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
Tropical Birding Trip: Belize and Guatemala
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 2020 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. 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,...
4/20/2021 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 spring migration into Mexico is a field trip to remember.
2020 Nevada – 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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California/Nevada Field Trips
TBD /2020 Olompali State Park, Novato, Ca., Birding staging for (?) early fall Migrants. This state park is closed due to C-19 virus until further notice.
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...
2020 Point Reyes National Seashore & local hot spots, 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...
2020 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 sage-scrub,...
2020 Nevada – 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...
2020 Summer Birding Sierra Nevada Mountains & Sierra Lakes – Small Groups, Individuals, Couples.
NMono Lake Sunrise Sonora Pass Hwy 120 high elevation birding. Mountain Blue Bird American Dipper Green-tail Towhee There are 673 bird species recorded in California. The reason for this diversity of...
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
TBD /2020 Olompali State Park, Novato, Ca., Birding staging for (?) early fall Migrants. This state park is closed due to C-19 virus until further notice.
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
2019 - December 13 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 2019 - December 14 Point Reyes National Park/Seashore CBC -...
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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