The 2024 San Diego Bird Festival will take place Feb 21-25, 2024. San Diego Bird Festival is a celebration of the wild birds, habitats and folks of San Diego County.
For an inventory of applications taking place at Marina Village Conference Center, please click on right here.
Information for applications with area and registration are available within the on-line catalog, accessed via the button beneath. You can analysis the available applications and put them in your cart. Once you will have placed a program in your cart, you will have 45 minutes to finish the transaction. It’s a bit bit like on-line purchasing!
Wondering the place you may keep? Check out these choices: Lodging on the San Diego Bird Festival
Click right here for an inventory of species seen within the full pageant in 2023.
Registration is now open!
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The San Diego Bird Festival welcomes individuals of all backgrounds, skills, orientations, and beliefs to take part and asks all members to be welcoming, respectful, grateful, and useful in direction of others and report any conduct that’s counter to this settlement.
We are happy to announce our keynote audio system for 2024!
Wednesday, February 21
Julia Zarankin
Ms. Zarankin is a Toronto-based award-winning author, cultural tour information and lecturer. Her memoir, Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder, is a Canadian bestseller and her writing has been featured in Audubon, Birding Magazine, Canadian Geographic, The Walrus, and The Globe and Mail. When not hanging out with a recognizing scope at sewage lagoons in hopes of getting a greater deal with on shorebirds, Julia lectures to lifelong learners in and round Toronto.
The follow of birding isn’t nearly seeing as many birds as attainable. In reality, birding has an awesome deal to show us about how one can stay life and how one can be a greater human being. Not solely did birding assist Julia really feel extra current, nevertheless it additionally taught her how one can see the world with extra nuance and empathy.
Thursday February 22
Tiana Williams-Claussen
Tiana Williams-Claussen is a member of the Yurok Tribe and was raised in Klamath, CA on the Yurok Reservation. She acquired her BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University and returned to serve her tribe. She is presently pursuing a Master of Sciences in Natural Resources from California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt, and serves because the Yurok Tribe Wildlife Department Director. Her staff’s work contains the reintroduction of California Condors to Yurok nation, integrating conventional data from the Yurok group into authorities wildlife administration practices. Her native upbringing and formal training enable her to bridge the hole between conventional understandings of the world, and people rooted in Western-science, supporting a cohesive, well-informed strategy to ecosystem administration.
Friday, February 23
Christian Cooper
Christian Cooper is a NY Times best-selling writer, along with his debut memoir, Better Living Through Birding. He can also be the Host and a Consulting Producer for National Geographic’s hit sequence: Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper. Practically born with a pair of binoculars in his palms, he served as president of the Harvard Ornithological Club in his school days; presently as a vp of New York City Audubon he advocates for higher, safer access to inexperienced areas for all, with a concentrate on outreach to youth in underserved communities. A longtime activist on problems with racial justice and LGBTQ equality, Christian mixed his passions within the BLM graphic brief story “It’s a Bird” from DC Comics, and he continues to hunt synergy on the intersections of storytelling, progressivism, and environmentalism.
Choose from every day Birding the Border, 100 or More, Mountain Foothill journeys. We’ll even have journeys to North County Hot Spots, Rancho Jamul, a visit to Camp Pendleton, and a Grebes and Wine journey. These journeys embody transportation and lunch.
These subject journeys don’t embody transportation. Meet us within the subject for an awesome birding expertise! We’ll have every day Dances with Grebes journeys to see the courtship conduct of Western and Clark’s Grebes, hands-on Digiscoping walks with Swarovski Optik, discover our shoreline in Rocky Shores and San Elijo Lagoon, or strive Birding by Bike. Finish your birding day with a every day walk by the San Diego River Mouth.
We are scheduling every day kayak journeys in South Bay, two Mission Bay kayak journeys, and three Pelagic Trips. All boat journeys are topic to altering climate circumstances. Alternative actions, exchanges and refunds are available if climate circumstances immediate cancellation.
Uncommon Saloon, sponsored by Vortex Optics, is open from 3-6 within the Exhibit corridor Weds-Saturday. Saturday evening, be a part of us for trivia and drinks at an area pub. Or do a chook puzzle with us within the dockside room.
Camp Surfbird is a brand new, distinctive in a single day camp expertise designed particularly for youth ages 13-17 to benefit from the San Diego Bird Festival to the fullest. Working collectively, San Diego Audubon and the American Birding Association have deliberate an unforgettable weekend for young birders to collect and discover the area with like-minded friends. Campers might be taking part in chaperoned pageant actions and experiences only for them. Base camp is positioned on the YMCA Camp Surf in Imperial Beach, CA.
During our weekend collectively, campers will increase upon their birding expertise, be taught in regards to the pure historical past of coastal California, meet different young individuals with comparable pursuits, discover careers and alternatives in ornithology, analysis, and conservation whereas networking with leaders within the subject.
Includes:
Lodging for two nights at Camp Surf, positioned in Imperial Beach
Daily transportation to and from Marina Village for pageant actions
Meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
2 full-day pageant subject journeys (4 to select from)
Optional participation in keynote talks
Beach actions on night of Feb 24
Not included:
Twin-sized sheets/bedding and towels
The assembly place for this exercise is at Marina Village Conference Center. Campers might be transported to Camp Surf after the Keynote speaker. Campers touring by air or practice should be capable to journey independently.
