Adak in Aleutian Islands

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With great pleasure and anticipation, NatureAlaska Tours announces joining with Victor Emanuel of VENT for birding Adak in the Aleutian Islands in 2006. Following my 2003 pioneer explorations and birding at Adak, this new partnership brings the strengths of Alaska's two premier birding companies to birders from across the globe.

My 39 years of Alaskan logistics, operations and pioneering nature tours in Alaska, with VENT's decades of Alaskan birding and extraordinary leaders, Kevin Zimmer and Marshall Iliff, are a combination impossible to match in Alaska birding tours.

Adak is a large island in the Andreanof group of the central Aleutian chain, with a resident human population of less than 300. Over the years, it has accumulated a long list of Asiatic vagrants, in spite of the fact that it has received relatively little coverage from birders. Prior to 2004, access to the island was highly restricted, due to the presence of an active U.S. Naval base.

Birders could only look at Adak on the map and dream about what could have been. But, in April of 2003, the government shut down the Adak base, and relinquished control of the island and its facilities to the Aleut Enterprise Corporation. With that move, Adak became open for tourism. Adak offers the rare opportunity to search for Asiatic vagrants and Bering Sea specialties in relative ease and comfort.

Download your complete itinerary for this amazing adventure and read more about Adak in Dan's Blog.

For more information and to reserve your tour: Call Dan L. Wetzel at (907) 488- 3746 or email .