Italy may be Europe’s best kept birding secret. Infact, Italy is home to more than 500 bird species, and we are still counting. The wide range of habitats in Italy offer something for the novice, experienced or the adventurer’s birder. Birding Italy is specialized in nature guidance and birdwatching outings. It was created by independent guides operating in Italy (mainly in the Po Delta, Sicily and Sardinia), joining forces to offer flexible and valuable services to individuals, groups and birdwatching travel companies. Our experienced leaders are not only highly skilled birders but also fun-loving people who genuinely enjoy guiding and take pride in making the tour a pleasant experience for each participant. Birding Italy is not a birding travel agency or a package holiday maker. In fact, such operators oftenly trust in us for their birding and nature tours. We offer outstanding outings, the best itineraries, birdwatching tours design and professional advice to research projects, photographers and TV filming teams. We would be happy to assist you in traveling and birding in Italy, we have many contacts in the birding and travel industry through years of experience and we know the countries natural attractions. Feel free to contact us for anything.. We focus in birdwatching and nature, being pride on offering friendly, professionally-led, flexible and well organised bird and nature outings. Our aim is for everyone to return at the end of the trip having had a thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding experience.
We also offer basic programs to encourage birdwatching as an outstanding way to discover our nature and enjoy with the unique Mediterranean fauna & flora visiting the best preserved areas, protected lands and private properties.
If you want to enjoy a smooth, friendly and professionally led bird outing; if you want to secure in your tours an outstanding guiding service for your clients; or if you need to design the best itinerary to see all these elusives species and Mediterranean specialities, feel free to contact us, as we offer our best for your best sights.
If you are visiting Italy and you have one or more free days, take advantage of it and set out birdwatching with an experienced guide. We know the birds, we know the places and we know how to get there. Beginners will find help on hand on their excursions. For the more experienced birdwatchers there are always exciting discoveries to be made. Our aim is to help people to see and enjoy birds, and to have leisurely, happy trips - with enough flexibility for the real keen birder to be well satisfied.

Fees: Possible to arrange escorted trips to any bird site in Italy. Fees depends entirely on duration of the trip and number of passengers. Thank you for your interest to Birding Italy, which was founded by Menotti Passarella to promote environmental education and encourage conservation in Italy.

Menotti Passarella

(Po Delta & Venice, Italy)

Menotti is an avid birder who loves to share his knowledge with anyone and everyone. He is a native of NE Italy and has led birding and nature-study trips throughout the Po Delta and the Lagoon of Venice for many individuals and groups. His 20+ years (10 of those years spent leading professionally) of intensive birding in the Po Delta has provided him with intimate knowledge of the places where birds gather, nest, feed and hide. He is also knowledgeable of the area's fauna and flora and current environmental issues.. Menotti enthusiasm for birding is contagious and makes for exciting and fun days in the field. Menotti speaks English, French, a little German and Spanish and of course Italian. Menotti has acquired a great experience on the birds of NE Italy, discovering new breeding species (among wich: Cattle Egret and White Stork) and numerous rarities (some of which: River Warbler and Ring-billed Gull, both first for Italy; Iceland Gull and Sabine’s Gull, both third Italian records). He wrote about 50 publications and is co-author of the Check-list of the Emilia-Romagna region and member of the C.O.I. (Italian Ornithological Commission – Bird Rarity Commitee). About 370 species of birds have been recorded in the Po Delta, that means the 75% of the whole Italian avifauna, and you would be are able to find easily there birds rarely observed elsewhere in Italy, such as Pygmy Cormorant, Spoonbill, Glossy Ibis, Ferruginous Duck, Red-crested Pochard, Collared Pratincole, Slender-billed Gull, Whiskered Tern, Lesser-crested Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Red-footed Falcon, Lesser Grey Shrike and one of the few Flamingo breeding colony in the Mediterranean. He was among the first to practice the digiscoping in Italy, and he is also the founder of the first Italian mailing list on digiscoping. He runs his business organization Aster and is also the founder of Birding Italy, the whole Italy bird site in internet