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CANADA BIRDING TOURS

Make Saskatoon your first destination for a birdwatching tour to Canada.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada is located where two major North American bird flyways meet. During the breeding season in June and July, a Canada Birding Tour to Saskatoon could find about 150 bird species 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.

Because Saskatoon is located in the heartland of Canada, Canada birding tours here can see both eastern and western North American bird species on a single birding tour. Many of Canada's rarest birds are best seen in Saskatchewan, Canada. For example, we are the only province in Canada where both Eastern Whip-poor-will and Common Poorwill are regularly found. Saskatchewan's bird checklist includes over 380 species of birds of which over 300 species occur annually.
You may download a checklist of Saskatchewan birds HERE.

Wonder where to go birding near Saskatoon, Canada?

Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours offers private and group guided birding tours out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Check out our great selection of Canada Birding Tours.

Some of our special Canada birdwatching tours include viewing dancing grouse (spring), prairie birds (summer), Whooping Cranes (fall), Snowy Owls (winter).
For more information about our regular birding tours and workshops, CLICK HERE.
Custom tours and bird ID workshops are also available.

Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours is owned by our local Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation charity and all proceeds support their work in caring for injured and orphaned wild birds with a goal of returning them to the wild.

Because our birding tour leader has been an active birdwatcher for over 5 decades, you can be assured he will find you the best birds during our Canada Birding Tours.

Our birding tour gift certificates make excellent christmas gifts, birthday gifts or anniversary birding gifts for birders interested in birds and nature.

HOW TO GET TO SASKATOON

Air: Saskatoon International Airport (YXE) is served by Air Canada, Westjet, and their partners United and Delta.

Train: Saskatoon's Train Station is served by Via Rail's Canadian train serving Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Jasper and Vancouver.

Bus: Saskatoon - Edmonton and Saskatoon - Regina bus service

Car: Saskatoon is located on Canada's Yellowhead cross-country highway plus 6 other major highways connecting with all cities in Canada and USA. If you drive, you do not need to rent a car for our tours.

BIRDING TOUR INFORMATION REQUEST FORM

You may use the following form to request tour suggestions during your proposed travel dates to Saskatoon, Canada. Alternatively, you may email birdtours@sasktel.net to request this information.

Let us show you the best birds during our Canada Birding Tours.

List of Special Bird Species

Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Cackling Goose
Tundra Swan
Gadwall
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
Gray Partridge
Sharp-tailed Grouse - dancing in spring
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
White-faced Ibis
Bald Eagle
Swainson's Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Yellow Rail
Sandhill Crane
Whooping Crane
Piping Plover
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Long-billed Curlew
Upland Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
California Gull
Franklin's Gull
Forster's Tern
Snowy Owl - winter
Northern Hawk Owl - winter
Great Gray Owl - winter
Common Poorwill
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Red-naped Sapsucker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Black-billed Magpie
Rock Wren
Pacific Wren
Mountain Bluebird
Sprague's Pipit
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Spotted Towhee
Clay-colored Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Lark Sparrow
Baird's Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole
Common Redpoll - winter
Hoary Redpoll - winter

Please ask about other bird species of interest to you.

YOUR TOUR LEADER

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, Nature Saskatchewan and the University of Saskatchewan Extension Division. He 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”. He is currently 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 our birding tours so that all proceeds benefit the work of Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation.