Aiken is notified of birding festivals around the nation. We’ve provided links here to those and any other event that catches our attention. For an impressively comprehensive list, check the ABA website. Be sure to register early, as festival field trips fill up quickly.

Pikes Peak Birding and Nature Festival
May 19 – 21, 2023

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Birding Festivals by month:

January

Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, CA

Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, FL (discontinued; may resume in 2024)

Wings over Willcox, AZ

Everglades Birding Festival, FL

February

Laredo Birding Festival, TX

High Plains Snow Goose Festival, Lamar, CO

March

The Rivers & Wildlife Celebration: Nebraska’s Crane Festival, in Kearney

Monte Vista Crane Festival, Alamosa, CO

April

Nebraska Prairie Chicken Tours

Wings ‘N’ Wetlands Festival, Great Bend, KS

Karvel Birding Festival, Karvel, CO

Olympic Birdfest, Neah Bay tour, & San Juan Islands Cruise, WA

May

Bent on Birding, Bent County, CO

Southwest Wings – Spring Fling, Sierra Vista, AZ

Pikes Peak Birding & Nature Festival, El Paso County, CO

Ute Mountain/Mesa Verde Birding Festival, Cortez, Colorado

Yakutat Tern Festival, Yakutat, AK

July

Colorado Field Ornithologist Annual Convention, CO (date varies)

National Audubon Convention

August

Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival, Sierra Vista, AZ

Southeast Arizona Birding Festival, AZ

September

Cheyenne/High Plains Bird-day Party, WY

Yampa Valley Crane Festival, Steamboat Springs, CO

Birding Festival of the Keys, FL

November

Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival, TX

December

Festival of the Cranes, Bosque del Apache, NM