Birding festivals are an opportunity to share your interest in and to learn more about wild birds. I wrote about the upcoming Snow Goose Festival in the Sacramento Valley wetlands and now U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, who manage the National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) systems have assembled a list of noteworthy Birding Festivals of 2017.
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Winter festivals focus on overwintering wetlands in the main flyways of the U.S. such as Festival of the Cranes at Wheeler NWR (Alabama) in the Mississippi Flyway. Another featuring waterfowl is the Winter Wings Festival in Klamath Falls (Oregon) in the Pacific Flyway. This festival includes several NWRs and a national park.
The four-day festival offers visitors the chance to visit nearby Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Crater Lake National Park and other Klamath Basin birding hotspots.
Later in spring, the Attwater Prairie Chicken Festival (Texas) honors the endangered Attwater’s prairie-chicken in its coastal prairie habitat. You can see the bird’s elaborate courtship display.
The USFWS article lists festivals across the U.S. throughout the year. From bald eagles to songbirds, sparrows to pelicans, prairie potholes to the Great Lakes, southwest desert to far northwest Alaska, birding festivals are somewhere near you.
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