Bow Valley Birding and Wildlife Tours

Bow Valley Birding and Wildlife Tours is a small Calgary-based outfit running personalised birding and wildlife day tours through southern Alberta and the Bow Valley corridor of the Canadian Rockies. The operating area takes in foothills, prairies, montane forest and alpine habitat within roughly ninety minutes of Calgary, which the company points to as a remarkably high-density birding region. The team highlights more than two hundred breeding species in their core area, plus over a hundred migrants, and pitches itineraries around both birds and broader wildlife — Prairie Rattlesnakes and Grizzly Bears get equal billing on the site. Photography by Daniel Arndt features prominently across the site. The scale of the operation is firmly local, tailoring half-day to multi-day private trips rather than running set-departure group tours.