Tour Guide Contact Information:

Many of our Field Trip Leaders are professional guides specializing in the flora and fauna of the local area as well as internationally. If you will be spending a few days in this area either before or after the festival, you may want to contact them to act as your personal guide.

AZ Birding
(520) 320-9868
(888) 293-6443
www.AZ-Birding.com or www.wingsbirds.com
Email: wings@wingsbirds.com
Private guiding, tours, and workshops in southeast Arizona and around the world.

Peg Abbott
Naturalist Journeys
520-558-1146; (toll free) 866-900-1146
www.naturalistjourneys.com
Small Group Birding and Natural History Tours

Jeff Babson
Sky Island Tours
(520)488-8551
www.SkyIslandTours.com
Email: Jeff@SkyIslandTours.com
Field trips in southeastern Arizona for birds, butterflies, dragonflies, and general natural history.  Also classroom presentations.

Bob Behrstock
Naturewide Images
(520) 378-3262
www.naturewideimages.com
Email: rbehrstock@cox.net
Areas of interest: Birds, butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, general natural history
All levels of expertise welcome.

Matt Brown
The Patagonia Birding & Butterfly Co.
(520) 604-6300
www.lifebirds.com
Email: mattbrownbirds@gmail.com
Local birding and natural history guide, for individuals or small groups, specializing in vocal as well as visual recognition and identification of birds. Also looks for insects, mammals, herps, and plants, and talks a lot about the area when not looking at birds.

Homer M. Hansen
G.I.S.S. Series Identification Guides
www.aplomado.com
Email: hhansen@aplomado.com
Sparrows, Flycatchers, Warblers, Raptors: Offering private workshops and guided tours in southeast Arizona.

Glenn Minuth
(520) 378-0144
Email: minuthg@cox.net
Geology and ecology field trips. Mineral/rock identification, forest fire ecology, and sky island biogeography; also trip to the Catwalk, New Mexico.

Ted Mouras
Email: tedmouras@mindspring.com
Local natural history/birding tours. As retired military can escort non-US visitors onto Ft. Huachuca in search of such specialty birds as Elegant Trogon and Spotted Owl.

Scott Olmstead
Tropical Birding
www.tropicalbirding.com
Email:info@tropicalbirding.com
Set departure and custom birding tours around the world.
Less than a month after finishing college with a degree in Latin American Studies, Scott headed straight for Costa Rica, where he began learning the birds of Central America. When his money ran out, he returned home for a few seasons of fieldwork across the US, banding songbirds, counting migrating raptors, and studying eagle nests. In 2006, when he could stay away no longer, Scott came back to the Neotropics as a tour leader. He guides TB trips in Brazil and Ecuador, where he enjoys chasing elusive antpittas through the thick understory. Originally from Connecticut, Scott is now based in Arizona.

Mark Pretti
Mark Pretti Nature Tours
(520) 803-6889
www.markprettinaturetours.com
Email: mpnaturetours@earthlink.net
Local guide service in SE Arizona as well as tour groups in Arizona, Mexico, Belize, and Brazil.         

Stephen Shunk
Paradise Birding
541-549-8826
www.paradisebirding.com
Email:steve@paradisebirding.com   
Sisters, Oregon

Bill Stocku
(520) 378-0965
(520) 508-5663
Email: azbirdr@msn.com
Private tour guide for SE Arizona.  Over eleven years of experience leading elderhostel birding programs for Geronimo  Educational Travel. 

D. Wezil Walraven
Wezil Walraven Bird Tours LLC
Office: (888) 577-0433
Home: (828) 581-4592
www.wrensandravens.com
Email: wezil@wrensandravens.com
Senior Guide, High Lonesome Bird Tours. Specializing in Southwest US & Mexico

Tom Whetten
www.wildlifephototour.com
Email: twhetten@wildlifephototour.com

Sheri Williamson
Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory
(520) 432-1388
www.sabo.org
Private workshops and tours in southeast Arizona and northwest Mexico.
Hummingbirds, sparrows, raptors and natural history for all levels

Tom Wood
Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory
(520) 432-1388
www.sabo.org
Private workshops and guided tours in  southeast Arizona and northwestern Mexico.
Birding, general natural history for all levels