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Southeast Arizona (Tucson-based)

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The general reservation calendar specifically covers guides within Southeastern Arizona (Tucson area and south and east from there). For the greater Phoenix/Maricopa area please see Gordon Karre’s calendar directly. For Southeastern, Central, and Northern Arizona, see Felipe Guerrero’s calendar directly.

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Scott Wilbor

Scott brings a love of adventure and passion in birding and seeking out other wildlife throughout Southeast Arizona and sometimes beyond, developed from his many years pursuing avian studies and conservation work in this fantastic region.  His venture, Nature InSight LLC, strives to provide bird guiding for entry to intermediate-level experience, all ages, and all capabilities, while providing insightful, fun, and adventure-filled birding & wildlife explorations.  This includes sharing his knowledge of ecology, behavior, habitat, and ecosystems.  If you are looking for a “target” birding/photography tour -with a list of “needed” birds- Nature InSight may not be the best guide service for you (although your efforts and desires are appreciated and applauded).  If you want to seek out and learn new birds, explore exciting habitats, and immerse yourself in the beautiful and diverse nature of Southeast Arizona, Scott is there for you!  Now a “living with cancer survivor,” Scott understands what makes for life’s most meaningful moments and embraces sharing joyful adventures with others.

Scott has a 20+ year history of working in the Southwest as a conservation biologist, researcher, practitioner, coordinator, and director, as well as 14 years of experience as a wildlife and fisheries biologist in Alaska.  His avian studies and conservation work have covered all of Arizona, especially Southeast Arizona, and his Alaska wildlife studies spanned from Southeast Alaska to the Arctic.

Scott initiated and coordinated Audubon’s Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program in Arizona for 11 years with the Tucson Audubon Society.  He started the Avian Science Initiative within the program, to use professional and citizen-science volunteers to provide population data to identify and promote conservation of the most essential habitat for birds in Arizona, our Arizona IBAs (visit:  aziba.org)!  Scott studied large landscape/ecosystem conservation at the University of Arizona (M.S. 2014).  He then directed conservation and science programs for S. Arizona NGOs, contracted for the National Geographic Society, National Geographic Expeditions, and locally, and started his own bird/nature guiding business in 2020.

Scott provides his guiding services within Southeast Arizona from a Tucson base.  He offers both half-day and full-day (and night) guided adventures.  Greater Tucson, Santa Ritas/Green Valley, Tubac/Tumacacori, Mt. Lemmon/Summerhaven, Cascabel, San Manuel, Oracle, Mammoth, Aravaipa, Aravaca, Sonoita, and Patagonia areas and their surrounds, are his home guiding range-with some special exceptions.  Scott focuses his guiding on outstanding habitats for birds and other wildlife, including lesser-known wild places.  These habitats include:  riparian/riverine, canyons, wetlands, Sonoran Desert, mesquite bosque, mixed oak woodlands, montane forests, and grasslands.  Scott knows the birds and their habitats in our wild southeast corner of Arizona, where to find them—and the value of sharing new joyful birding moments together!