• 2024 June 11-17, 2024 Price: $2890 per person sharing Single room supplement: $705 Guide: Steve Huggins Maximum of 7 participants

    TOUR FULL! Contact us for waitlist. There is space available on the extension.

    Cassia Crossbill Extension June 17-19, 2024 Price: $995 per person sharing Single room supplement: $175 Guide: Steve Huggins Maximum of 7 participants

    Custom tours anytime

  • Montana in Summer II - June 2021 (Click HERE for photo gallery)

    Montana in Summer - June 2021 (Click HERE for photo gallery)

    Montana in Summer - June 2019 (Click HERE for photo gallery)

  • Coming soon!

Montana in Summer: Where the mountains meet the plains + Cassia crossbill extension

With a combination of mountains, grasslands, and wetlands, Montana in summer offers a mouthwatering diversity of breeding birds. We will look for birds like Baird's Sparrow, Sprague's Pipit, Mountain Plover, Dusky Grouse, and Black Rosy-Finch. All this in a spectacular setting, with the endless grassy plains abutting the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Add in a visit to Yellowstone National Park with its abundant bison and other large mammals (maybe even wolf!) and you have the perfect summer birding trip to the American West.

The extension will find us driving to Southern Idaho to look for Cassia Crossbill, the most recently described bird species in North America. The mountains in this region also give us a good opportunity to search for other specialties like Flammulated Owl, Common Poorwill and Lewis’s Woodpecker.

Itineraries will be updated with plenty of time before the next departure. Our itineraries usually show minimal changes between years, but some substantive updates can occur as birding access and information evolves. For any specific questions regarding these trips, please contact us.

SCROLL THROUGH OUR MONTANA IN SUMMER PHOTO GALLERY BELOW

Red Hill Birding is taking on Texas for the rest of the month. Josh is running our Hill Country & Big Bend tour, which includes witnessing the incredible Mexican Free-tailed Bat emergence at the Frio Bat Cave! Steve is soaking spring migration a
On our just-completed Costa Rica tour, we spent an extraordinary hour surrounded by endemic birds in the jardín of Dantica Cloud Forest Lodge--Black-billed Nightingale Thrush, Ochraceous Wren, Ruddy Treerunner, Flame-throated Warbler, Yellow-w
Nathan led a fantastic tour through sunny Southern California last month. As the kids would say, they crushed it. 📸: Tour leader @nathan_goldbird. 1) Lawrence's Goldfinch 2) Island Fox 3) Burrowing Parakeet 4) Black-throated Sparrow 5) Nanday Parak
One of the avian highlights of this year's San Diego Bird Festival was Ridgway's Rail. Normally secretive and difficult to find, our sponsored field trips to the Tijuana Slough NWR were timed to match high tide, which can bring them out of dense cove