Private tours and programs
We offer private tours for events and retreats, as well as educational programs for schools & youth.
Request a tour date
If you were looking for a tour on a specific day, but there’s no tour scheduled, we invite you to email us and request that we add a tour.
If we think we can fill a tour on your requested date, we’ll add it to the public tour schedule — and we’ll notify you so you can be the first to snag tickets.
This option can be less expensive than a private group tour.
Private tours
We offer private tours for groups up to 40 people.
We’ve had people schedule private tours to celebrate a birthday, host a business retreat, or as a birding club outing.
Standard pricing
Our standard private tour pricing is $25 per person, with a minimum based on the day of the week.
Weekdays (Monday through Friday): $125 minimum
Weekends (Saturday and Sunday): $300 minimum
Gift economy pricing
We understand that our pricing may be out of reach for homeschool groups, birding clubs, and other non-profit groups with less of a budget.
In these cases, we use a gift economy model.
If you know that standard pricing is out of reach, please email us with an offer that works for your budget, and also supports our program. While considering your offer, please keep in mind that this is one of our main sources of income.
School & youth programs
Bring Philly Pigeon Tours to your school or community event!
Our co-founders and guides have backgrounds in natural sciences, human geography, birding, and more, so we can tailor educational programs to your students’ interests or curriculum. Or we can offer a pre-packaged program.
Topics for school and youth programs include (but are not limited to):
- Building empathy
- Evolution, adaptations, and domestication
- Ecological literacy, urban ecology, and biomimicry
- Urban and natural geography
- Pigeon-human relationships throughout history
- Building a brighter future
Standard pricing: 90-minute pigeon tour for up to 20 youth: $400
Alternate pricing: If our standard pricing doesn’t fit your budget, please reach out and we can figure out other options. We will not turn away anyone for lack of funds.
Email us to connect about school & youth programs.