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10th Annual Birding & Blues Festival - April 12, 13 & 14, 2013
Come Celebrate Nature with Your Head, Heart and Soul
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Registration Form • Complete 2013 Program
Complete Schedule of Events • Schedule - Calendar Format
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Just Added!
Virtually Birding the Tillamook County Water Trail - A National Recreation Trail
The Tillamook County Water Trail encompasses all five estuaries and their watersheds within Tillamook County providing over 250 miles of
paddling opportunity.
Imagine the birds you'd see! Designated a National Recreation Trail in 2012 this is your
opportunity to sit back and
enjoy this natural resource from the comfort of
your own, dry, seat.
Join the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership
and see the birds of the
waterways
of Tillamook County from the perspective of being on the
water in a non-motorized craft. Beginners welcome!!!
This slide show presentation will be held at Kiawanda Community Center on Saturday, April 13, from 9:15am to 9:45am.
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2013 Featured Speakers have been announced:
Paul Baicich will present "Birds In Our Culture"
Paul has been an active birder since his early teens in New York City. A former employee of the American Birding Association,
he edited 14 of their "ABA Birdfinding Guides," edited Birding, ABA's bi-monthly magazine, and served as ABA's Director of
Conservation and Public Policy. Paul has co-led a number of birding tours and workshops to Alaska including the Aleutians, the
Pribilofs, the Seward Peninsula, and St. Lawrence Island. Among his many other activities, he has worked for the National
wildlife Refuge System on a consultant basis on issues of popular birding and parallel refuge receptiveness. In addition, Paul
co-edits the popular monthly Birding Community E-bulletin. Visit Paul Baicich's website.
Sharon Beals will present "Stick and Twigs, Spiderwebs and Moss: Bird's Nests as Messengers" Falconry Demonstration
Noah Strycker will present "Among Penguins"
Noah has been to the end of the world and back. He went to Antarctica in 2008 for three months to study a quarter million
Adelie Penguins. His work there was part of a long-term penguin research project funded by the National Science Foundation.
Noah grew up in rural Oregon near Cresswell, where he caught the birding bug in the 5th grade. He became something of a
birding prodigy, being recognized by the American Birding Association with their "Young Birder of the Year" award. Four years
ago, he graduated magna cum laude from Oregon State University. Noah has published numerous articles and photographs about
birds in all major birding magazines, has contributed to journals and books, and is the associate editor of "Birding" magazine.
Visit Noah Strycker's website.
A self-proclaimed 'urban naturalist', Sharon Beals was raised in Seattle and now calls San Francisco her home. An ardent environmentalist,
Sharon uses photography as both an art form and a way to chronicle what moves her heart and concerns her conscience from habitat
restoration and plastic in the ocean, to the ecology of rivers, and of course, birds' nests. Her photographs have appeared in Audubon
Magazine and Scientific American, and American Photo named Sharon's book "Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them" one of
the best nature books in 2011. Visit Sharon Beals' website.
Michelle Burke of the Oregon Falconers Association will showecase the difference between native falcon and hawk species,
and how there are Old World counterparts to New World raptor species. She will also
discuss how the falconry community
has been instrumental in bringing back the wild peregrine population,
how individuals can help keep raptor populations healthy
by reducing hazards, and of course discuss the
very unique relationship between falconer and raptor that defines the art and
sport of falconry. She may
also touch upon how raptors have gone from vilified pests to valuable assets to natural pest control.
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Three Capes Scenic Tour returns in 2013!
Enjoy an all-day guided trip along the Three Capes Scenic Loop from Pacific City to Cape Meares.
Your guides are expert birder John Rakestraw and US Fish & Wildlife refuge specialist Dawn Grafe.
This intimate guided tour will be unlike any other!
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We're excited to announce the 2013 musical lineup:
Friday the Norman Sylvester Band will perform
Saturday plan to be entertained by the Duffy Bishop Band
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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 12, 13 & 14, 2013.
Once again headquartered at the Kiawanda Community Center on Cape Kiwanda Drive, the festival offers:
- Guided Field Trips
- Indoor Seminars and workshops
- Great Regional Blues Bands
- Birding Tours
- Raffle
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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.
In the evenings kick it up and enjoy dancing with some of the Northwest’s best blues performers.
so pre-registration is strongly recommended! Phone in, fax in or mail in your registration forms now.
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The Pacific City
Birding and Blues Festival:
Where rhythms of nature meet rhythms of the blues.
Nature Lovers Know
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.
Proceeds from this annual event will be used to produce
wildlife viewing literature, maps, trails, naturalist
education and signage in South Tillamook County.
Check out the two wildlife panels erected on our Cape Kiwanda kiosk near the Pelican Pub & Brewery!
(A gift to the community from the Birding and Blues Foundation, the Tillamook PUD, and with the cooperation of
the Pacific City/Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce.)
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 information email info@birdingandblues.com or call 503-965-6247.
For more information on Pacific City Oregon
www.pacificcity.com
www.geobirds.com