A great way to enjoy bird watching is by going to festivals—they’re organized to get you to great birding spots at a great time of year, and they’re a great way to meet people. Experts and locals help you see more birds, and you’ll meet other visitors who share your hobby. While you’re there, keep an eye out for Cornell Lab representatives, as we do attend several festivals each year.
To list your festival on this page, please contact our advertising manager:Susanna Lawson [email protected]
Festivals by Location
See the map and listings, below, for upcoming festivals.
November 4, 2022 – November 6, 2022
Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival
November 6, 2022 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Fall Migration Celebration
November 9, 2022 – November 13, 2022
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
November 9, 2022 – November 12, 2022
Alaska Bald Eagle Festival
November 11, 2022 – November 12, 2022
Virginia Bluebird Society Conference
November 12, 2022 – All Day
Greater Cape Ann Chamber’s Annual Birding Boat Trip
November 14, 2022 – November 20, 2022
Azores Birdwatching Arts Festival
November 18, 2022 – November 20, 2022
Central Valley Birding Symposium
November 24, 2022 – November 27, 2022
Waterfowl Weekend at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
December 1, 2022 – December 5, 2022
North Shore Birding Festival
December 1, 2022 – December 3, 2022
Festival of the Cranes
December 10, 2022 – December 11, 2022
Holiday With The Cranes
December 10, 2022 – February 5, 2023
Land Between the Lakes Winter Eagle Van Tours
January 12, 2023 – January 15, 2023
Carolina Bird Club Winter Birding Weekend
January 12, 2023 – January 16, 2023
Everglades Birding Festival
January 13, 2023 – January 15, 2023
Wings of Winter Birding Festival
January 13, 2023 – January 16, 2023
Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival
January 13, 2023 – January 15, 2024
Wings Over Willcox Birding & Nature Festival
January 14, 2023 – January 21, 2023
18th Rookery Bay Festival of Birds
January 14, 2023 @ 7:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
Salton Sea Bird Festival
January 14, 2023 @ 8:00 am – January 15, 2023 @ 4:00 pm EST
Annual Tennessee Sandhill Crane Festival
January 26, 2023 – January 29, 2023
Annual Eagles & Agriculture
January 26, 2023 – January 29, 2023
Annual Snow Goose Festival of the Pacific Flyway
January 26, 2023 – January 31, 2023
Eagles Over Monroe
February 1, 2023 – February 5, 2023
Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival — permanently closed
February 2, 2023 – February 5, 2023
20th Annual High Plains Snow Goose Festival
February 2, 2023 – February 4, 2023
10th Annual Laredo Birding Festival
February 4, 2023 @ 8:00 am – 2:00 pm EST
Cumberland County Winter Eagle Festival
February 4, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm PST
Galt Winter Bird Festival
February 10, 2023 – February 12, 2023
28th San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival
February 10, 2023 – February 12, 2023
Hammock Coast Birding Festival
February 16, 2023 – February 19, 2023
Colombia Birdfair
February 17, 2023 – February 20, 2023
Winter Wings Festival
February 18, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm EST
Orlando Wetlands Festival
February 18, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm EST
Elachee Great Backyard Bird Count Festivities
February 19, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm EST
California Botanic Garden Family Bird Fest
February 22, 2023 – February 26, 2023
San Diego Bird Festival
February 23, 2023 – February 26, 2023
Port Aransas Whooping Crane Festival
February 24, 2023 – February 25, 2023
Friends of Goose Pond Marsh Madness Sandhill Crane and Migratory Bird Festival
February 24, 2023 – February 26, 2023
Vallarta Bird and Nature Festival
February 24, 2023 – February 25, 2023
14th Annual Marsh Madness
March 4, 2023 – March 5, 2023
International Festival of Owls
March 4, 2023 – April 8, 2023
Nebraska Crane Season
March 4, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm CST
NatureFest
March 10, 2023 – March 12, 2023
40th Monte Vista Crane Festival
March 17, 2023 – March 19, 2023
20th Wings Over Water Northwest Birding Festival
March 18, 2023 – March 19, 2023
Annual Spring Nature Festival
March 18, 2023 @ 10:00 am – March 19, 2023 @ 4:00 pm EDT
Waterfowl Weekend
March 24, 2023 – March 26, 2023
Annual Matagorda Bay Birdfest
March 24, 2023 – March 26, 2023
Othello Sandhill Crane Festival
March 25, 2023 – March 26, 2023
Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Festival
March 25, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm PDT
Tundra Swan Festival
March 30, 2023 – April 1, 2023
Yuma Bird, Nature, and History Festival
March 31, 2023 – April 8, 2023
Brant Wildlife Festival
April 1, 2023 – April 30, 2023
A Celebration of Swans
April 1, 2023 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT
Maryland Osprey and Nature Festival
April 1, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Wings Over Surfside
