It's Time to Get Your Bird On! Early-Bird Passes to the Point Reyes Birding & Nature Festival are on Sale Now! We are excited for this year's event, as we have an amazing line up of local, national, and international speakers joining us from April 22nd - 25th featuring a variety of topics. Just some of our featured classes included in the four-day online event: - Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird with Katie Fallon
- Book Club: A Special Q& A with Julie Zickefoose on her book: Saving Jemima: Life and Love with A Hard-Luck Jay
- Nature Journaling, Building a Bigger Bird Brain with John Muir Laws
- A Hoot of a Time: Owls of Marin County with Joe Mueller
- Past, Present & Future with Richard Crossley
- Great Warriors: Hummingbirds, Fire & Conserving Mexican Biodiversity with Dr. Sarahy Contreras-Martínez & Juan Pablo Galván Martínez
- A Year with the Urban Gray Fox with Bill Leikam
- Snouts & Bills: The Relationship Between Northern Elephant Seals and the Birds the Benefit with Dr. Sarah Allen
- Is the Monarch Vanishing from the West? with Mia Monroe, Dr. Robert Michael Pyle, and Dr. Cheryl Schultz.
- Migrating California Shorebirds: A Look at Our Coastal Species at Bodega Bay with Lisa Hug
- Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada: A New Perspective on Field Guides with Keith Hansen & David Wimpfheimer.
- Check Out the Full Program and Speaker Line Up!
By bringing the Festival online, we are protecting the health and safety of our participants, guides, and team, because we are not out of this pandemic yet! A benefit to online classes, this year have been able to include a broad range of topics and speakers from across the North American continent and deliver the classes right to your home. How You Can Participate: - Purchase Live Pass and join the fun each day and interact with the speakers.
- Purchase a Live+Video Pass option that allows you to join the events that you can and then use the video pass later to catch up on the classes you missed. The video passes will be live throughout 2021 giving you lots of time to catch up on what you missed.
Early-Bird passes are on sale now through April 16th to received reduced pricing on all 24 onlice classes! EAC members receive additional discounts. Got Kiddos? Join the one-day FREE Youth & Family Virtual Program on Saturday April 24th! Jump into the Zoom meeting throughout the day to learn about nature journaling, read bird books, learn bird Zoomba dance, make an origami crane, and more! Scroll down to learn more. Need a Scholarship? Support a Scholarship? Next week we will be launching our scholarship portal for teachers, students, and individuals in financial need. We will send out an update with that information soon. If you want to help support scholarships to the Festival please consider a contribution as a Festival sponsor here. Supporting EAC's Mission The Festival is an important part of EAC's annual fundraising as this event helps us to protect and sustain the unique lands, waters, and biodiversity of West Marin. We have been doing this for 50 years and your support of the Festival makes sure we are here for the next 50 years protecting what you love in coastal Marin. I hope to see you there! |