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
5/TBD/20: Wisconsin, Birding, Spring Warbler & Whooping Crane Chase
YBT - Wisconsin 2020 field trip registration form 6.4.19 Birding Wisconsin, with its many wet habitats, is a great experience during spring migration. You arrive on Sunday May 5th. The field trip starts Monday morning May 6th ending May 10th. This is a small group...
read more1/18/20 and 3/3/20 Belize Birding two different field trips The Yucatan Pennsiula and Interior Tropical Birding
The January 18th Yucatan Peninsula and March 5th 2020 Belize and Guatemala Field trip is OPEN for registration! Two different regions two different field trips. Why Belize as a birding destination? For birders and bird photographers there are more than 580...
read moreFrance 2020: The Camargue and Provence May 5th-May 12th, 2020
We begin our European birding adventure on May 5th, by traveling to southern France via train from...
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 more4/12/20: Texas, Birding, Southeast Spring Migration
New 2020 - this field trip is scheduled for 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 spots,...
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Local Birding Activities
Owens Lake Bird Festival April 26-28th 2019
Yellowbilled Tours will be The Key Note speaker presenting Owens Lake Tundra to the Tropics. On Saturday evening in Lone Pine California we'll present the birds which use Owens Lake as a rest and feeding stop over feeding before moving on to Central America and...
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 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 moreWhat 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.
Citizen Science Updates
5/TBD/20: Wisconsin, Birding, Spring Warbler & Whooping Crane Chase
YBT - Wisconsin 2020 field trip registration form 6.4.19 Birding Wisconsin, with its many wet habitats, is a great experience during spring migration. You arrive on Sunday May 5th. The field trip starts Monday morning May 6th ending May 10th. This is a small group...
read moreOwens Lake Bird Festival April 26-28th 2019
Yellowbilled Tours will be The Key Note speaker presenting Owens Lake Tundra to the Tropics. On Saturday evening in Lone Pine California we'll present the birds which use Owens Lake as a rest and feeding stop over feeding before moving on to Central America and...
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 -...
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