The diversity of bird species and quality of habitat offers world-class birding and makes Tofino and Ucluelet an excellent bird watching holiday destination.
The open Pacific Ocean to the west offers Pelagic birding, a huge eel-grass mudflat to the east is a stopover for thousands of shorebirds in spring migration. Tofino is situated on the Pacific Flyway and in the spring tens of thousands of geese and ducks pass through. Nearby Pacific Rim National Parks long beach area is 20km stretch of sandy beach and is visited by over fifty species of shorebirds.
Birding tours can be designed to get you the species you want to see, taking you to the best spots at the best times for the best birding in our area. You will learn how to identify birds by field marks and bird songs. Binoculars and field guides available from your guide.
Early bird tour
Early morning walk in Pacific Rim National Park, cover a variety of habitats; see shorebirds, seabirds, and forest birds.
Shorebird Walk
Take advantage of the great diversity and numbers of shorebirds on Long Beach, Pac Rim Park. From huge intertidal mudflats to long sand beaches to surf pounded rocky islands, you’ll see lots of good shorebirds on this trip.
Seabird voyage
A two hour trip to Cleland Island ecological reserve located in the outer waters of Clayoquot Sound. Your guide will take you to the best spots for seabirds, you may see the Spectacular Tufted Puffin, Marbled Murrelets and too much more to list.
Pelagic Birding
A full day of birdwatching offshore, you never know what you will see next while birding as far west as possible in Canada on the open Pacific Ocean.
Mountain Birding
A full day tour at high elevation in the old growth Douglas Fir forest gives you many bird species not breeding on the outer coast. This is birding in the mountain home of the cougar and the Vancouver Island elk, a birding tour in nature unchanged.
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