2008 Festival Highlights:

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To contact us by e-mail, click here. To receive a 2009 Festival Brochure provide us your name and address. If you attended in 2007 or 2008 you are already on our mailing list. We expect to mail brochures in August.

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To become a 2009 sponsor or vendor, contact us by e-mail (click here) or phone our office for information.

Our 2008 Sponsors:

Our Partners

The Birdwatcher Store
Brunton Optics
Chula Vista Nature Center
Eagle Optics
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy
Scope City
Wild Birds Unlimited
Zeiss Sports Optics

2008 San Diego Bird Festival

Our Festival is over. Thanks to you, this has been our most successful Festval ever. We had visitors from 24 states, Canada, Panama, Sweden and Germany. More than 375 people registered for events.

Here is the Festival bird list. Our trips yielded 246 species observed. Nine of our trips netted more than 100 species. For a pdf copy, click here.

We have just posted photos of our 2008 Festival. To see them, click here.

What we are planning for 2009

The 2009 San Diego Bird Festival will be held from March 5th to March 8th at Marina Village. Our keynote speaker will be David Sibley. David will also be on a border trip and will conduct a bird drawing workshop. We will have a combined workshop and trip featuring woodpeckers of San Diego County lead by Steve Shunk. Sharon Stiteler (birdchick) will run her blog at the Festival and host a Birds and Beer mixer.

A three-day Baja California trip will preceed the Festival and a two-day trip to the Salton Sea will begin on Sunday. We have added several new trips including a behind the scenes visit to the San Diego Zoo avian collection, birding in the canyons, and a seven hour pelagic trip. We will repeat our most popular trips--Anza Borrego Desert, Camp Pendlton, Birding 100, and Birding along the Border.

New workshops will be added that focus on eBirding, basic Photoshop, desert wildflowers, attracting birds, and bird identification. The popular pelagic birding, optics guru, butterflies, and birdcall workshops will be repeated.

Exhibitor and vendor spaces will be enlarged and more closely integrated into the Festival registration and mixer area.

Details will be posted here as we progress with our planning.