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2019 Travel Schedule Eagle-Eye Tours Travel with Vision ABOUT EAGLE-EYE TOURS TOURS BY REGION Birding & Travel New Tours for 2019 NEW Eagle-Eye Tours was born from a love of birding Baffin Island: Walrus & Bowheads and travel. We have travelled to all the continents Ireland Circumnavigation seeing an incredible array of birds and other amazing Iceland to Greenland Cruise wildlife and have many great stories to tell. Indonesia Cruise: Whale Sharks & Birds of Paradise These experiences create the fabric of adventure. A surprise Ross’s Gull at the floe edge, a well woven tale Lesser Antilles from Iceland, a quiet float through the mangroves, or a Tranquilo tours T myriad of hummingbirds at the feeders. We feel privileged to share them all. Why not join us to add to your story? Are you looking for tours that offer great birding while minimizing how often you change locations? Inside you will see that we continue to offer small Our Tranquilo tours are a perfect choice. We have group tours with experienced leaders to spectacular designed each tour to stay at only one or two great destinations around the globe. We hope you will locations. That means less packing and travel, more join us on one of our extraordinary tours! birding, and more opportunity to relax on the veranda, Read Reviews Online watching feeders if you need a little down time. Want to see what our customers are saying Wildlife Tours about our tours? Visit us online to read reviews collected by Trustpilot. We have highlighted some our tours that are focused on great wildlife sightings beyond birds. Committed to Conservation We will still look at the birds, but the focus is on We believe it is important to give back to help conserve other great wildlife. Narwhal, walrus, bears, orca the birds and other wildlife that we so enjoy. To this and much more, these are exciting tours! end, we donate to organizations working on conservation Join us on Social Media of birds or their habitat. Whether it is conserving Visit www.facebook.com/eagleeyetours for photos from endangered habitat, supporting action on climate change recent tours, discussions, news and our latest promotions. or sending binoculars to researchers in the tropics, we You can also find us on: are striving to help the conservation of birds worldwide. Twitter and Instagram! Responsible travel is important to us. Whenever We look forward to welcoming you on possible we step off the beaten path to visit the an Eagle-Eye Tours adventure in 2019! locally owned establishments and hire local guides to bring greater benefit to the local communities. Happy travels, Cam Gillies and the Eagle-Eye Team We have a long-standing partnership with Bird Studies Canada where we offer the Grand Prize for their national Great Canadian Birdathon. A portion of the revenue from this year’s Southern Ecuador tour will be donated to Bird Studies Canada. BSC “Polar Bear.....” Cover image: TOURS BY REGION North America Page Patagonia Wildlife Safari 32 Alberta Birds & Dinosaurs 4 Patagonia Photo Tour 32 Baffin Island Floe Edge 2 Ecuador 30-31 Baffin Island Walrus & Bowheads 10 Australasia & South Pacific British Columbia 8 Australia 39 California 13 New Zealand 38 Canadian Rockies 4 Asia Cape May Migration 13 Bhutan 41 Churchill & Southern Manitoba 3 Borneo 40 Colorado & Utah 11 Malaysia 40 Expedition Cruises 16-27 Russian Far East Voyage 26 Florida 14 Thailand 41 Hawaii 12 High Arctic & NWT 3 Europe Manitoba Owls 6 England Birds & Gardens: Southwest 37 New Brunswick & Grand Manan 9 Netherlands & Belgium 37 Newfoundland 9 Spain 38 North Carolina 11 Africa Point Pelee & Algonquin Park 5 Namibia, Botswana & Victoria Falls 42 Quebec in Fall 7 South Africa: The Cape 43 Saskatchewan Whooping Cranes 6 South Africa: The Subtropics 43 South Texas 14 Uganda 42 Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean Antarctica Belize & Tikal 35 Antarctica 24-25 Central Mexico 33 Costa Rica Sampler 34 Costa Rica 34 Cuba 35 Lesser Antilles 36 Panama 29 Southern Mexico 33 Trinidad & Tobago 36 South America Brazil 31 Galapagos Cruise 25 Guyana 29 Cover: Atlantic Puffin Inside Cover: Snow Bunting Anna’s Hummingbird NORTH AMERICA Baffin Island Floe Edge: Narwhals & Polar Bears Exciting adventure with unique wildlife, rich culture and mountain landscapes Rugged mountains, stunning glaciers, flocks of northern seabirds, the wonderful narwhal and Inuit culture – this is what awaits us on a truly amazing tour to the wilderness of northern Baffin Island. We experience this dramatic Arctic landscape where the sun never sets and wildlife is returning to this very rich area of the Arctic. There are northern birds in abundance, including Thick-billed Murre, Black- legged Kittiwake, and King and Common Eiders. Other highlights include Sabine’s Gulls, Red-throated Loon and with luck, the much sought-after Ivory Gull! The mixing of ocean currents from Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound results in very rich marine life! Sea ice is melting