Joint tour with High Lonesome BirdTours and Rockjumper Tours

Barrow is the northernmost city in the United States, perched at the meeting point of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. The city offers some of the most productive access to high arctic tundra and the Arctic Ocean, while providing comfortable hotels, a variety of restaurants, and a thriving Iñupiaq community. This short trip is timed to witness one of the most special migrations in all of North America, that of the Ross’s Gull. Every fallthousands of Ross’s Gulls migrate along the coast near Barrow, offering an unrivalled spectacle of the rare and beautiful. The number of gulls varies per day and is usually higher during inclement weather, but we can expect to see singles to dozens.

Ross’s Gull, by Stephan Lorenz

Birding in the far Aleutian Islands amidst stunning volcanoes where we might find Asian vagrants along with Whiskered Auklets, Kittlitz’s Murrelets and Laysan Albatrosses.

Birding the “Galapagos of the North” with huge colonies of Horned & Tufted Puffins, Least, Crested & Parakeet Auklets, Red-faced Cormorants and the rare Red-legged Kittiwake as well as opportunities for Asian vagrants migrating along the “Siberian Express”

Photo: Crested Auklet  St. Paul Island  by Colin Bradshaw

Join us for this comprehensive, discounted tour to fhree of North America’s most productive birding destinations: St. Paul Island, Gambell and Nome. Nowhere else can so many breeding birds and potential Asian vagrants be seen. St. Paul Island hosts a huge colony of seabirds including Red-legged Kittiwakes, Red-faced Cormorants and several species of alcids. Gambell’s regular birds–Emperor Goose; Spectacled and Steller’s Eiders; Arctic and Yellow-billed Loon; Ivory Gull; Common Ringed Plover; White Wagtail–are alone worth the trip not to the mention the possibility of seeing vagrants that are blown in from the “Siberian Express” migratory route. Nome provides the only access to specialties such as Bristle-thighed Curlew; Bar-tailed Godwit; Bluethroat; Eastern Yellow Wagtail.

Discount of $1175 has been applied for booking this combination.

Photo: Great Knot by Phil Davis

Birding the far north 35 miles from Siberia for Alaska specialties and Asian vagrants. This is also an opportunity to experience life in a Siberian Yupik subsistence village, few of which survive anymore. Up to five more nights can be added at additional cost.

Photo:  Great Knot    Gambell, Alaska  by: Phil Davis

Experience a breeding extravaganza like you’ve never seen with thousands of migrants moving in during the Spring to nest along the shores and in the high tundra of the Seward Peninsula. Access these birds over 300 miles of dirt road.

Photo: Bluethroat   Nome, Alaska   by Carl Sheely

Experience a breeding extravaganza like you’ve never seen with thousands of migrants moving in during the Spring to nest along the shores and in the high tundra of the Seward Peninsula. Access these birds over 300 miles of dirt road. 

Photo: Bristle-thighed Curlew   Nome, Alaska   by Colin Bradshaw

Birding the “Galapagos of the North” with huge colonies of Horned & Tufted Puffins, Least, Crested & Parakeet Auklets, Red-faced Cormorants and the rare Red-legged Kittiwake as well as opportunities for Asian vagrants migrating along the “Siberian Express”. This is a joint trip with Rockjumper Tours.

Photo: Crested Auklet  St. Paul Island  by Colin Bradshaw

Nome lies on the Seward Peninsula and juts into the Bering Sea. It’s a frontier town in a world where few such curiosities remain. Our trip to magnificent Denali National Park and the wilderness surrounding it is as much about large mammals, and a big (!) mountain, as it is about birds.

Note: This is a combined tour with our partners at Rockjumper Tours

Photo: Bristle-thighed Curlew by Stephan Lorenz

Trip to spectacular Denali National Park, then Denali Highway, the most scenic road in North America; then to Kenai Peninsula and Kenai Fjords National Park by boat. Enjoy the best of Alaska restaurants!

Photo: Alaska Range, Denali Highway by F. Davis

This farthest northern town in the US is situated along the Arctic Ocean. It’s the best place to find Spectacled and Steller’s Eiders as well as Polar Bears in the US.

This tour covers two unique habitats in Alaska: Barrow on the Arctic Ocean; and, Kenai Fjords National Park in the Gulf of Alaska. They provide very different views of Alaska and its spectacular coastline.

Photo: Spectacled Eider by Stephan Lorenz

Journey to the Aleutian Islands and the largest fishing port in North America. Surrounded by spectacular mountains and wedged beween the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean, this is the best place to find Whiskered Auklet by boat.

Photo: Whiskered Auklet by Kirk Zufelt