Yellowbilled Tours is a small group birding service in it’s 21st 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 birders per trip, to ensure a personalized experience.
Upcoming Field Trips
March 3, 2022 – Tropical Birding Trip: Belize and Guatemala. Belize is open to Birding groups with Covid19 protocols to be used.
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...
4/5/21: Texas, Birding, Southeast Spring Migration
New 2021 - this field trip is scheduled for April 5, 2021. Field trip is sold out. Reservations are being taken for April 2022. Why bird east Texas in the spring ? One reason is High Island and its warbler migrant fallout is so much different than birding...
4/20/2021 New Mexico Southern Rocky Mtn. and High Plains, Birding for Spring Migration. 2021 Field trip is sold out. Reservations being accepted for 2022 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.
2021 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 crate a field trip to meet your needs. A good region to...
5/1/21 France: The Camargue and Provence May 1th-May 8th, 2021
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Recent Trip Photos
California/Nevada Field Trips
2021 Olompali State Park, Novato, Ca., Birding staging for winter and early spring Migrants. This state park is open with Covid-19 requirements in place.
Olompali State Park Christmas Bird Count is December 14th, 2019. The Olompali State Park is for five years now an Audubon Christmas Bird Count section of the Cheep Thrill count. We enlisted birders with all levels of skills. Currently three of the five birder...
2021 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...
2021 Sierra Nevada Summer & Fall tailored to your schedule. Small Groups, Individuals, Couples.
New Field Trip: California Year Round - per your schedule! There are 673 bird species recorded in California. The reason for this diversity of species is the diversity of habitat. Counted among the habitat choices from west to east are; pelagic, coastal...
2021 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 crate a field trip to meet your needs. A good region to...
2021 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
2021 Olompali State Park, Novato, Ca., Birding staging for winter and early spring Migrants. This state park is open with Covid-19 requirements in place.
Olompali State Park Christmas Bird Count is December 14th, 2019. The Olompali State Park is for five years now an Audubon Christmas Bird Count section of the Cheep Thrill count. We enlisted birders with all levels of skills. Currently three of the five birder...
Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) and related Citizen Science initiatives by date using Covid-19 protocols
2020 - December 18th 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 2020 - December 19th Point Reyes National...
2019 Alameda Creek Restoration – Fisheries and Bird habitat improvements
The construction of the new Calaveras Dam near Sunol EBRP will allow year-round stream flows to be maintained, supporting a future Steelhead fishery in Alameda Creek. This re-watering of the Alameda Creek will provide rich enhancement of the oak/sycamore riparian...
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