Alaska Birding

• Full-day birding and wildlife cruise in Kenai Fjords National Park
• Unique northern and migratory birds in their arctic breeding grounds
• Explore the dramatic arctic tundra in Nome and Barrow
• Look for Alaska’s amazing megafauna including bears, whales, sheep, moose, and more
• Revel in the long days of the northern summer

Tour Overview

Alaska is famed for its stunning scenery, amazing megafauna, breathtaking birds, and long summer days! Our Alaska birding tour explores a diversity of habitats and ecosystems that dreams are made of. From the productive summer tundra of Nome, to standing on the edge of the the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, the glacial carved fjords of Kenai Fjords National Park, and the stunning spruce and hemlock forests of the Chugach Mountains and Kenai Peninsula, Alaska’s beauty is profound.

This tour is a nature-lovers paradise, with chances to see mammals like Grizzly Bear, Moose, Muskox, Orca, Humpback Whale, Caribou, Thinhorn Sheep, Black Bear, Steller’s Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, Sea Otter, Brown Lemming and more!

Summer in Alaska attracts breeding birds in the millions and we will travel to some of the best birding locations in not only the state but in the entire country! From Anchorage, to Seward to Nome and Barrow, you will be blown away by an array of unique birds in their beautiful breeding colors.

Birds on this tour include Bald Eagle, Horned and Tufted Puffins, Marbled, Ancient, and Kittlitz’s Murrelet, Long-tailed and Harlequin Ducks, Aleutian and Arctic Terns, all four of the Eider species (Steller’s, Spectacled, Common and King), all three Jaeger species (Pomarine, Parasitic and Long-tailed), Bristle-thighed Curlew, and Emperor Goose. Other big targets on this tour include Gyrfalcon, Snowy Owl, Arctic Warbler, American Dipper, Rufous Hummingbird, Townsend’s Warbler, Northern Wheatear, Bluethroat, Rock and Willow Ptarmigan, White-winged and Red Crossbill, Pine Grosbeak, Slaty-backed Gull, Black-legged Kittiwake, Red-faced Cormorant, and Black-backed Woodpecker. Alaska is in a league of its own, let us show you the best of what it has to offer!