Black Skimmers at Flamingo in Florida by Dave Irving.
LOCAL GUIDES and TOURS
The costs of organized tours partly reflect the quality of the tour leaders. Some leaders are certainly better than others and many companies claim their leaders are the best but even the best rely at least to some extent on the exceptional skills of the local guides and local tour operators they employ.
If you are travelling independently, employing such local guides and local tour operators will greatly increase your chances of seeing the birds and other wildlife you wish to see.
If you are a competent local guide or local tour operator and would like Advertise Here With Us please click on this link.
- NORTH AMERICA
- Arctic Canada
- Bathurst Inlet Lodge
- Alaska
- Wilderness Birding Adventures
- Since 1986, Wilderness Birding Adventures has led small groups throughout Alaska in search of birds, wildlife, and wild places. Specializing in remote destinations, unique experiences, and wilderness travel, we've been the company of choice for those wanting to bird Alaska with Alaskans.
- Western Canada
- Tide Rip Grizzly Tours
- For 18 years Tide Rip Grizzly Tours has been guiding grizzly bear tours into Knight Inlet. Early daily departures from Telegraph Cove, the original orca whale hotspot on northern Vancouver Island. We had a 97% sighting rate for grizzly bears in 2016. Lunch included amidst the splendour of Knight Inlet.
- Northern California
- Shearwater Journeys (pelagic boat trips)
- Bosque del Apache, New Mexico
- Friends of the Bosque del Apache NWR
- CENTRAL AMERICA and the CARIBBEAN
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Trinidad Birding
- SOUTH AMERICA
- Colombia
- Colombia Birding
- Ecoturs (ProAves)
- Chile
- Albatross Birding and Nature Tours in Chile
- We organize birding trips in all of Chile including Day Trips around the main cities and Pelagic Trips in several areas of the coast. We can arrange completely tailor-made trips that will be designed according to your wishes and needs.
- Falkland Islands
- Albatross Birding and Nature Tours
- We organize birding trips to King, Gentoo, Magellanic and Southern Rockhopper penguin colonies as well as Black-browed Albatross colonies and huge Elephant Seals hauled out on sandy beaches, and we look for other birds and wildlife including Southern Giant Petrels, Dolphin Gulls and endemic Falkland Steamer Ducks.
- Peru
- Peru Birding Tours
- We at Peru Birding Tours design, organize and run enjoyable and successful birding, photography and nature tours throughout Peru and South America, visiting the best places for birds and wildlife, and we look forward to welcoming and guiding you.
- AFRICA
- The Gambia
- Turaco Birding
- I am a Gambian and I have being guiding birding and nature tours in The Gambia and all over Senegal for twenty years. My company Turaco Birding is registered as a Ground Tour Operator in the Gambia and we have highly-trained other guides apart from myself.
- Kenya
- Birdwatching Kenya
- Birding Kenya with Moses Kandie.
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- Uganda
- Shoebill Safaris
- Shoebill SAFARIS is one of the leading eco-tour operators for bird watching, gorilla tracking and safaris. With over 1600 different bird species, Uganda is definitely a must for any bird watcher. From swamps and tropical forest to the rift Valley you are sure to record as many species as your eyes can see.
- EUROPE
- Estonia
- Natourest
- Spain
- Steve Fletcher
- Professional wildlife photographer and nature tour guide, offering customised birding or photographic tours, and living permanently in Extremadura.
- Portugal
- Birding in Portugal
- The name says it all, so come birding with the best!
- Knowledgeable, local, English-speaking Guides covering the whole of Portugal. Mirrored/open hides or “free-range”.
- In business for longer than anyone else in the country, (more than quarter of a century), so what we don’t know isn’t worth knowing ...
- Madeira
- Madeira Wind Birds
- Greece
- Greece Bird Tours
- Greece Bird Tours offers guided birdwatching tours around Athens, since 2003.
- You may enjoy Rueppell's Warbler, Sombre Tit, Cretzschmar's Bunting and Hoopoes just 30 min from your Athens city hotel.
- Feel free to read our recent trip reports and testimonials.
- Proudly received Trip Advisor 2017 Certificate of Excellence
- Email greecebirdtours@gmail.com
- ASIA
- China
- China Bird Tour
- China based birding tour company since 1999 specializing in providing local arrangements for worldwide birding companies and individual birders within China, including all hot spots.
- Jesper Hornskov at goodbirdmail@gmail.com or goodbirdmail@126.com
- Tibet
- China Bird Tour
- China based birding tour company since 1999 specializing in providing local arrangements for worldwide birding companies and individual birders within China, including all hot spots.
- Jesper Hornskov at goodbirdmail@gmail.com or goodbirdmail@126.com
- Northeastern India
- Greener Pastures - Northeast India Ecotourism
- Maldives
- The Whale and Dolphin Company
- Vietnam
- Vietnam Birding
- Cambodia
- Sam Veasna Center
- Malay Peninsula and Borneo
- Bird Malaysia
- by Birders, for Birders and the Birds
- “With over 25 years experience, Bird Malaysia offers the best spots and time for birds and the best accommodation for our fellow birdies. Our tours are designed to ensure a comfortable and successful birdwatching experience. We look forward to welcoming and guiding you through Malaysia!”
- Irshad Mobarak – Birder & founder.
- Nature2Pixel
- Nature2pixel plans and conducts recreational trips for wildlife watching and photography. Travel with us and explore our country to watch and take photographs of birds, butterflies and bugs. We are as enthusiastic as you are! Check us out at www.nature2pixel.com.
- Sulawesi and Halmahera
- Sultan Birding Tours
- Sultan Birding Tours based in Manado, North Sulawesi of Indonesia, specialized in operating bird photography, bird watching and wildlife trips within the island of Sulawesi, covering Tangkoko Nature Reserve, Gunung Mahawu Tomohon, Dumoga Bone National Park, Lore Lindu National Park, Halmahera and other birding destinations in Indonesia.
- Christmas Island
- Island Explorer Holidays
- AUSTRALASIA and OCEANIA
- West Papua
- Papua Bird Club
- Papua Expeditions
- Papua New Guinea
- Trans Niugini Tours
- Trans Niugini Tours (TNT) is Papua New Guinea’s leading inbound tour operator, owning six wilderness lodges in Papua New Guinea. At each of TNTs' lodges are comprehensive cultural or birding programs. With over 30 years of operating in PNG, you can be assured of a consistently high service while with TNTs.
- Eastern Australia
- Daintree Boatman Nature Tours
- New Zealand
- Aurora Charters (Stewart Island)
- Ulva's Guided Walks (Stewart Island)
- Hawaii
- Hawaii Forest and Trail
