Audubon Everglades is excited to announce the return of our very popular program, Pelagic Tour! Get your sea legs on and come join us!

A pelagic birding trip is done by traveling by boat offshore to view seabirds that rarely come ashore except to breed. Seabird (pelagic) species include tropical terns, shearwaters, jaegers, gannets and others. Come take a journey with Pelagic birding experts, Michael Brothers, Mitchell Harris, Larry Manfredi, & Dan Scolaro. 

THE DETAILS

Space is limited — 40 person maximum. People who are current Audubon Everglades and NAS members will have priority to register. If spaces are not filled, it will be open to the public to register. Registration link and details will be sent to the Member’s email. Keep an eye out, spaces fill up fast!

Cost: $105 per person. This includes the boat trip, tip for boat crew, pelagic leaders, snacks, water and fun. For people unfamiliar with the cost of other pelagic trips, this is a phenomenal value!

This is a 5 hour Pelagic Trip with Guides Michael Brothers, Mitchell Harris, Larry Manfredi and Dan Scolaro on board.

We are so excited to have all these wonderful Pelagic bird guides in one place and have them share their knowledge and expertise to our Audubon Everglades audience.

Meet our Pelagic tour leaders:

Michael Brothers –  Retired as Director of the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet, Michael has been leading pelagic birding expeditions off Florida and Georgia for nearly 20 years and natural history tours throughout Florida, the Galapagos Islands, Kenya, and the Amazon. He is a member of the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee and is the Florida regional editor of the journal North American Birds. 

Mitchell Harris (Florida Ornithological Society) – Mitchell has been interested in Natural History and all things out-of-doors from his earliest memories as a small child growing up in Vero Beach Fl. He took up birding fifteen years ago, and is now an avid birder that is most interested in pelagic type birds but enjoys anything that flies. His spark bird might have been a white morph Gyrfalcon that he saw many years ago, just north of the Brooks Range on the North Slope of Alaska.

Larry Manfredi – Many birders might remember his name for the Western Spindalis that showed up in his yard between January 3rd and February 26, 1992. More than 400 people came to see that amazing vagrant. Realizing the number of people that share his interest, He decided to start guiding professionally. He contributed to the book titled “A Birder’s Guide To Florida” by Bill Pranty. He wrote the chapter on Homestead and helped with the sections on Miami, the Florida Keys, and Everglades National Park. He co-authored “A Birder’s Guide To Metropolitan Areas of North America” by Paul Lehman and sold by American Birding Association.