MORRO BAY WINTER
BIRD FESTIVAL
Every
January on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
weekend, the Morro
Coast Audubon Society in collaboration with
California State Parks, Central Coast Natural
History Association, the city of Morro Bay,
the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce, and Friends
of the Estuary, host the Winter Bird Festival.
All-day and half-day tours will take
participants to a wide variety of habitats,
including deep water pelagic, oak woodland and
riparian, wetland and estuary, and the unique
grassland habitat of the Carrizo Plain.
Workshops will cover a vast array of topics
ranging from beginner birding classes to gull
identification. Outstanding Evening Speakers
will make presentations on Saturday and
Sunday. A variety of vendors will be present
with nature related artwork, books, field
equipment and attire, and local merchant
wares.
Morro Bay California is one of the few
remaining estuaries on the Pacific flyway.
Christmas Bird Counts on the bay have numbered
above the 200 species mark, and the festival
bird lists have totaled over 220 species for
the weekend, making this area on the central
California coast a prime birding destination.
For more information please visit the Morro
Bay Bird Festival
website!
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