Dates & Pricing

In Partnership with San Diego Bird Alliance February 22-26, 2025 Price: $2095 per person sharing a room Single room supplement: $375 Guide: Steve Huggins Maximum of 7 participants

San Diego Birding Festival pre-tour:

Condors & Corvids

This tour, in partnership with San Diego Bird Alliance, is designed to perfectly complement the San Diego Bird Festival, visiting Southern California hotspots and seeing California birds that that are different from those that you may see at the festival. This includes birds like the endangered California Condor, the endemic corvids Yellow-billed Magpie and Island Scrub Jay, generally rare birds like LeConte’s Thrasher, established exotic species like Red-whiskered Bulbul and Yellow-chevroned Parakeet, and some seabirds that you are unlikely to see if you are not joining a pelagic tour during the festival.

The tour starts and ends at the official festival hotel, making for a seamless transition from tour to festival. It maintains a comfortable pace without being rushed and participants will enjoy birding in a variety of habitats around some less-visited parts of Southern California.

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