The Othello Sandhill Crane Festival announced the 2023 theme as “Silver Anniversary, Celebrating Our Annual Visitors.” The 25th annual festival will be held March 24-26, 2023 in Othello Washington. The festival will be in the same locations as last year. The lectures will be held at the Othello Nazarene Church, 835 S 10th Ave, Othello, ... Read more
he Brant Wildlife Festival is held in central Vancouver Island which boasts one of the richest levels of biodiversity in Canada. Our area is within the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region. Herring spawn, brant migration and many other species migrate at the same time and can be seen on our shores and in our waters exciting ... Read more
The John Scharff Migratory Bird Festival, centered in Burns in the Harney Basin of southeast Oregon, has been running for over 30 years each April. It features the spectacular spring migration of thousands of migratory birds as they rest and feed in the wide open spaces of Oregon's high desert. The festival offers birding activities ... Read more
The North Olympic Peninsula, a strip of prairie and forest between million-acre Olympic National Park and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is widely known as a great place for bird watching. The April date of Olympic BirdFest is timed to overlap wintering birds such as Harlequin and Long tailed ducks, songbirds, and seabirds with ... Read more
Each spring, hundreds of thousands of shorebirds stop to rest and feed along the Washington Coast and in the Grays Harbor estuary during their migration northward. Coming from as far south as Argentina, these Arctic-bound shorebirds are among the world’s greatest migrants. Some birds travel over 15,000 miles round trip! The concentration of birds during ... Read more