April 13, 2023 – April 16, 2023
Olympic Birdfest
April 13, 2023 – April 16, 2023
Annual Harney County Migratory Bird Festival
April 13, 2023 – April 16, 2023
Kansas Prairie-Chicken Festival
April 13, 2023 – April 16, 2023
Godwit Days
April 14, 2023 – April 15, 2023
Grand Isle Migratory Bird Festival
April 15, 2023 – All Day
Dinosaur Valley’s Spring Wingding
April 15, 2023 – May 15, 2023
The 27th Great Texas Birding Classic
April 15, 2023 – All Day
Virginia Osprey Festival in Colonial Beach
April 16, 2023 @ 4:30 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Festival
April 19, 2023 – April 22, 2023
Spring Chirp
April 20, 2023 – April 23, 2023
Galveston FeatherFest Birding & Nature Photography Festival
April 21, 2023 – April 23, 2023
Point Reyes Birding and Nature Festival
April 21, 2023 – April 23, 2023
Balcones Songbird Festival
April 22, 2023 – May 21, 2023
Georgia Bird Fest
April 22, 2023 – May 13, 2023
Migratory Bird Fest and Birdathon
April 22, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm EDT
34th Annual “Ding” Darling Days
April 23, 2023 – April 30, 2023
Pannonian BirdExperience
April 26, 2023 – April 30, 2023
Birdiest Festival in America
April 27, 2023 – April 29, 2023
Red Cliffs Bird Fest at Greater Zion
April 27, 2023 – April 30, 2023
Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival
April 27, 2023 – April 30, 2023
Stikine River Birding Festival
April 28, 2023 – April 30, 2023
Annual Bird of Prey Days at Braddock Bay
April 28, 2023 – April 30, 2023
Mountain Plover Festival
April 29, 2023 – All Day
Arrow Rock Birds & Bees
April 29, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm EDT
California Duck Days
May 1, 2023 – May 6, 2023
New River Birding & Nature Festival
May 3, 2023 – May 7, 2023
Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival
May 3, 2023 – May 6, 2023
Southwest Wings Spring Fling
May 4, 2023 – May 7, 2023
Copper River Delta Shorebird Festival
May 5, 2023 – May 14, 2023
The Biggest Week in American Birding
May 5, 2023 – May 7, 2023
Grays Harbor Shorebird and Nature Festival
May 5, 2023 – May 7, 2023
Hatchie BirdFest
May 8, 2023 – May 14, 2023
Wings Over the Rockies Nature Festival
May 11, 2023 – May 14, 2023
Indiana Dunes Birding Festival
May 12, 2023 – May 14, 2023
Festival of the Birds at Presque Isle
May 12, 2023 – May 14, 2023
Yakima River Canyon Bird Fest
May 12, 2023 – May 14, 2023
Annual Creston Valley Bird Fest
May 13, 2023 – All Day
Land Between the Lakes World Migratory Bird Day
May 18, 2023 – May 21, 2023
Leavenworth Spring BirdFest
May 18, 2023 – May 20, 2023
26th Annual Detroit Lakes Festival of Birds
May 18, 2023 – May 31, 2023
Leelanau BirdFest
May 18, 2023 – May 21, 2023
25th Great Salt Lake Bird Festival
May 19, 2023 – May 21, 2023
75th Maryland Ornithological Society Annual Convention
May 19, 2023 – May 21, 2023
Annual Ladd Marsh Bird Festival
May 19, 2023 – May 21, 2023
Wings, Waves & Woods
May 19, 2023 @ 8:00 am – May 22, 2023 @ 5:00 pm EDT
Meadowlark Nature Festival
May 20, 2023 – May 21, 2023
Presqu’ile Warblers and Whimbrels Weekend
May 20, 2023 – All Day
Tualatin River Bird Festival
May 26, 2023 – June 4, 2023
25th Huron Fringe Birding Festival
May 26, 2023 – May 29, 2023
Down East Spring Birding Festival
May 27, 2023 – May 28, 2023
Songbird Festival
May 31, 2023 – June 4, 2023
Aldo Leopold Festival
June 1, 2023 – June 4, 2023
Dean Hale Woodpecker Festival
June 1, 2023 – June 4, 2023
24th Annual Acadia Birding Festival
June 1, 2023 @ 9:00 am – June 3, 2023 @ 4:30 pm EDT
Yakutat Tern Festival
June 2, 2023 – June 4, 2023
Great Adirondack Birding Celebration (GABC)
June 2, 2023 – June 3, 2023
Kirtland’s Warbler Festival
June 3, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm MST
Snake River Raptor Fest
June 8, 2023 – June 11, 2023
Adirondack Boreal Birding Festival
June 9, 2023 – June 11, 2023
Rangeley Birding Festival
June 16, 2023 – June 18, 2023
Mono Basin Bird Chautauqua
July 28, 2023 – July 30, 2023
Sedona Hummingbird Festival
August 2, 2023 – August 5, 2023
Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival
August 5, 2023 @ 10:00 am – August 6, 2023 @ 4:00 pm EDT
Land Between the Lakes Hummingbird Festival
August 9, 2023 – August 13, 2023
Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
August 17, 2023 – August 20, 2023
Davis Mountains Hummingbird Celebration
August 18, 2023 – August 20, 2023
Tanana Valley Sandhill Crane Festival
August 31, 2023 – September 3, 2023
Yampa Valley Crane Festival
September 9, 2023 – September 10, 2023
Hummingbird Migration & Nature Celebration
September 9, 2023 @ 10:00 am – September 10, 2023 @ 4:00 pm EDT
Audubon Society of Rhode Island Raptor Weekend
September 16, 2023 – All Day
Fall Migration Festival
September 23, 2023 – September 30, 2023
Houston Bird Week
September 23, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm EDT
Philly Fall Nature Fest
September 29, 2023 – October 2, 2023
Carolina Bird Club Fall Birding Weekend
October 21, 2023 – All Day
Hawai’i Island Festival of Birds
November 10, 2023 – November 12, 2023
San Quintin Bay Bird Festival
