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| Client comment "Group experience was excellent! Great mesh of personalities. Everyone was keen to see birds. Would I travel with John Coons again? Yes! John was super. I appreciated his humor, birding knowledge, and patience." - M.G., AUSTRALIA: KAKADU, KUNUNURRA & CAPE YORK Why Travel with Us?  The Grand Canyon, from our Northern Arizona's Canyons & Condor tour, photographed by guide John Coons |
| JOHN COONS: Field Guides Leader | |
John Coons combines birding excellence with a natural ability as a tour guide. He has been leading tours since 1985. Since then his great group skills, attention to detail, easy laugh, and unfailing sense to spot (and remember!) what's fascinating in things large and small have brought delight to innumerable Field Guides participants on tours from the High Arctic to the tip of South America and throughout Australasia. When not on tour, John enjoys exploring and birding the remote mountains, canyons, and mesas of his home in northern Arizona. His ambition of developing a completely sustainable yard of native wildflowers, grasses, trees, and shrubs is an unending goal that consumes more time than expected each spring and summer. |
John's Upcoming Tours |
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| NORTHERN ARIZONA'S CANYONS & CONDOR Jun 1-6, 2013 with John Coons This new tour features mountain and high-desert birds of the western US amidst stunning scenery with California Condors at the Grand Canyon, all guided by our own Flagstaff-based resident expert, John Coons. | |
| MONTANA: YELLOWSTONE TO GLACIER Jun 13-23, 2013 with Terry McEneaney & John Coons Great western birding and wildlife on this tour amidst the scenery of Big Sky country. | |
| SPITSBERGEN & SVALBARD ARCHIPELAGO: A CRUISE TO THE NORWEGIAN ARCTIC Jul 10-22, 2013 with John Coons A high-arctic adventure aboard a comfortable vessel for fantastic seabirds, marine mammals including Walrus and Polar Bear, and fabulous scenery. | |
| ARIZONA'S SECOND SPRING Jul 27 - Aug 5, 2013 with John Coons An ideal time for visiting one of the best birding regions in North America: great for local specialties and Mexican vagrants. | |
| AUSTRALIA Oct 15-30, 2013 (II) with John Coons & Jesse Fagan In two parts for those with limited time. Part I covers the environs of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, southwest Australia, and Alice Springs. Part II begins in Darwin and continues to Queensland (Cairns, Atherton Tableland, Outback Queensland, and O'Reilly's Guest House). Both parts combine for a complete birding tour of Australia. (Tasmania Extension to Nov 4, 2013) May be combined with New Zealand | |
| HOLIDAY IN HONDURAS: THE LODGE AT PICO BONITO Dec 29, 2013 - Jan 3, 2014 with John Coons & local guide A holiday birding tour over New Year's based in a lovely and bird-rich setting at The Lodge at Pico Bonito. | |
| PANAMA'S CANOPY TOWER Jan 19-25, 2014 with John Coons & Lena Senko A towering introduction to Neotropical birds based entirely in a unique lodge; quick access to famous Pipeline Road. May be combined with Panama's Canopy Camp | |
| PANAMA'S CANOPY CAMP: LOWLAND DARIEN Jan 24-31, 2014 with John Coons & local guide A new birding tour to a remote part of Panama with many specialties seen nowhere else in Central America. May be combined with Panama's Canopy Tower | |
| PANAMA'S CANOPY TOWER Feb 22-28, 2014 with John Coons & local guide A towering introduction to Neotropical birds based entirely in a unique lodge; quick access to famous Pipeline Road. (Canopy Lodge Extension from Feb 18, 2014) | |
| TEXAS COAST MIGRATION SPECTACLE Apr 12-18, 2014 with John Coons The migration mecca of High Island plus specialties of the Big Thicket and myriad waterbirds and shorebirds. May be combined with Texas's Big Bend & Hill Country | |
| TEXAS COAST MIGRATION SPECTACLE Apr 19-25, 2014 with John Coons The migration mecca of High Island plus specialties of the Big Thicket and myriad waterbirds and shorebirds. | |
| ARIZONA: BIRDING THE BORDER May 9-18, 2014 with John Coons One of the most exciting destinations in North America with a backdrop of spectacular mountain scenery. | |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA'S CANYONS & CONDOR May 31 - Jun 5, 2014 with John Coons This new tour features mountain and high-desert birds of the western US amidst stunning scenery with California Condors at the Grand Canyon, all guided by our own Flagstaff-based resident expert, John Coons. | |
| MONTANA: YELLOWSTONE TO GLACIER Jun 7-17, 2014 with Terry McEneaney & John Coons Great western birding and wildlife on this tour amidst the scenery of Big Sky country. | |
| SPITSBERGEN & SVALBARD ARCHIPELAGO: A CRUISE TO THE NORWEGIAN ARCTIC Jun 29 - Jul 11, 2014 with John Coons A high-arctic adventure aboard a comfortable vessel for fantastic seabirds, marine mammals including Walrus and Polar Bear, and fabulous scenery. | |
| ARIZONA'S SECOND SPRING Jul 26 - Aug 4, 2014 with John Coons An ideal time for visiting one of the best birding regions in North America: great for local specialties and Mexican vagrants. | |
| AUSTRALIA Oct 21 - Nov 5, 2014 (II) with John Coons & Eric Hynes In two parts for those with limited time. Part I covers the environs of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, southwest Australia, and Alice Springs. Part II begins in Darwin and continues to Queensland (Cairns, Atherton Tableland, Outback Queensland, and O'Reilly's Guest House). Both parts combine for a complete birding tour of Australia. (Tasmania Extension to Nov 10, 2014) May be combined with New Zealand | |
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