About your trip

SW Saskatchewan Birding Grand Tour: July 9 - 16, 2026

Join a small group birding tour to Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada during the peak of the bird nesting season. Saskatchewan is located near the centre of North America where several bird migration flyways meet. Consequently, this bird-rich province of Canada is home to birds from both eastern and western North America. .

This Southwest Saskatchewan Birding Grand Tour will visit the best birding hotspots in southern Saskatchewan including:

Chaplin, Reed & Francis Lakes (piping plover, black-necked stilt, white-faced Ibis)
Buffalo Pound Lake (grebes, geese, ducks, flycatchers, marsh birds)
Cypress Hills (red-naped sapsucker, macgillivray's warbler, violet-green swallow)
Old Man on his Back NCC preserve (bison, pronghorns, longspurs)
Jones's Peak (rock wren, mountain bluebird, prairie falcon)
Grasslands National Park (burrowing owl, long-billed curlew, prairie dogs, bison)

Add-Ons

The following add-on tours are also available.

July 6 - 8 Prince Albert National Park 2-day tour plus Chief Whitecap Park Bird Walk and Blackstrap Lake Birding Tour
July 17 - 18 Radisson Lake IBA & Redberry Lakes Bird Sanctuary Tour plus Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary Tour

See trip itinerary on tour webpage at

https://livingskywildliferehabilitation.org/birding-tours/sw-sask/

Transportation

Participants must drive their own personal or rented vehicle on this guided tour. If requested, tour leader may be willing to drive your vehicle during tour.

Accommodation

Following your registration, you will receive an email with the information needed to book your accommodation during this tour.

QUESTIONS

Please email any questions to

birdtours@sasktel.net

What's included

Guiding

Use of spotting scope

What's not included

Transportation

Accommodation

Food and meals

Park Entrance Fees

Partial Tax Receipt

Saskatchewan Bird Tour

Canada - Southwest Saskatchewan Birding Grand Tour: July 9 - 16

Day 1: Buffalo P:ound Lake

Day 2 Chaplin, Reed and Francis Lakes

Day 3 & 4: Cypress Hills

Day 5: Old Man on His Back Nature Conservancy of Canada preserve, Jones's Peak

Day 6: Pine Cree Coulee & Grasslands Park

Day 7: Grasslands National Park

Day 8: Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park

More details at

https://livingskywildliferehabilitation.org/birding-tours/sw-sask/

itinerary may be adjusted for weather reasons.

About your organizer

Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours

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Saskatoon Custom Bird Tours offers private and public guided birdwatching tours and bird photography tours out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Our selection of Canada Birding Tours makes Saskatoon the best destination for birding tourists. See both eastern and western birds. Some of our special tours include photographing; Dancing Grouse (spring), Prairie, Forest and Wetland birds (summer), Whooping Cranes and Sandhill Cranes (fall), Snowy Owls and Great Gray Owls (winter). Custom tours and bird ID workshops available.

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