Eiders and Buntings and Owls, Oh My!
Our 2024 Alaska tour season is off to a great start! As we have since 2017, we began with our annual trip to Kodiak Island and tacked on a quick trip up to Nome. Most visiting birders don't make time…
Spring Fever Birding: Kodiak and Nome
We've just completed our annual early spring trip to Kodiak and Nome for a week of great birding! Since 2017, this trip has marked the beginning of our year of birding tours in Alaska. After a long winter, we get…
Last Minute Tour Opening!
We have had a very last minute cancellation to our early spring trip to Kodiak Island and Nome, March 23-28, 2018. This short tour will focus on the wintering waterbirds of Kodiak, including hundreds of Emperor Geese and finish with…
Weekend in Nome: McKay's Buntings!
It's not often that folks would consider 15 species for a day of birding a successful outing. When birding Nome in November, however, things are a little different. And when that list includes McKay's Bunting, Spectacled Eider, Gyrfalcon, and Rock…
Adak and Nome Trip Report (November 16-22, 2014)
A Pacific Wren chatters at our feet as we scan the waters of Kuluk bay for auklets. Photo Lucas DeCicco. We've been leading trips to Adak in the spring since 2008, but have been intrigued by it's fall and early…
New Fall Birding Opportunities: Adak and Nome!
We've just added two new trips to our growing fall line-up of Alaskan trips. The first, "Adak: Whooper Swans, Whiskered Auklet and Waterfowl," takes us back to Adak Island to search for some of the very special wintering birds of…