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7th Annual Birding & Blues Festival - April 9, 10 & 11, 2010

Come Celebrate Nature with Your Head, Heart and Soul

Pre-registration will be available on or around February 15, 2010.

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2010 Featured Speaker - Paul Bannick

Award winning photographer, Paul Bannick specializes in the natural history of North America, with a special focus on his beloved Pacific Northwest . Paul has coupled his love of the outdoors with his skill as a photographer to create images intended to foster intimacy between the viewer and subject in order to inspire education and conservation.

http://paulbannick.com/imgs/paulbannick.jpgAn experienced naturalist and outdoor educator, Paul creates most of his images while kayaking, hiking or snowshoeing in the Pacific Northwest . After graduation from the University of Washington, Paul worked successfully for 15 years in the computer software industry beginning as one of the original 75 employees of the Aldus Corporation, and then for Adobe Systems, and Microsoft. Paul, wishing to combine his passion for wilderness conservation with his career, focused his attention to non-profit work and currently serves as the Director of Development for Conservation Northwest (www.ConservationNW.org).

His work has appeared in Audubon magazine, Sunset magazine, Pacific Northwest magazine, the National Wildlife Federation Guide to North American Birds, Smithsonian Guide to North American Birds and in many other books, magazines, parks, refuges and other places in North America and Europe .

Paul works full-time as a director for Conservation Northwest, a conservation organization dedicated to protecting and connecting wild areas from the Pacific Coast to the Canadian Rockies. www.PaulBannick.com

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Get ready for another fun and fulfilling BIRDING AND BLUES FESTIVAL at the Oregon coast’s “nature central”, Pacific City.  Mark your calendars for April 9, 10 & 11, 2010.
Once again headquartered at the Kiawanda Community Center on Cape Kiwanda Drive, the festival offers:

Learn secrets about local nature from highly credentialed naturalists and birders.  Meet like-minded nature-lovers as you take field trips at some of our area’s best birding sites.  Purchase intriguing nature-inspired art and merchandise from vendors while sampling refreshments from Local Resturants. In the evenings kick it up and enjoy dancing with some of the Northwest’s best blues performers.

Register for your passes early as tickets go fast. Limited spaces will be available for walk-ins during the events, so pre-registration is strongly recommended!  Phone in, fax in or mail in your registration forms now.

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The 2010 Pacific City
Birding and Blues Festival:

Where rhythms of nature meet rhythms of the blues.

Pacific City has some of Oregon's most spectacular estuaries,  rivers, bays and ocean shores.
 Be introduced to the abundant wildlife in
Oregon's Three-Capes region.
 Learn firsthand the secrets about our coast's fascinating
animals and the special places to see them – up close and personal.
 

  
Then after sunset, relax, feast, tap your feet, dance and celebrate life.
 
  

The Pacific City Birding and Blues Festival is presented by
The Pacific City Birding and Blues Foundation
The Pacific City/Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce

For more on BIRDING check out this website: 
www.geobirds.com