Registration opens on December 6 rookerybay.org/events/festival-of-birds
Preregistration
required for all field trips, keynote presentation and activities
The annual
Festival of Birds will be held Jan.16-20 and includes guided field trips to
wildlife hotspots around Southwest Florida, bird featured activities throughout
the month and a special keynote presentation and reception featuring Dr. Jerry
Jackson, host of “With the Wild Things” on WGCU public radio. Dr. Jackson
is a world-renowned wildlife biologist, ornithologist and Professor Emeritus at
Florida Gulf Coast University. Together with WGCU Public Media, Rookery Bay is
celebrating Dr. Jackson’s 25-year anniversary broadcasting “With the Wild
Things” a one-minute look at a particular environmental theme on WGCU public
radio. Every weekday morning at 7:19 am, Dr. Jackson takes listeners to Southwest
Florida’s beaches, swamps and preserves to learn about “the wild things.”
Field trips
include birding walks, boat trips, kayaking adventures, swamp tromps and swamp
buggy excursions to locations such as Six Mile Cypress Slough, Bunche Beach,
Clam Pass, Corkscrew Swamp, CREW Marsh Trails, Eagle Lakes Park, Fakahatchee
Strand, Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, Rookery Bay Research Reserve
and Tigertail Beach.
