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Ventures Birding Tours Ventures Birding Tours is based in Asheville, North Carolina. Tours range from day trips in the Blue

It's Sparrow Saturday! Similar to Western North Carolina's Dark-eyed Junco, is the Yellow-eyed Junco of the South West. ...
21/12/2024

It's Sparrow Saturday! Similar to Western North Carolina's Dark-eyed Junco, is the Yellow-eyed Junco of the South West. "In Veracruz, Mexico, native people in the 1860s called the Yellow-eyed Junco the "caster of fire" or the "lightning bird." They believed that their eyes gathered sunlight during the day and released it at night." (AllAboutBirds).

(photo by Vicky Burke - Arizona)

Looking for that last minute Christmas /Holiday Gift? How about a day trip for the birder in your family! Lots are comi...
20/12/2024

Looking for that last minute Christmas /Holiday Gift? How about a day trip for the birder in your family! Lots are coming up in January 2025. Here's how to find them:

https://www.birdventures.com/day-trips.html

Ventures tour to Bocas Del Toro, Panama has so far been a great success! Here is a Golden-winged Warbler, Pale-billed Wo...
14/12/2024

Ventures tour to Bocas Del Toro, Panama has so far been a great success! Here is a Golden-winged Warbler, Pale-billed Woodpecker and a Fruit Crow. Photos by Larry Pellegrini.

Venture's Panama tour lands on Isla Bastimentos. Collared Plover, Common, Royal and Sandwich Terns, Lesser Scaup, Blue-w...
12/12/2024

Venture's Panama tour lands on Isla Bastimentos. Collared Plover, Common, Royal and Sandwich Terns, Lesser Scaup, Blue-winged Teals. More exploring underway!

There are lots of great day trips coming up for the start of 2025! Whether you are looking to vamp up a new year list, l...
11/12/2024

There are lots of great day trips coming up for the start of 2025! Whether you are looking to vamp up a new year list, looking for a lifer, or simply enjoying the beauty of birds, there's something for everyone! Check it out here:

https://www.birdventures.com/day-trips.html

(Downy Woodpecker, Field Sparrow, Gadwall by VB)

Venture's tour to Bocas Del Toro, Panama is doing great! Scenery, Birds, Frogs and more! Red-billed Tropicbirds, Brown ...
10/12/2024

Venture's tour to Bocas Del Toro, Panama is doing great! Scenery, Birds, Frogs and more! Red-billed Tropicbirds, Brown Bo***es, Magnificent Frigatebirds, Strawberry Poison Dart Frogs - Wow!

It's Sparrow Saturday! Here's a Black-throated Sparrow from Arizona. They live in semiopen areas with evenly spaced shru...
07/12/2024

It's Sparrow Saturday! Here's a Black-throated Sparrow from Arizona. They live in semiopen areas with evenly spaced shrubs and trees that are 3 - 10 feet tall and also occur as high as 7,000 feet elevation in pinyon-juniper forests. (All About Birds).



(Photo by Vicky Burke)

It's Flying Friday and Venture's very own leader, Simon, has done just that, all the way to Panama! He's currently enjoy...
06/12/2024

It's Flying Friday and Venture's very own leader, Simon, has done just that, all the way to Panama! He's currently enjoying Pipeline Road in Colon, Panama prior to leading his tour in Bocas Del Toro. How about a Spotted Antbird?! Here's how to fly to many great birding locations with us!

https://www.birdventures.com/ventures-tours.html



Photo by Vicky Burke from Pipeline Road, Panama 2023

It's Woodpecker Wednesday! How about a beautiful female Pileated Woodpecker to start the day? This bird is commonly seen...
04/12/2024

It's Woodpecker Wednesday! How about a beautiful female Pileated Woodpecker to start the day? This bird is commonly seen in Jackson Park along with 5 other Woodpecker species during the Winter months. Come join "Mondays with Mike" as Venture's reinstates local birding day trips! Here's how:

https://www.birdventures.com/Tours/Day/Mondays-with-Mike-MR-January-2025.html

Photo by Vicky Burke

It's Sparrow Saturday! Here is a photo of a Botteri's Sparrow, taken in Southern Arizona. This bird is a secretive sparr...
24/11/2024

It's Sparrow Saturday! Here is a photo of a Botteri's Sparrow, taken in Southern Arizona. This bird is a secretive sparrow of the desert grasslands and coastal prairie, often making it's presence known by it's bouncing-ball song.

Photo by Vicky Burke

VENTURES NEWSLETTER PART TWO:Back to our winter calendar, owls feature larger than life on our Minnesota tour and you ca...
22/11/2024

VENTURES NEWSLETTER PART TWO:
Back to our winter calendar, owls feature larger than life on our Minnesota tour and you can read more about it here and below.

