Yellowbilled Tours is a small group birding service in it’s 19th year of touring the Alaskan Tundra to the Tropics of Central America, hot spots in the lower 48 states and Provence, France. We offer true small group tours, never more than 6 per trip, to ensure a personalized experience.
Upcoming Field Trips
1/18/20: Belize Birding interior Belize and Tikal Guatemala including Mayan Ruins
The March 5, 2020 Belize and Guatemala Field trip is OPEN for registration! Why Belize as a birding destination? For birders and bird photographers there are more than 580 species of birds in an area the size of a Massachusetts. The small group venue...
read more2019 Spring Custom Birding Nevada, Birding Tailored to Your Schedule
New Field Trip: Winter Nevada Birding - per your schedule! With the Holidays behind us and Christmas Bird Counts completed, it is time for a winter birding field trip. Why not bird Las Vegas? Average temperatures are mild and our knowledgeable...
read more4/13/19: Texas, Birding, Southeast Spring Migration
Field trip is booked 100% - will offer this field trip in April 2020. Why bird east Texas in the spring ? One reason is High Island and its warbler migrant fallout is so much different than birding west Texas. High Island will be a focus as will be Houston area hot...
read more5/14/2019 New Mexico Southern Rocky Mtn. and High Plains, Birding for Spring Migration
Birding New Mexico, the terminus of the southern Rocky Mountains, to witness the fall migration into Mexico is a field trip to remember.
read more6/1/19 first trip & 6/5/19 second trip: Nome Alaska, Birding
Birding Nome Alaska is the most interesting, productive and exciting location in North America – we offer a small group tour.
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Local Birding Activities
Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) and related Citizen Science initiatives by date
2018 - December 14 Eastern Alameda County Christmas Bird Count - Alameda Creek Watershed - Yellowbilled Magpies and Golden Eagles. Open the PDF to read about the final tally. YBT - 2018 EAC-CBC 10th annual 2018 - December 15 Point Reyes National Park/Seashore CBC -...
read more2019 Year round: Custom Sierra Nevada Mountains Birding for Small Groups, Individuals, Couples.
Sonora Pass Hwy 120 high elevation birding. Mountain Blue Bird Green-tail Towhee Day 1. | The morning starts with a 7:30 AM hotel pick up near a northern California airport-hotel or Home. If you live in northern...
read more2019 Point Reyes National Seashore, Custom Birding tailored to your schedule Northern California
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 Forest, Oak...
read more4/ 6 /19 Olompali State Park, Novato, Ca., Birding for FOS Spring Migrants
Bat Night 2019 is an annual event which happens first of August. This free event draws many families to an evening of education and fun for all, P.S. Bring the Grandparents The Olompali State Park is for five years now an Audubon Christmas Bird Count...
read more3/30/19: Larkspur Community Piper Park, Beginning Birding
During the fall many migrating birds pass through the Bay Area joining our resident population. This introduction to bird watching will combine a Saturday morning classroom discussions of bird identification and use of binoculars, scopes and field guides with 3...
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- 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.
Citizen Science Updates
Owens Lake Bird Festival April 26-28th 2019
Yellowbilled Tours will be The Key Note speaker presenting Owens Lake Arctic to the Tropics. On Saturday evening in Lone Pine California we'll review the birds which use Owens Lake as a rest and feeding stop over feeding before moving on to Central America. ...
read moreChristmas Bird Counts (CBC) and related Citizen Science initiatives by date
2018 - December 14 Eastern Alameda County Christmas Bird Count - Alameda Creek Watershed - Yellowbilled Magpies and Golden Eagles. Open the PDF to read about the final tally. YBT - 2018 EAC-CBC 10th annual 2018 - December 15 Point Reyes National Park/Seashore CBC -...
read more9/23/19: Hawaii, Island of Kauai & Honolulu, Birding in Paradise
A species near extinction on Hawaii Islands. New field trip to the Hawaii Islands of Kauai and Honolulu September 23, 2019 $1,895.00 cost includes all lodging, ground transportation, fuel and park entry fees. Airfare and meals not included. Registration is open and...
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