: Birding the American Revolution, May 11-18 2013, with Rick Wright -- It started in Massachusetts and it ended, nominally, in Virginia, but the American Revolution was fought in the hills and on the fields of New Jersey... added March 2012 (more)

See the complete list of new WINGS tours here.

Miscellany

David Fisher on the recent 2012 Western Pacific Odyssey cruise: I just spent a spectacular month in the Pacific cruising from New... (more)

Brent Stephenson on recent Three Kings Pelagic: We just returned from a very successful 6th Annual Three Kings pelagic,... (more)

Derek Lovitch's book is out: Derek's book, "How to Be a Better Birder" is out. Princeton... (more)

See all recent Miscellany here.

Burrowing Owls are a delightful part of our tour California: The South . The narrative and birdlists for this Jon Dunn tour can be found here

Photo: Steve N.G. Howell

From the Field

April 24: James Lidster on his just-concluded tours to Morocco

I am just home after two amazing tours to Morocco, both very similar and yet still quite different! On both trips we recorded many... (more)

April 22: Steve Rooke from his ongoing tour to Georgia

We have just enjoyed an excellent morning, birding in the dramatic setting of the Terek River valley (below), dominated by the the... (more)

April 20: Jon Dunn on his just-completed Upper Texas Coast tour

This year's Upper Texas trip was one of the smoothest ever with a front at exactly the right time (16 April), just after several... (more)

April 19: Paul Holt from his on-going tour to Taiwan

Our tour is going extremely well despite wet weather for the first three days. We've now seen all 24 of the Island's endemics except... (more)

See all recent From the Field submissions here.

Upcoming Tours

Limited space is available on these confirmed May-July tours.

China: Sichuan with Paul Holt - home to two-thirds of China’s endemic birds and its most spectacular scenery

Alaska: Gambell with Jon Dunn and Paul Lehman - spectacular seabirds, Beringian migrants and a chance of Asian strays

Mongolia with James Lidster - marvelous steppe birding including the north edge of the Gobi Desert

Iceland with Yann Kolbeinsson - spectacular volcanic scenery dotted with glaciers, and vast numbers of breeding birds

British Columbia in Summer with Gavin Bieber - wonderful birds, glorious mountain to sea surroundings

Ecuador: A Week in Paradise with Steve Howell - Spectacular Andean birding from a single comfortable base

more confirmed tours

Private Tours

WINGS organizes private tours worldwide. Details here.

AZ Birding

Coming to southeastern Arizona and want guiding help for just a day or two? Find an excellent guide at AZ-Birding.

WINGS Publications

You can read recent WINGS e-mail and print newsletters here.

Our Leaders & Staff

Brent Stephenson

Brent was born in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. At age 8, he took his first bird pics with his mum’s old point and shoot. Infatuations with birding and photography started early, and his first bird photos sold at 16. Birding took a back stage... (more)

Featured Tour

WINGS Leader in Residence - Gambell, Alaska

For many birders, there are few more exciting experiences than spring and fall birding on several of the islands in western Alaska, particularly at Gambell, Saint Lawrence Island. The autumn season, specifically, provides the opportunity of finding mind-blowing mega-rarities, a number of which do not occur in spring. The search of the three boneyards... (more)