Polar Bears of Churchill: Nov 02—08, 2009

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Price: $3,295
Price does not include internal air ticket.
Departs: Winnipeg
Tour Limit: 18
Operations Manager: Edna Murray
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Steve Hilty

Steve Hilty is the senior author of A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, and the recently published Birds of Venezuela, both by Pr...

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Polar Bears— Photo: Doug Hanna

Huge sparring males, mothers with tiny twin cubs, giant bears sleeping in the snow: the greatest seasonal concentration of polar bears in the world along southwest Hudson Bay makes for one of the most memorable wildlife viewing experiences anywhere.

With the coming of winter, Churchill changes character. The tundra is snow-covered and nearly all the shorebirds have migrated south. This is the time of year for polar bears. For several weeks each fall there are more polar bears in the Churchill area than in any other place in the world. This tour will spend four days in Churchill, three aboard Tundra Buggies in the Hudson Bay coastline area, where we will see numbers of these magnificent creatures including mothers with cubs, enormous males (often some play-fighting), and enjoy very close views from the Tundra Buggy.

The number of bird species is small, but the species that remain are spectacular and often include such specialties as Gyrfalcon, Snowy Owl, and Willow Ptarmigan, as well as Snow Buntings, Common Eiders, and Purple Sandpipers.