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2018 Travel Schedule Eagle-Eye Tours Travel with Vision ABOUT EaGLE-EYE TOURS TOURS BY REGION Over 20 years! Tranquilo tours T We have been a leading birding tour operator for over Are you looking for tours that offer great birding 20 years. While our offerings have evolved over the past while minimizing how often you change locations? two decades, our commitment to offering high quality Our Tranquilo tours are a perfect choice. We have tours has not changed. We hope you will share our designed each tour to stay at only one or two great excitement about another suite of upcoming tours. locations. That means less packing and travel, more We continue to strive to offer innovative, exciting and birding, and more opportunity to relax on the veranda, rewarding experiences worldwide. You will see several watching feeders if you need a little down time. new and revised tours inside to a variety of destinations. Wildlife Tours Committed to Conservation This year we are highlighting our tours that are Our vision for our tours includes a committment focused on great wildlife sightings beyond birds. We to supporting environmental conservation. We just will still look at the birds, but the focus is on other celebrated being carbon-neutral for 10 years. We are great wildlife. Narwhal, walrus, bears, orca and much now a member of 1% For The Planet, donating 1% more, these are exciting tours! Look on the following of our revenue to environmental causes. We have a pages for tours marked with this bear icon. partnership with Bird Studies Canada long-standing New or Returning Tours for 2018 NEW where we offer the Grand Prize for their national Baillie Birdathon. A portion of the revenue from this year’s Baffin Island Walrus & Bowheads Canadian Rockies and Alberta Birds & Dinosaurs Churchill Birds & Belugas tours will be donated to Bird Studies Canada. Cape May Migration North Carolina We also donate to support the great work Cambodia & Vietnam of several other organizations, including the Colombia American Bird Conservancy, the Kaua’i Forest Iceland Cruise Bird Recovery Project and the Wings Over the Portugal Birds & Culture Rockies Bird Festival. Look inside for several Western India spots where we highlight these connections. Join us on Social Media Support for conservation ABC BSC Visit www.facebook.com/eagleeyetours for photos from We make an extra effort on several of our tours recent tours, discussions, news and our latest promotions. to support conservation organizations and You can also find us on: bird reserves. We are supporting Bird Studies Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest! Canada (www.birdscanada.org) with our tour We look forward to welcoming you on to Central Mexico led by BSC’s Jody Allair. an Eagle-Eye Tours adventure in 2018! “Polar Bear.....” Cover image: TOURS BY REGION North America Page Australasia & South Pacific Alberta Birds & Dinosaurs 4 Australia 35 Baffin Island Walrus & Bowheads 10 New Zealand 34 Baffin Island Floe Edge 2 Asia Belugas, Bears & Birds 5 Cambodia & Vietnam 36 British Columbia 9 Western India 36 California 15 Russian Far East Voyage 23 Canadian Rockies 4 Cape May Migration 16 Europe Colorado & Utah 13 England Birds & Gardens: Southeast 37 Expedition Cruises 18-25 Portugal: Birds & Culture 37 Florida 14 Africa Hawaii 12 Namibia, Botswana & Victoria Falls 38 High Arctic & NWT 3 South Africa: The Cape 39 Manitoba Owls 6 South Africa: The Subtropics 39 New Brunswick & Grand Manan 11 Uganda 38 Newfoundland 8 North Carolina 13 Point Pelee & Algonquin Park 6 Quebec 11 Saskatchewan Whooping Cranes 7 South Texas 14 Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean Belize & Tikal 30 Central Mexico 26 Costa Rica Sampler 29 Costa Rica 29 Cuba 27 Dominica & St. Lucia 28 Galapagos Cruise 23 Puerto Rico 28 Southern Mexico 26 Trinidad & Tobago 30 South America Guyana 31 Patagonia Wildlife Safari 32 Colombia 33 Cover: Northern Saw-whet Owl Dalmatian Pelican, India Inside Cover: Vatnajökull Glacier, Iceland 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 when 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 15 – 22, 2018 (8 DAYS ) WITH CAM GILLIES $5,495 USD, $6,675 CAD + GST COMBINE THIS TOUR W ITH OUR WALRUS & BO W HEADS TOUR (PA G E 10) 2 Polar bears, Baffin Island Floe Edge 2017 © Cam Gillies Snowy Owl High Arctic & Northwest Territories Boreal forest to Arctic tundra This unique tour and perennial favourite takes in three different areas; the exquisite high Arctic tundra above the