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Indiana Dunes Birding Festival
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Visit Indiana Dunes Birding Festival website.Location: LAT/LONG: 41.633349, -87.053762
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Visitor Center, 1215 N State Road 49, Porter, Indiana 46304
Dates & Times
Date:
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Time:
6:00 AM
Duration:
11 hours
Type of Event
Cultural/Craft Demonstration
Exhibition/Show
Festival
Guided Tour
Hike
Partner Program
Performance
Talk
Walk
Description
Celebrate the migration of birdlife through the Indiana Dunes region this May 14-17 at the sixth annual Indiana Dunes Birding Festival. The festival is a joint partnership with the region’s major environmental groups highlighting the dunes area’s rich biodiversity and bird watching opportunities to create a positive impact on the economic, conservation, and environmental education for visitors and residents to the Indiana Dunes region. The event is being organized by the Indiana Audubon Society and includes both the Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes State Park as site hosts.
The four-day festival will include over 150 guided field trips and car pool tours, presentations, workshops, and social events to view and learn about migrating birds within the dunes area, Evening events include special excursions for night birds, and a family friendly “birds and brew” social event on multiple nights.
Registration for priority Indiana Audubon Society members begins in early March. Registration can be found online at www.indunesbirdingfestival.com.
Many partners have come together to make the festival a reality. More information, including the 2020 keynote speaker will be released later this fall. Mark your calendars now and plan to attend!
2020 Festival Keynote: Scott Weidensaul
A World of Wings: Migratory Birds on a Changing Planet
Saturday 5:30pm – 9:30pm / Sand Creek Country Club, Chesterton, IN
Even as scientists make astounding discoveries about the navigational and physiological feats that enable migratory birds to cross immense oceans or fly above the highest mountains, go weeks without sleep or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch, humans have brought many migrants to the brink. Based on his forthcoming book "A World of Wings," author and researcher Scott Weidensaul takes you around the globe -- with researchers in the lab probing the limits of what migrating birds can do, to the shores of the Yellow Sea in China, the remote mountains of northeastern India where tribal villages saved the greatest gathering of falcons on the planet, and the Mediterranean, where activists and police are battle bird poachers -- to learn how people are fighting to understand and save the world's great bird migrations.
Festival Headliner: Sarah Saunders
Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink
Thursday 11:30am – 12:30pm / Indiana Dunes Visitor Center
Festival Headliner: Hannah and Erik Go Birding!
The Birds Don’t Know They’re Special!
Friday 11:30am – 12:30pm / Indiana Dunes Visitor Center
Festival Headliner: Marc Kramer and Eliana Ardila Ardila
Birding by Bus: Where Van Life Meets Birding
Saturday 11:30am – 12:30pm / Indiana Dunes Visitor Center
Festival Headliner: Adriaan Michiel Dokter
3 Billion Birds Lost: A Biodiversity Crisis
Sunday 11:30am – 12:30pm / Indiana Dunes Visitor Center
More information
Reservation or Registration: Yes
Visit Indiana Dunes Birding Festival website.
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