ABOUT US

Sprague’s Pipit © Seth Owens

Professional Birding Guides

North Dakota Birding Guides is dedicated to helping you follow your passions—whether it’s discovering amazing birds, capturing that perfect photo, exploring beautiful places, or simply embracing your love of nature. Our expert guides specialize in creating personalized birding experiences tailored to your specific interests and skill level. Our unique approach combines the invaluable knowledge of local guides with the dedicated customer support provided by our administrative team. With a focus on flexibility and progressive client-centric policies regarding reservations, payments, and cancellations, we strive to create a smooth and unforgettable experience for you. We can’t wait to share our passion for North Dakota’s birds with you!

Noah Kuck – Guide

Noah Kuck is a 24-year-old birder and tour guide. Born in Fargo, North Dakota and growing up in St. Cloud, Minnesota where his passion for birds grew, he became a guide at age 15 for the famous Detroit Lakes Festival of Birds in Minnesota guiding for many years until moving back to Fargo. Noah enjoys sharing his passion of birds with others and assists teaching ornithology at his college and birding throughout North Dakota...(expand for more)

Noah loves to get out and bird whenever possible, but specifically enjoys spring migration catching warblers on their way back to their breeding grounds. Noah has been very fortunate to travel to Mexico and South America and observe many tropical species.

Noah is the current Vice-President of the North Dakota Birding Society and loves to county bird in the state of North Dakota. Noah has also studied grassland birds within North Dakota and how they are coexisting with cattle and ranchers as well as Piping Plovers along the Missouri River. He assists in teaching students’ ornithology at his college as well as teaching eBird use to grow citizen science.

Seth Owens – Guide

Seth Owens is a lifelong North Dakotan who spends nearly every free moment behind the camera chasing wildlife across the country. His birding obsession stems from his outdoor-centered upbringing and education as a wildlife biologist...(expand for more)

If it has fur or feathers, it’s of interest to Seth, but his true addictions are photographing Grouse, Waterfowl, and other rare and elusive North Dakota species. His work has been featured in several magazines and publications, but his current biggest accomplishment is that he is the youngest person in history to photograph all 5 species of Prairie Grouse.

Seth is a dedicated educator, teaching Hunter’s Safety, coaching high school wrestling leading several habitat/pollinator education events, and biology field trips for local schools. He looks forward to sharing his skills and experience with his future tours.

Felipe Guerrero – Owner & Guide

Felipe started his birding career 17 years ago as a college student studying natural history and ecology in Prescott, Arizona. The more he learned about birds the more he discovered about himself and his passion for exploring the natural world and sharing the experience with others…(expand for more)

After several years of avian field surveys, graduate school, adventures in non-profit environmental education, and countless birding trips across the US and to destinations such as Chile, northern Mexico, and Dominican Republic, he started what would become American Birding Guides in 2018.

The avifauna of North American prairie ecosystems are of special importance to Felipe. Though he has spent virtually all of his time with species like Baird’s Sparrow, Sprague’s Pipit, and Chestnut-collared and Thick-billed Longspurs on their migration and wintering grounds in the southwest, he has developed an affinity for them over the years and looks forward to visiting them soon on their breeding grounds!

Felipe is the owner and lead guide of American Birding Guides and New Mexico Birding Guides. He is currently a member of the Arizona Bird Committee, and a former eBird reviewer for Yavapai, Navajo, and Apache Counties. In the past he served as Field Expeditions Chair and board member for Arizona Field Ornithologists, as well as board member for Prescott Audubon Society.