7th Annual Birding & Nature Festival

Mark your calendars…The 7th Annual Georgia’s Colonial Coast Birding & Nature Festival will take place October 8th-12th at Jekyll Island and along the GA coast. Come for the weekend, just a day or a few hours. Activities span the entire Georgia Coast and will appeal to a wide spectrum of the public from the casual nature enthusiast to the serious birdwatcher. An exhibit hall,”The Rookery”, featuring conservation-based organizations and vendors, will be in the Jekyll Island Convention Center.

There will be seminars, interactive programs, field trips, boat trips to barrier islands in outstanding natural habitats spanning the entire GA coast. They will be guided by expert naturalists and biologists. The Jekyll Island Convention Center will have “The Rookery”, an exhibit hall with conservation based organizations and vendors, live raptor show, activities for children and much more. Saturday night the keynote speaker is Donald Kroodsma, author The Singing Life of Birds.”

Early registration begins August 29th online and most popular field trips will likely fill up quickly. For information please visit www.jekyllisland.com, email info@coastalbirding.org or call 1-877-4jekyll.