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NEW Beginning Bird Watching Tours

8am-11pm
20 October '07
3 & 17 November '07
1, 15, & 29 December '07
12 & 26 January '08
9 & 23 February '08
8 & 22 March '08

Reservations are not required. Participants should meet at the Pelican Island Welcome and Orientation Area, the first parking area located on north Historic Jungle Trail.
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Suggested Items to bring
Binoculars, camera, bird id book, comfortable shoes, water.

What to expect
Participants should expect to walk up to 1-1/2 miles over the course of the 3-hour tour.
Over 130 species of birds use the refuge year round and the refuge is popular for a variety of water birds during winter migration season. The tour will visit a popular birding spot on Bird's Impoundment Trail and then tour The Centennial Trail, which culminates to an ADA observation tower overlooking the Pelican Island Rookery.

 

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SPECIAL EVENTS

16th Annual
Pelican Island
Wildlife Festival

March 8, 2008

2008 event information
coming soon

EVENT INFORMATION

 

 


 




Link to the 
Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival web site.


LIST OF FLORIDA BIRDING & WILDLIFE FESTIVALS




   

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