Visit Alaska in 2024
Please contact us at info@texasbirds.org if you are interested in future Alaska trips.
Original trip description: Alaska - June 1-16, 2024 with Byron Stone and Randy Pinkston
Our itinerary was pioneered by TOS Past-President Jim Hailey. Birding destinations will include multiple days in Anchorage and Nome, two days in the Denali area, a brief visit to Utqiagvik in the Land of the Midnight Sun, and a boat trip for near-shore pelagic birds out of Seward.
The TOS Alaska trip in the summer of 2017 encountered 174 bird species, including Arctic and Aleutian Terns, Harlequin Duck, Pacific Loon, Red-necked Grebe, Arctic Warbler, 10 species of Alcids, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, and the amazing Bluethroat. Photos from that trip can give you an idea of what's to come. On the 2019 trip we had slightly fewer bird species (160), but more mammals including grizzlies, caribou, Dall sheep, and a lynx.
This is a rigorous birding trip with long days and lots of travel, much of it in isolated back country with no facilities, along gravel roads or improved trails. A few locations will require hiking over uneven ground on steep hillside.
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