Welcome to High Lonesome BirdTours
We're the small-group birding alternative to big, impersonal tour operators.
When you choose a High Lonesome tour, you'll become part of a community of discerning birders: people who want more from their birding experience than the average. We never forget that your tour is also your vacation, and we try hard to offer the best accomodation and food available in the area, consistent with keeping our prices affordable. That's why, as well as being noted for our experience in finding the best birds, we're also known for our relaxed style and frequent provision of gourmet food.
Why Do Discerning Birders Choose High Lonesome Tours?
- Experienced guides who love showing visitors their favorite birding spots.
- Guides who enjoy sharing their knowledge with everyone from the newest beginer to the most experienced birder.
- An approach that makes going the extra mile to make your tour special a routine expectation.
- Groups that are small enough to leave nobody out when that special bird is seen.
- Comfortable accomodation and great food.
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Bird Tours EXTRA
We know that many of our customers have wide interests in addition to birding. That's why we have introduced tours that we call Bird Tours EXTRA. Tours that offer something special in addition to great birding.
Whether it's gourmet food, stupendous acheological stites, fascinating architecture, great opportunities for photography, or the chance to enjoy unfamilar flora and dazzling butterflies, Bird Tours EXTRA add that additional something that turns a great holiday into the trip of a lifetime. Look for the Bird Tours EXTRA seal on trip descriptions or visit the page where all the tours are listed, together with the "extras" each one offers you.
- Enjoy the best of Mexican birding along with gourmet meals and five-star accomodation at Hacienda de Los Santos, a member of Leading Hotels of the World, located in the heart of Alamos, a town boasting some of the finest Spanish colonial architecture in Central America.
- Experience the true Mexico of rugged mountains, desert and unspoiled towns in the state of Sonora. Add the opportunity to see beautiful and colorful birds found nowhere else and a chance to sail on the Sea of Cortez in the company of wintering shore birds, rare gulls, seals and whales.
- Take a break from cold northern winters and welcome in the New Year in the warmth of southeastern Arizona, while staying right inside the famous Ramsey Canyon reserve. Great food, fine accomodation and a magnificent array of neotropical birds and northern raptors fleeing the same cold weather further north. This is one of the best tours we offer for the beginning birder, combining terrain that makes birds easy to spot with shorter days in the field and visits to historic towns like Bisbee.
- Dip your toe into the joys of neotropical birding by visiting the unspoiled forests and rivers of Belize, staying in the justly-renowned Chan Chich Lodge and Reserve, located on a 130,000 acre private nature reserve in northwestern Belize at the heart of "La Selva Maya." Walk in the footsteps of the ancient Mayans at the recently excavated ruins of Caracol. Glide down the river while birding in comfort: on our last trip to Lamanai, we found 200 species of birds in that general area in a two-day period.
Experience High Lonesome tours for yourself
If you haven't yet traveled with us, we invite you to choose a tour today and find out why so many of our customers return to our tours year after year.
If you're an old hand in the High Lonesome community, we're pleased to see you again and look forward to showing you more of the world's amazing birds.
Whoever you are — and whatever your level of experience and range of interests — you'll find something in our schedule to match your needs. Use the menu to the left to search by date or location, then make your reservation on-line.
I look forward to traveling with you!
Forrest Davis
President, High Lonesome BirdTours