At Wildland Tours we select our hotels with your interests in mind. Most places are well located near coastal or forest trails where guests can enjoy an early morning listening for bird song or a late evening enjoying a sunset.
Wildland Tours photographer Ken Knowles is one of Newfoundland and Labrador’s leading bird guides. Audubon groups and specialty birding companies often contact us about having Ken or company president Dave Snow lead a special interest tour group.
All of our holidays feature remarkable bird watching BUT they are not birding vacations. Some of our leaders are accomplished birders, and our itineraries do feature some excellent birding areas. Every year birders join us and have enjoyable vacations but we always tell them that we provide tours designed for their non-birding travel companions… and for birders too.
Cape St. Mary’s has been described as one of the planet’s most spectacular and accessible seabird colonies. In addition to gannets and kittiwakes with their chicks, our naturalists will show you the world’s most southerly breeding thick-billed murres. (Europeans call these Brunnich’s guillemots.) The majesty of this coastal headland ensures our stop at Cape St. Mary’s becomes a life-long memory for anyone with a love of nature.
Murres are the northern hemisphere’s answer to the penguins. They dive to great depths in search of fish and are sighted on our vacations from May to midAugust. Newfoundland and Labrador is home to the world’s largest colony of common murres.
Western Newfoundland and southern Labrador is home to an impressive variety of bird life. While our Viking Trail Experience is not a “birding vacation”, we do take the time to enjoy the birds and other wildlife.
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