California Bird Festivals

Bird festivals are fun. You meet other birders, visit new places, see their regular birds plus whatever rarities have dropped in, hear interesting presentations and discussions, admire – possibly buy – beautiful bird paintings and carvings, eat lunch and dinner with others, support their local economy and much more, not far from home. Make reservations in advance.  Events with dates marked with an asterisk (*) are probable, but not yet finalized. Events marked [Unknown] were canceled in prior years.

October 2012
9-15       Tues – Mon   National Wildlife Refuge Week Celebration              http://www.fws.gov/refuges/news/VisitYourNationalWildlifeRefuges_09262011.html
27   Saturday    Orange County Sea & Sage Book Sale & Pancake Breakfast 7:30am      http://www.seaandsageaudubon.org/SpecialEvents/SpecialEvents.html

November 2012
2-4          Fri – Sun      16th Annual Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival  http://www.cranefestival.com/
15-18      Thur – Sun   16th Annual Central Valley Birding Symposium           http://www.cvbirds.org/Symposium.htm

January 2013
18-21     Fri – Mon      17th Annual Morro Bay Bird Festival         http://morrobaybirdfestival.org/index.htm
24-27    Thur – Sun    14th Annual Chico Snow Goose Festival        http://www.snowgoosefestival.org/

February 2013
8-10      Fri – Sun        17th Annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival        http://www.sfbayflywayfestival.com/
14-17      Thur – Sun        32nd Annual Klamath Falls Winter Wings Festival        http://www.winterwingsfest.org/
*[Unknown]          Annual Salton Sea Birding Festival          http://www.newriverwetlands.com/
15-18      Fri-Mon        Great Backyard Bird Count        http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/
22-23     Fri-Sat     Davis California Duck Days    http://www.yolobasin.org/DuckDays2013.cfm               Registration: https://www.ticketturtle.com/index.php?preseason=ybf
2/28-3/3    Thur – Sun  16th Annual San Diego Bay Bird Festival     http://www.sandiegoaudubon.org/birdfest.htm

March 2013
9-10       Sat – Sun        Los Banos Wild on Wetlands Weekend        http://creec.edgateway.net/cs/creec5p/view/creec_res/934

April 2013
*18-20      Thur – Sun     Yuma Birding & Nature Festival       http://www.yumabirding.com/
18-24    Thur – Wed   18th Annual Arcata Godwit Days Bird Festival    http://www.godwitdays.org/
*20    Saturday     19th Annual Kern River Valley Spring Nature Festival                       http://kern.audubon.org/KRVSNF.htm
26-28  Fri – Sun     Point Reyes Birding & Nature Festival                  http://www.pointreyesbirdingfestival.org/site/

May 2013
[Unknown] 3-5     Fri – Sun      California Redwoods Bird & Nature Festival         http://www.calredwoodsbirdfest.org/
*4           Saturday     Clear Lake Heron Festival                    http://www.heronfestival.org/
*11         Saturday    International Migratory Bird Festival                                        http://www.birdday.org/
*11         Saturday      Tule Lake Migratory Bird Festival                                          http://www.fws.gov/klamathbasinrefuges/
*17-19  Fri – Sun     Spring Wings Bird Festival – Fallon, Nevada           http://www.springwings.org/

June 2013
[Unknown] 1   Saturday    3rd Annual Tahoe Int’l Migratory Bird Festival          http://www.tinsweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102&Itemid=178
14-16    Fri – Sun    12th Annual Mono Lake Bird Chautaqua                                   http://www.birdchautauqua.org/

August 2013
*10       Saturday      14th Annual Kern River Valley Hummingbird Celebration     http://kern.audubon.org/hummer_fest.htm

September 2013
21            Saturday      29th International Coastal Cleanup Day         http://sites.healthebay.org/volunteer/ccd/2011/default.as
*12-15     Thur – Sun   9th Annual Monterey Bay Birding Festival              http://montereybaybirding.org/
*28           Saturday       18th Annual Kern Valley Turkey Vulture Festival    http://kern.audubon.org/tvfest.htm
[Chuck Almdale}