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

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.