Yellowbilled Tours is a small group birding service in its 23rd year of touring the Nome Alaskan Tundra to the Tropics of Central America – Belize, Guatemala and Panama. Custom Birding Tours in hot spots of the lower 48 states all year. For Europe we focus on The Provence, France and in Italy Ravenna on the Adriatic Sea and The Po River Valley. We offer true small group tours, never more than 8 birders per trip, to ensure a personalized experience.
Upcoming Field Trips
Birding Panama in a Small Group includes the exciting Darin lowlands of Panama starting January 19, 2023. Registration is now open for 8 birders.
A new field trip offering from Yellowbilled Tours.
California Birds – 20 best birds to chase the fall and winter of 2022-2023 in California.
Birding California 2022 -2023 Year-round 20 best birds to see by habitat. California is vast area with many habitats and variety of landscapes. We each have our own criteria that influences our choices. These are my choices. We offer individual, couples, small groups,...
March 2nd, 2023 – Tropical Birding Trip: Belize and Guatemala. Belize is open for small birding groups. Currently no Covid19 protocols are mandatory.
Want to see what our clients think about this trip? Check out our most recent tropical birding trip client testimonials. Check out the Belize and Guatemala 2022 bird species field trip lists. Clicking these links should download Word documents to your computer. If...
April 17th-21st 2023: Texas, 4 Days of Birding the upper Texas coast during Spring Migration. A focused field trip of selected hot spots for arriving migrants.
Upland Sandpiper ...
May 10, 2023 New Mexico Southern Rocky Mountains and High Plains, Birding during Spring Migration. Reservations being accepted for 2023 field trip.
Birding New Mexico, the terminus of the southern Rocky Mountains, to witness the spring migration into Mexico is a field trip to remember.
Recent Trip Photos
California/Nevada Field Trips
California Birds – 20 best birds to chase the fall and winter of 2022-2023 in California.
Birding California 2022 -2023 Year-round 20 best birds to see by habitat. California is vast area with many habitats and variety of landscapes. We each have our own criteria that influences our choices. These are my choices. We offer individual, couples, small groups,...
2022 Olompali State Park, Novato, Ca., Birding walks are available now. Spring migrants are finished nesting in the park. Officially for birders fall migration is now in full motion. The Fall migrants will begin arriving in the park as they fly south by mid-August. Our next bird walk is Saturday August 27th starting at 9AM. Wintering birders are a tad later arriving in late September. Watch for our next scheduled bird walk.
Birding the Oak Savannah habitat of California The 2022 The Marin Audubon Breeding Bird Atlas survey has completed its second year of a five-year project. The Olompali team has recorded 44 Species to date. Dede Bag- Hi Rich, it was a great day, and I enjoyed seeing...
2022 and 2023 Point Reyes National Seashore & local hot spots, Custom Birding tailored to your schedule Northern California available all year.
Birding the Point Reyes National Seashore just northeast of the Gulf of the Farallones and southeast of the Cordell Bank. This area is a migrant trap, a peninsula jetting out into the Pacific Ocean miles west of the mainland. We will bird Douglas Fir...
2022-23 Nevada – Spring-Fall Migration Birding Northeastern California & Nevada, Small Group, Individuals, Couples.
Field Trip begins with pick-up in Reno Nevada. Once I know the birds you want to chase I can create a field trip to meet your needs. A good region to...
2022 – 2023 Summer Birding Sierra Nevada Mountains & Sierra Lakes high elevation birding – Small Groups, Individuals, Couples.
NMono Lake Sunrise Sonora Pass Hwy 120 high elevation birding. Mountain Blue Bird American Dipper Green-tail...
What I’m Reading
- How to Know Where The Birds Are and the companion Field Guide: Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America by Ted Floyd, National Geographic Press
- Wild Notes by Mike Lubow, Wilderness Society Press
- Inverness Almanac: a Day by Day timeline of the ecology of the Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California.
San Francisco Bay Field Trips
California Birds – 20 best birds to chase the fall and winter of 2022-2023 in California.
Birding California 2022 -2023 Year-round 20 best birds to see by habitat. California is vast area with many habitats and variety of landscapes. We each have our own criteria that influences our choices. These are my choices. We offer individual, couples, small groups,...
2022 Olompali State Park, Novato, Ca., Birding walks are available now. Spring migrants are finished nesting in the park. Officially for birders fall migration is now in full motion. The Fall migrants will begin arriving in the park as they fly south by mid-August. Our next bird walk is Saturday August 27th starting at 9AM. Wintering birders are a tad later arriving in late September. Watch for our next scheduled bird walk.
Birding the Oak Savannah habitat of California The 2022 The Marin Audubon Breeding Bird Atlas survey has completed its second year of a five-year project. The Olompali team has recorded 44 Species to date. Dede Bag- Hi Rich, it was a great day, and I enjoyed seeing...
Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) and related Citizen Science initiatives YBT supports.
2021 November 18th Point Blue Shorebird Survey. Yellowbilled Tours has the Las Gillinas WTP three ponds and island count area, this is a high tide roosting for shore birds seeking resting and feeding during San Pablo Bay tidal action. 2021 - December 17th Eastern...
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