Special Events

March 28-30, 2008--- Aleutian Goose Festival, Cresent City, CA
The 10th annual Aleutian Goose Festival is a birding, nature, and heritage celebration that offers 80 events, workshops, and guided excursions into the wildness of our globally outstanding natural areas: Redwood National and State Parks, the Smith River National Recreation Area, Castle Rock Wildlife Refuge, Tolowa Dunes State Park, and the Lake Earl Wildlife Area, and Lake Earl Coastal Lagoon. Our offerings will tempt everyone, from the most avid birder or botanist to the generalist nature lover or history buff.

April 17-23, 2008 --- Godwit Days, Arcata, CA
Extraordinary birding opportunities await you at the 13th annual Godwit Days spring migration bird festival. California’s North Coast offers towering redwoods, rocky ocean coasts, wild river valleys, expansive mudflats of Humboldt Bay, and the world-renowned Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, where over 271 species of birds have been sighted just minutes from the historic Arcata Plaza.

May 3, 2008 --- Endangered Species Faire, Chico, CA
For more that twenty-five years the Butte Environmental Council has hosted what has become Northern California’s largest and longest running environmental educational fair. Join the 29th annual Endangered Species Faire held in Cedar Grove in Bidwell Park from 10 am to 4 pm.

May 10, 2008 --- International Migratory Bird Day, Various National Wildlife Refuges
The International Migratory Bird Day started in 1993 and celebrates one of the most important and spectacular events in the life of a migratory bird - its journey between summer and winter homes.