Eco-Tours: See Birds of the World

Travel with Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania

Upcoming trips:

Costa Rica - TRIP IS FULL - March 25 - April 4, 2025. Get full details here! ASWP's Eco-Tour program is heading back to Costa Rica for a trip that showcases a number of birding hotspots including Caribbean lowlands, premontane forest, tropical dry forest, mangroves, and páramo. 

We'll be hiking and riding boats--as well as navigating an exciting hanging bridge canopy tour. Our expert Costa Rican birding guide will assist us in looking for resident birds as well as migrant species throughout our time in the country.



Kansas - April 2025: This experience will feature Prairie Chickens on their lek and two Globally Important Wetlands that support scores of shorebirds and waterfowl in migration.

Southern California - September 2025. This trip encompasses all that Southern California has to offer, featuring Santa Cruz Island and the Salton Sea.


If you're interested in learning about upcoming trips, sign up for travel-related emails by contacting: [email protected]



Past domestic experiences have included:

South Florida, the Keys and Dry Tortugas; Sky Islands of Southeast Arizona; Colorado, From the Prairies to the Rockies; Rio Grande Valley; Southern California and the Salton Sea; Maine’s Bold Coast; Washington’s Puget Sound and Cascades.

And International experiences have featured:

Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Tanzania, and Columbia.


Some memorable participant experiences have included:

“After hours of searching, Brian located a small group of White-collared Seedeaters for our group of 16 participants at La Laja Ranch”
along the Rio Grande River in Laredo, Texas
“A magnificent Mangrove Cuckoo perched atop a Black Mangrove”
Key Largo, Florida
“Nesting Atlantic Puffins carrying mouthfuls of herring into their burrows on Machias Seal Island”
Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada
“An adult female Coyote returning to her den of pups”
Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO
“The thunderous roar of the morning flight of Snow Geese at Bosque Del Apache NWR”
San Antonio, NM
“The exhilaration of seeing a Great Gray Owl perched on a snag in Sax Zim Bog”
Minnesota
“Waves crashing against the bow of the boat as we watch thousands of Sooty Shearwaters, a dozen Black-footed Albatross, and even a South Polar Skua”
Pacific Ocean, 60 miles offshore of Monterey, California