ALL BIRDING TOURS
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HALF-DAY PRIVATE BIRDING TOURS
FULL-DAY PRIVATE BIRDING TOURS
MULTI-DAY GROUP BIRDING TOURS
LOW MOBILITY BIRDING TOURS ♿
BLIND / LOW VISION BIRDING TOURS
BIRDING BY EAR ONLINE WORKSHOPS
WARBLER ID ONLINE WORKSHOPS
WHOOPING CRANE TOURS
SNOWY OWL TOURS
GREAT GRAY OWL PHOTOGRAPHY TOURS
DANCING GROUSE PHOTOGRAPHY TOURS
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SASKATOON CUSTOM BIRD TOURS
Where to go birding near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada?
Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours offers private and group guided birding tours and bird photography tours out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Our selection of Canada Birding Tours makes Saskatoon the best destination for birding tourists.
Your expert local bird guide has been leading bird watching and bird photography tours across Saskatchewan for over 40 years.
Some of our special tours include photographing and viewing Dancing Grouse (spring), Prairie birds, Shorebirds, Water Birds (summer), Whooping Cranes (fall), Snowy Owls and Great Gray Owls (winter).
Custom tours and bird ID workshops available.
Our birding tours and bird photography tours make excellent birthday gifts, Mother's Day gifts, Father's Day gifts, retirement gifts or anniversary birding gifts for birders interested in birds and nature.
Saskatoon is located where two major North American bird flyways meet. During the breeding season in June and July about 150 bird species occur within our nearby grassland, wetland and woodland habitats. This bird list is augmented during the migration months of May, August and September when boreal and arctic nesting warblers, flycatchers, vireos and shorebirds become plentiful.
2023 Tour Summary: Click here for brief descriptions of each of the 2023 birding and bird photography tours plus workshops offered by Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours.
Half-Day Tours: If you are only interested in half-day tours, click here.
Multiple Tours Discount
Can't decide which tour to take?
Check out the multiple tours discount from Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours described here.
All proceeds from Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours support the work of our local Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation charity.
Custom Tour: Click here for details of arranging a custom private birding tour.
Questions: Email birdtours@sasktel.net
Covid Safety Policy on Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours
- Your tour leader is fully vaccinated.
- Clients must normally drive themselves in their own personal or rented vehicle. The leader will usually drive in a separate vehicle. We will use cell phones to communicate between each other during the tour.
- Please wear a mask and maintain physical 2 meter distancing when walking outside or viewing birds through the spotting scope that I will set up.
- This policy may change when public health orders change or when Covid case numbers decrease.
- Please contact us before booking tour if you have any special requests with regard to this policy. In certain cases, if requested, leader may be willing to ride in client's vehicle or drive client's vehicle.
Gift Certificates Available Now
Any tour offered by Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours makes an excellent birthday gift, anniversary gift, graduation gift or special gift for a birder, birdwatcher or anyone interested in nature.
GIFT CERTIFICATES: Click here for information about purchasing a gift certificate for this tour or any of our other tours.
TOUR LIST - SASKATOON CUSTOM BIRD TOURS
Click the following Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours for details.
January - March Birdwatching Tours and Bird Photography Tours
- Beaver Creek Birding and Hiking Tour - 3 hours from $195
- Chickadee Feeding Tour (November, January, February)
- Forest Winter Birding Private Tour ♿
(Great Gray Owl, Northern Hawk Owl, Spruce Grouse, songbirds)
January - February - Northern Owl Adventure Series Dates TBA
- Pike Lake birding tour (November - September)
- Prince Albert National Park Birding Tour (all year)
- Ptarmigan Tour ♿
Special Group Tour March 7 - 8 - Saskatoon Winter Birdwatching Tour (November, January - March)
- Snowy Owl Tour ♿ (January - February)
- Weir Birding Tour ♿ (January - August)
April - May Birdwatching and Bird Photography Tours and Workshops
- Beaver Creek birding and hiking tour (all year)
- Birding by Ear online Workshop Series (May)
- Blackstrap Lake Birding and Bird Photography Tour
Special Group Tour: May 26 - Buffalo Pound Park Birding Tour
Special Group Tour: May 23 - Chief Whitecap Park Birding Tour (May - September)
- Custom Bird Photography Tour (May - September)
- Dancing Grouse Bird Photography Tours ♿ (mid - April - mid May)
- Donna Birkmaier Park Tour ♿ (April - September)
- Eagle Creek and Hills Birding Tour (May - July)
- Ferry Birding Tour (May - August)
- Goose Lake Birding and Bird Photography Tours ♿ (April - September)
- Grasslands National Park Tour
Special Group Tour: May 20 - 22 - Night Sounds Nature Tour (April)
Special Group Tours: April 1 & 10 - Pike Lake Birding Tour (January - August)
- Prairie Grasslands Birding Tour - 8 hours
- Prairie Lakes Birding Tour ♿
Special Group Tour May 6 - Prince Albert National Park Birding Tour
Special Group Tour April 7 - 8 - Quill Lakes Birding Tour ♿
Special Group Tour May 13 - Redberry Lake Bird Sanctuary Tour (May - September)
- Saskatoon birdwatching tour ♿ (all year)