Arctic Circle and far north of the tree line, the boreal forest and lakes around Yellowknife, NWT and the aspen parkland and potholes of Central Alberta. We encounter a diverse array of birds and mammals, from King Eiders to Pacific Loons, Snowy Owls to Northern Saw-whet and Great Gray Owls, Long-tailed Jaegers to Sabine’s Gulls, and muskox to arctic foxes. At Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island, Yellow-billed Loons nest on remote lakes, Red-necked and Red Phalaropes in resplendent summer plumage inhabit ponds, Tundra Swans and Sandhill Cranes enliven the tundra and a scarce nesting species such as Buff-breasted or Purple Sandpiper may show up. The area is steeped in history and culture, from explorers searching for the Northwest Passage to the Inuit of the western Arctic. The high quality and exciting wildlife viewing make for a long-remembered tour! JUNE 28 – JULY 8, 2018 (11 DAYS ) WITH YOUSIF ATTIA $5,495 USD, $6,675 CAD + GST Call for more information 1-800-373-5678 3 NORTH AMERICA Canadian Rockies Alberta Birds & Dinosaurs Canadian Rockies Prairie birds and fascinating fossils Impressive wildlife amongst stunning landscapes Amazing landscapes, great birds, and one of the richest Join us as we explore Waterton Lakes National Park, dinosaur fossil sites in the world. The bulk of our truly one of the most beautiful mountain parks in North days will be spent exploring the Red Deer River Valley America. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site badlands and adjacent prairies around Drumheller in 1995, Waterton has a great combination of stunning and Dinosaur Provincial Park. Breeding season will mountain vistas, clear lakes, thundering waterfalls and be in full swing in this amazing region of central rainbow coloured streams. Known as the place where the Alberta, and birding will be the focus each morning. mountains meet the prairies, the unique environments We will explore several unique habitats including present in the park make it one of the most ecologically Prairie sloughs, riparian Cottonwood forests, and the diverse regions in the Rocky Mountains. Breeding desert-like conditions of the badlands. Our afternoons season will be in full swing and birding will be the will be spent learning about the unique geology and focus each morning. The bulk of our days will be spent natural history of the region at Dinosaur Provincial exploring the foothills and mountains of Kananaskis Park and the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. and Waterton, along with stops to explore prairie MAY 26 – 30, 2018 (5 DAYS ) sloughs and the culturally significant Head-Smashed- WITH JODY ALLAIR In Buffalo Jump. In addition to birding we will have $1,225 USD, $1,475 CAD + GST the opportunity to see lots of mammals including Elk, Bighorn Sheep and possibly even Grizzly Bears. COMBINE THESE T W O TOURS AND SAVE ! MAY 29 – JUNE 3, 2018 (6 DAYS ) WITH JODY ALLAIR $1,450 USD, $1,750 CAD + GST 4 Belugas, Bears & Birds NEW Wildlife of Riding Mountain and Churchill This tour takes in two incredible areas of Manitoba – the prairies and boreal forest of the south and the tundra and arctic ocean of Churchill. Our first location is the boreal forest of Riding Mountain National Park. Here we explore the park in search of forest birds plus mammals including black bear, moose, elk, red fox, and beaver. A variety of warblers along with a diverse suite of other birds can be found in the varied habitat of this park. We fly north to Churchill in search of belugas and other arctic wildlife. Every year, tremendous numbers of beluga whales gather in the waters of the Churchill river. We take two boat trips to observe the whales and hear their vocalizations via hydrophone. Exploring the tundra, we also have a chance to find arctic fox and hare and with luck, even a polar bear! This is also prime time for arctic breeding birds. Loons, eiders, shorebirds, longspurs and much more will all be making the most of the arctic summer. JUNE 27– JULY 5, 2018 (9 DAYS ) WITH KEN DE SMET $2,765 USD, $3,350 CAD + GST Beluga watching © Pierre Richard Learn more online at www.eagle-eye.com 5 NORTH AMERICA Black-and-white Warbler Manitoba Owls Point Pelee & Algonquin Park Excellent chances of finding northern owls Southern Ontario’s famous migration Southeastern Manitoba is one of the premier locations spectacle and boreal birds on the continent for finding northern boreal forest On this exciting tour of beautiful Ontario, we will owls.

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