A trip to northern Minnesota in the dead of winter is the best time of year to see the highly-sought after northern owls (Great Gray, Snowy, Northern Hawk, and sometimes Boreal and Northern Saw-whet). The list of winter finches adds additional highlights with Common & Hoary Redpolls, Pine & Evening Grosbeaks, and Red Crossbill all possible. Winter provides a much better chance of seeing things like Spruce Grouse, in addition to the expected gamut of Canada Jay, Boreal Chickadee, Black-backed Woodpecker, Northern Shrike, Bohemian Waxwing and more. Join Michael Werndly on this annual winter owl experience.

Join Ventures guide Mike Werndly to experience some great winter birding.

Our Day Trips will start again in January 2025 and are already being posted on our website. We will be offering about 4-5 per month and yes, it will be good to get out birding in our local areas once again. All of our International and longer within country trips are still running. Please feel free to email us at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

Thanks and we hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Simon Thompson

Photos:
Northern Minnesota in the winter! Bring your cold-weather gear (Photo by Vicky Burke)

Mike Werndly (left photo) is leading this year's Minnesota tour- here he is getting familiar with a Manx Shearwater chick in Scotland.

VENTURES NEWSLETTER PART ONE:Last month we outlined the wonderful work done by Ventures guide, Clifton Avery, as he orga...
22/11/2024

VENTURES NEWSLETTER PART ONE:
Last month we outlined the wonderful work done by Ventures guide, Clifton Avery, as he organized supplies and aid coming into ravaged areas of Western North Carolina. This month, another Ventures guide, Vicky Burke, was in Massachusetts this fall sorting out her late mother's estate, but she still managed to do some birding and spent time observing some Saw-whet Owl banding with the Berkshire Bird Observatory.

Seeing a Northern Saw-whet Owl is always a challenge as they are small and inconspicuous. It's very hard to find them in the breeding season and the best bet is to find a bird on its winter roost. Another great opportunity to observe them close-up is to visit a banding station during their southbound migration during the fall and this is what Vicky just did.

The Berkshire Bird Observatory has been monitoring and banding Saw-whets for 3 years during October and November with the best conditions being clear and cold with no wind. During perfect weather they may catch up to 20 per night, but the night that Vicky attended, it was just the solo first-year female bird that was banded. Once captured, the owls are banded, the data collected on age, s*x, body condition and molt before they are released them back into the night sky.

According to the Berkshire Bird Observatory, "Saw-whet Owls are pure magic: they’re cute and fierce, fluffy and profound. They even glow in the dark (fluoresce under UV). Bringing people out for owl banding is one of our favorite things to do—these little owls have a big impact on people who get to see them." You can read more about their work at:

https://www.berkshirebirds.org/research/saw-whet-owl-monitoring-cms

Photos: Ben Nickley, Executive Director of the Berkshire Bird Observatory in Great Barrington, MA
Northen Saw-whet Owl by Simon Thompson

It's Flying Friday again! Here's a lovely bird flying over the Antarctic Ocean from our Venture to Antarctica over the H...
22/11/2024

It's Flying Friday again! Here's a lovely bird flying over the Antarctic Ocean from our Venture to Antarctica over the Holidays of 2023/2024. This is a Southern Fulmar - we saw lots of these on our tour. Here's how to check out more Venture Birding Tours:

https://www.birdventures.com/ventures-tours.html

(photo by Vicky Burke


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It's Tropical Tuesday! Here's a new take on a Black-throated Blue Warbler, which many of us are used to seeing in Wester...
19/11/2024

It's Tropical Tuesday! Here's a new take on a Black-throated Blue Warbler, which many of us are used to seeing in Western North Carolina during the breeding season. This bird is a neo-tropical migrant which migrates at night to the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas, and occasionally the Caribbean coast of Mexico and Central America. This photo from Ventures, was actually taken on its wintering ground - Cuba!
Here's how to join us on our next Venture to Cuba...

https://www.birdventures.com/Tours/International/Cuban-Endemics-ST-Feb-6-20-2025.html

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This Leatherback Turtle, seen on Ventures tour to Trinadad and Tobago, is laying her eggs on the beach. Video by Simon Thompson

Hummers on Ecuadors west slope- we normally see over 60 species every year so join us in March for our hummer extravaganza tour- all details on birdventures.com #venturesbirdingtours #hummingbirds #ecuadorbirds #birdingecuador #tropicalbirds #tropicalbirding #birdingtours

King Penguins on the Falklands. No music as the sounds from the colony is so cool. The colony is growing in numbers every year and apparently the birds get better breeding results in larger groups. #penguins #falklandislands #venturesbirdingtours #antarctica #birdsoffalklandislands #birdsofantarctica

Another clip from the King Penguin colony on the Falklands. Soooo cute- thanks to Sheri and Will for this short vid.

King Penguins- wow. A great day on the Falkland Islands during our Antarctica cruise.

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