back and marine mammals are traveling north along the ice floe edge where food is concentrated. We will look for several species of seals, the amazing spiral-tusked narwhal and, with luck, polar bear and bowhead whale. Wild Arctic landscapes, rich northern wildlife and fascinating culture – this promises to be the experience of a lifetime! JUNE 4 – 11, 2019 (8 DAYS) WITH ADAM WALLEYN $6,075 USD, $6,950 CAD + GST Polar bear2 viewing, Baffin Island Floe Edge 2018 © Cam Gillies High Arctic & Northwest Territories Churchill & Southern Manitoba Boreal forest to Arctic tundra Exceptional birding at a premier birding hotspot! This unique tour and perennial favourite takes in three Willow Ptarmigan and Smith’s Longspurs are different areas; the exquisite high Arctic tundra above on open tundra, Pacific Loons and eiders in the Arctic Circle and far north of the tree line, the ponds, Snow and Ross’s Geese along shorelines, boreal forest and lakes around Yellowknife, NWT and Nelson’s Sparrows and Yellow Rails in marshes, the aspen parkland and potholes of Central Alberta. Gray-cheeked Thrushes and Harris’s Sparrows We encounter a diverse array of birds and mammals, in stunted coniferous forests, and Connecticut from King Eiders to Pacific Loons, Snowy Owls to Warblers and Great Gray Owls in Boreal Forest. Northern Saw-whet and Great Gray Owls, Long-tailed Our tour coincides with the migration of species which Jaegers to Sabine’s Gulls, and muskox to arctic foxes. breed in the High Arctic, such as Red Phalarope, Long- At Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island, Yellow-billed Loons tailed and Pomarine Jaegers, and Sabine’s Gull. Coupled nest on remote lakes, Red-necked and Red Phalaropes with the bird-rich prairies, where we look for Baird’s in resplendent summer plumage inhabit ponds, Tundra Sparrow, Chestnut-collared Longspur and Sprague’s Swans and Sandhill Cranes enliven the tundra and a scarce Pipit, are the amazing mixed forests of Riding Mountain, nesting species such as Buff-breasted or Purple Sandpiper which hold several big mammals such as Moose, Elk and may show up. The area is steeped in history and culture, Black Bear. This is a very diverse and rewarding tour! from explorers searching for the Northwest Passage to the MAY 24 – JUNE 5, 2019 (13 DAYS) Inuit of the western Arctic. The high quality and exciting WITH KEN DE SMET wildlife viewing make for a long-remembered tour! $3,565 USD, $4,195 CAD + GST JUNE 29 – JULY 9, 2019 (11 DAYS) WITH YOUSIF ATTIA $5,675 USD, $6,675 CAD + GST Ruddy Turnstone Learn more online at www.eagle-eye.com 3 NORTH AMERICA Alberta Birds & Dinosaurs Canadian Rockies Prairie birds and fascinating fossils Impressive wildlife amongst stunning landscapes Amazing landscapes, great birds, and one of the Join us as we explore the breathtaking mountains richest dinosaur fossil sites in the world. The bulk of Kananaskis Valley and Banff National Park. This of our days will be spent exploring the Red Deer stunning landscape is part of the Canadian Rocky River Valley badlands and adjacent prairies around Mountain Parks UNESCO World Heritage Site. It Drumheller and Dinosaur Provincial Park. Breeding has a great combination of stunning mountain vistas, season will be in full swing in this amazing region of turquoise lakes, thundering waterfalls, fast moving central Alberta, and birding will be the focus each rivers and some incredible birds like Harlequin morning. We will explore several unique habitats Duck, Clark’s Nutcracker and Western Tanager. including Prairie sloughs, riparian Cottonwood forests, Breeding season will be in full swing and we will and the desert-like conditions of the badlands. explore the foothills and mountains of Kananaskis Our afternoons will be spent learning about Valley and Banff National Park, along with stops the unique geology and natural history of the to explore some wonderfully diverse prairie region at Dinosaur Provincial Park and the sloughs. In addition to birding we will have the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. opportunity to see lots of mammals including MAY 25 – 29, 2019 (5 DAYS) Elk, Bighorn Sheep and possibly even bears. WITH JODY ALLAIR MAY 28 – JUNE 2, 2019 (6 DAYS) $1,185 USD, $1,395 CAD + GST WITH JODY ALLAIR $1,440 USD, $1,695 CAD + GST COMBINE THESE TWO TOURS AND SAVE! Dinosaur4 Provincial Park Magnolia Warbler, Point Pelee Magnolia Warbler, Point Pelee & Algonquin Park Southern Ontario’s famous migration spectacle and boreal birds On this exciting tour of beautiful Ontario, we will rendezvous with the myriad of neotropical and other migrants whose arrival coincides with our own. At Lake Erie’s “Big 3” migration hotspots—Point Pelee, Rondeau and Long Point—we search for species such as Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-eyed Vireo, Kentucky, Hooded and Prothonotary Warblers; during some spring migrations, up to 35 species We have joined an elite group of of warblers may be observed at Point Pelee alone! businesses as a member of 1% for the Planet.