Wild Latitudes

21/02/2024

Our India tour recently wrapped up, and it was an amazing trip! So many once-in-a-lifetime experiences...

07/10/2023

A Frilled Coquette we saw a few days ago on our Brazil tour!

01/10/2023

Our group in Brazil is having a great time!

16/04/2023

This massive female is returning to the after laying her eggs…
Far north coast of Trinidad. Our tour here is going really well!

16/04/2023

Wild Latitudes is in Trinidad and Tobago! The wonderful staff of Asa Wright sends us off in style!
We shall return!!

12/05/2022

We had a great time on our Southwest Oregon tour! The weather was wetter and cooler than normal, but this bunch of happy travelers had wonderful attitudes. We saw lots of birds, wildflowers, and gorgeous natural scenery.

Photo by Richard Navarrette, 2nd from left.

02/09/2021

Our recent tour to Iceland in late June was a great success! We got good weather (almost hot on a couple days!) and saw countless wonderful birds. And we had an amazing up-close encounter with an Arctic Fox! Iceland never fails to impress.

23/06/2021

We had a spectacular tour of Alaska! Kenai-Fjords National Park, Denali National Park, and Nome. It's great to be venturing out into the world once again, to see birds and other wild creatures!

14/05/2021

14/05/2021

Wild Latitudes is back in action! Our tour of Cape May, New Jersey has gone wonderfully. This is a fantastic place to be for spring migration!

13/01/2021

Happy 2021 from Ivan and Steve, the "Wild LatiDudes!"

We're hoping to see you and travel with you this year—to get back out there with the birds, wildlife, and landscapes of our beautiful world.

23/06/2020

We explored the beautiful Malheur National Wildlife Refuge recently. Here are some photos we took at this birding and nature hotspot in Oregon.

30/03/2020

Hello, Facebook friends! We hope that you are all well and taking care of yourselves and each other. Let's try to keep enjoying nature in our yards and local natural areas. We've been happy to see our birds getting very active around here!

You can also bird from your window, if you don’t have a backyard.

13/02/2020

Our tour in Borneo, led by Steve Robertson, is going great. The group saw this Wallace's Hawk-eagle eating a rodent. This is one of the smallest eagle species in the world.

13/02/2020

Birds: Fighting Crime on the High Seas...

By utilizing the majestic birds to monitor huge swaths of the sea, law enforcement and conservationists could keep better tabs on illicit activities

13/01/2020

The convergence of advanced technologies is allowing scientists to use the sounds of birds to study their distributions and more.

From the article: "Bioacoustics has been used to track whales, bats and frogs, and even monitor submarines and measure urban noise. But the practice has turned out to be particularly effective for studying birds. That’s because their songs are so clear and consistent that recordings now can be mined for powerful scientific data."

Ornithologists use the science to focus on species struggling with habitat loss, urban hazards and climate change.

08/01/2020

Audubon Action Alert: Defend America's Most Important Bird Law

Let's restore some protection for America's wonderful birds. Contact your local U.S. representative using this quick form...

Ask your U.S. Representative to defend America's most important bird protection law, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

07/01/2020

95% of Koalas Are Gone—Here’s How to Help the Animals Impacted by the Australian Wildfires

If you want to help wildlife in Australia that is suffering from the ongoing fires, here is some info on organizations you can donate to...

According to the WWF, only 5% of koalas remain.

07/01/2020

How birdwatching changed in the 2010s - BirdWatching

Things have changed for sure. Mostly for the better!

Birdwatching changed in a variety of ways in the 2010s, from how we watch birds to how scientists study them to media representations of birds.

06/01/2020

Two puffins scratched their itches with sticks -- the first evidence that seabirds can use tools

So cool! We must look for this tool-using behavior in Puffins when we're back in Iceland this summer.

From the original scientific paper: "We describe a previously unknown tool-use behavior for wild birds, so far only documented in the wild in primates and elephants. We observed 2 Atlantic puffins at their breeding colonies, one in Wales and the other in Iceland (the latter captured on camera), spontaneously using a small wooden stick to scratch their bodies."

Perhaps puffins aren't as bird-brained as previously believed.

08/12/2019

Wild Latitudes lead guide Ivan Phillipsen visited the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry ( ) recently. The Exquisite Creatures exhibit is amazing!

22/11/2019

The primary leg of our Australia tour, led by Steve Robertson, is wrapping up in Sydney. It's been an incredible journey, full of birds, amazing landscapes, and camaraderie. Now, we continue the adventure on the extension trip to Tasmania!

17/11/2019

Here's some of the tour group with Trip Leader Steve in Queensland Australia, on the Daintree River. Next stop, the Great Barrier Reef!

17/11/2019

This is one of New Zealand's endemic parrots, the Kaka (Nestor meridionalis). This species is found across the country's 3 main islands, in suitable forest habitat.

Photo by Ivan Phillipsen a couple days ago.

15/11/2019

Our Australia tour is underway! Trip Leader Steve Robertson and his group saw this female Rock Wallaby with her joey.