- Signs of Spring Birding Tour ♿ (April - June)
Special Group Tour: May 14 - Van Scoy Lakes Birding Tour ♿ (May - August)
- Weir Birding Tour ♿ (November - August)
- Wild Raptor Tour
Special Group Tour: April 9
June - August Birdwatching Tours and Bird Photography Tours and Workshops
- Saskatchewan Birding Hotspots Tour Series
- Beaver Creek Birding and Hiking Tour
- Blackstrap Lake Birding and Bird Photography Tour
- Buffalo Pound Park Birding Tour
Special Group Tour: July 10 - Camp Wolf Willow birding tour (July – September)
- Carrot River Birding Tour
Special Group Tour: July 1 - 3 - Chaplin Shorebirds Tour ♿- 12 hours
Special Group Tour July 23 - Chappell Marsh Birding and Hiking Tour - 2 hours
- Chief Whitecap Birding and Hiking Tour - 3 hours
- Cypress Hills - Grasslands Birding Tour
Special Group Tour: June 10-17 - Custom Bird Photography Tour - 3 hours
- Donna Birkmaier Park Tour ♿ 3 hours
- Duck Lake and Nisbet Forest Birding Tour -♿ 6 hours (June - July)
- Duck Mountain Birding Tour - eastern birds
Special Group Tour: June 5 - 8 - Eagle Creek and Hills Birding Tour - 8 hours (June - July)
- Ferry Birding Tour - 4 hours
Special Group Tour: August 16 - Goose Lake Birding and Bird Photography Tours ♿ - 4 - 6 hours
- Grasslands National Park Tour
- Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary Tour ♿- 8 hours
Special Group Tour July 16 - Pelican Photography and Viewing tour (August - September)
- Pike Lake Birding Tour - 4 hours (January - August)
- Porter Lake Birding Tour -♿ 3 hours
- Prairie Grasslands Birding Tour - 8 hours
- Prairie Lakes Birding Tour♿ - 4 hours
- Prince Albert National Park Birding Tour
Special Group Tour June 24 - 26 - Quill Lakes Birding Tour ♿- 8 hours
- Redberry Lake Bird Sanctuary Tour - 8 hours
Special Group Tour July 30 - Saskatoon Birdwatching Tour ♿
- Saskatoon Evening Bird Walks ♿- 1.5 hours
- Saskatoon Riverbank Bird Walks ♿ - 2 hours
- Saskatoon Shorebirds Tour ♿(July - August)
- SE Saskatchewan Birding Tour (June - July)
Special Group Tour June 17 - 20 - Souris River Birding Tour
Special Group Tour July 7 - 9 - Sunday Morning Guided Bird Walk ♿
- Van Scoy Lakes Birding Tour ♿ (May - August)
- Warbler Walking Tour - 3 hours
- Weir Birding Tour ♿ - (November - August)
- Songbird Stroll
September - October Birdwatching Tours
- Blackstrap Lake Birding and Bird Photography Tour (early September)
- Buffalo Pound Park Birding Tour (early September)
- Chief Whitecap Park Birding Tour (early September)
- Porter Lake Birding Tour ♿ (April - September)
- Prairie Lakes Birding Tour ♿- 4 hours
- Prince Albert National Park Birding Tour
- Redberry Lake Bird Sanctuary Tour (May - September)
- Warbler Walking Tour
- Whooping Crane and Sandhill Crane Birding Tours ♿- 8 hours
Budget Group Tour: October 1, 2023
November - December Birdwatching and Bird Photography Tours
- Bald Eagle Tour ♿ (November)
- Beaver Creek birding and hiking tour (all year)
- Chickadee Feeding Tour (November - March)
- Saskatoon Winter Birdwatching Tour (November, January - March)
- Snowy Owl Tour ♿ (November- February)
- Weir Birding Tour ♿ (November - August)
Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours offers many Half-day, Full-day and Multi-day Guided Birding Tours throughout the year starting in Saskatoon.
TESTIMONIALS:
CLICK to listen to Calgary Naturalist Brian Keating on CBC Calgary Radio giving an on-air review of a whooping crane tour he booked with us.
Canadian Geographic Article. Click Here.
Global TV News Report: Click Here.
"I drove to Saskatoon and met Stan Shadick who arranged for me to observe lekking Sharp-tailed Grouse. Stan set up a blind for me, enabling me to take photos in the early morning hours (04:10 to 08:00, Wednesday, May 5). It was a birding thrill for the year. " (L. C.)
"That was such a great trip! Thanks so much for the use of the blind and sharing your general knowledge and expertise. "(J. L.)
"We really appreciated your tour last Wednesday; [Our young grandson] loved it!! He also told us he learned a lot. I believe you have inspired him to continue his passion of birding. Thanks again for the wonderful guiding!" (D.D. )
"Thanks for your excellent tour. Very full informative days!" (M.D.)
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TOUR GUIDE

STAN SHADICK: Guide for Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours
TOUR GUIDE: Your guide has many years of experience finding and observing birds throughout Saskatchewan. For over 30 years, Stan Shadick has been a birding guide for nature tours around Saskatchewan and other parts of the country that have been organized by Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation, Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours, Nature Saskatchewan and the University of Saskatchewan Extension Division.
Stan is past president of Nature Saskatchewan as well as past president and current field trip chairman for the Saskatoon Nature Society. He is a co-editor of the reference publication “Birds of the Saskatoon Area” and contributed significantly to the recently published “Birds of Saskatchewan”.
Stan has volunteered as a regional coordinator for the Saskatchewan Breeding Bird Atlas project and helps with their bird identification workshops. He regularly contributes sightings to e-bird and currently holds the e-bird record for the most bird species seen in Saskatchewan.
Stan volunteers his time leading Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours so that all proceeds benefit the work of Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation.
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