Check out these events coming this summer and get out there and share all your hard work, get tips from fellow bird watchers. Make friends and share all those secret birding spots.

Spring Wings Bird Festival
May 8-10 Fallon, Nevada

These internationally recognized wetlands are temporary home to over 260 species of birds, including thousands of White-faced ibis, Long-billed dowitcher, American white pelicans, Black-necked stilts, American avocets, and many other waterfowl and waterbirds. During the 2008 festival, a respectable 147 different species were logged - not a festival record, but a nice, tidy sum nonetheless.

link: http://www.birdingguide.com/events/spring-wings-birding-festival.html

Detroit Lakes Birding Festsival
May 14th - 17th Detroit Lakes, Minnesota

Set the alarm. Grab the binoculars. Put on good walking shoes. Serious birders flock here each spring for the annual Detroit Lakes Festival of Birds.

The 12th annual Festival of Birds is scheduled for May 14-17, 2009 with keynote speaker Richard Crossley. Crossley is an Englishman who traveled the world studying birds. He became obsessed with bird photography while co-authoring The Shorebird Guide. He now lives in West Cape May with his wife Debra and two daughters. Another planned highlight of the 2009 festival is news about the Canadian Birding Trail, with featured sites such as Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre.

link: http://www.birdingguide.com/events/detroit-lakes-festival.html

Mazatlan Bird Festival
January 16 - 19 Mazatlan, Mexico

The 1st Mazatlan Bird Festival will highlight the Tufted Jay and the efforts towards its conservation. Situated high in the beautiful pine/oak forested canyons of the Western Sierra Madre the Tufted Jay Preserve was created to protect the habitat of the highly endemic Tufted Jay and other endemic species such as the Brown-backed Solitaire, Military Macaw, Aztec Thrush, Red Warbler, Red-headed Tanager and the Green-striped Brushfinch.

link: http://www.birdingguide.com/events/mazatlan-birding-festival.html

Morro Bay Winter Birding Festival
January16-19 Morro Bay, California

Located on the Pacific Flyway, on California’s Central Coast approximately halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, Morro Bay is recognized as a globally important birding area and typically ranks in the top five nationally during the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Over 200 bird species either overwinter here or call it their permanent home, including such birds as the California Brown Pelican and Peregrine Falcon.


link: http://www.birdingguide.com/events/morro-bay-winter-birding-festival.html

Mountain Lake Migratory Bird Festival

May 29-31 Mountain Lake, Virginia

Our mission is to provide an entertaining and informative spring event about the birds of the mountain region of southwest Virginia. The events of the festival will educate birders of all interest levels and ages. The festival will promote tourism in the area and inform visitors of the many outdoor activities available in the New River Valley. We hope you enjoy your weekend and return to this
event next year.


link: http://www.birdingguide.com/events/mountain-lake-birding-festival.html


Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
November 5-9 Harlingen, Texas

We hope that you will join us this fall for the five days of avian wonder that is the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival. We promise that you will have the opportunity to enhance your birding skills, add to your life-list and meet others eager to share in the challenge and excitement of birding deep South Texas!


link: http://www.birdingguide.com/events/rio-grande-valley-birding-festival.html

Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival
January 21-26 Titusville, Florida

The Festival focuses on the abundance and diversity of the natural world around us - from the Atlantic Ocean westward through the Indian River Lagoon estuary system to the St. Johns River and surrounding wetlands. Educational emphasis is placed on the preservation and management of animals and their habitats, as well as the cultural heritage and historical venues to be found in East Central Florida. The Festival features bird and wildlife watching opportunities, nature and technology tours, boat and kayaking trips, field trips, seminars, workshops, photography sessions and evening keynote presentations.


link: http://www.birdingguide.com/events/space-coast-birding-festival.html