Welcome to the online home of Borealis Birding!

I am pleased to assist you with connecting to birds and wildlife in my big backyard: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Through both on-demand and pre-scheduled tour offerings, Borealis Birding will help you locate and observe the species you’ve long-desired to see like Spruce Grouse, Boreal Chickadee and Kirtland’s Warbler! Tours are designed to fit your needs: growing a life list, capturing stunning photographs, or learning more about the ecology of Michigan’s North Woods. In addition to guided tours of the Upper Peninsula, I range far afield, leading trips to the Sax Zim Bog, south Texas, southeast Arizona, offshore pelagic birding and more!

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Winter in the North Woods

HOME SWEET HOME! I love my vagabond touring/field worker lifestyle, but I relish coming home to my quaint hamlet along the shores of Lake Superior. Even in the depths of winter, it is a place of peace, restoration and renewal. And as certainly not by chance, the birding is dang good in these parts! It’s…

Upcoming Tours

Borealis Birding tours are currently available as pre-scheduled group tours and also by request. I also have several tours through WINGS BIRDING TOURS and EAGLE-EYE TOURS that I would love to have you along on! Tour Schedule 2022-2023 Arizona in Winter — EAGLE EYE TOURS January 23-31, 2022 January 31- February 8, 2022 Winter…

About

Skye Christopher G. Haas Skye is an avid birder, naturalist, tour guide and field biologist living in Marquette, along the shores of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Skye specialized foremost as a migration counter, conducting raptor, songbird and waterbird counts. His most recent field biology work has been with NOAA conducting seabird…