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Join

Rookery Bay Research Reserve for

The Festival of Birds

January 1 – 31, 2022

he 18th Annual Festival of Birds is a hybrid event, so anyone
interested in birds from anywhere in the country can join Rookery
TBay Research Reserve and partners in January for an entire month l Field Trips
devoted to birds. Participants can enjoy virtual presentations, in person birding field trips
l Activities
and other activities both online and on-site at the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning
Center.
A Festival Pass is required to attend. It gives access to more than 24 guided field trips l Virtual Expert Presentations
at birding hotspots in the area, nine virtual expert lectures and a keynote presentation. It
includes free admission to the Environmental Learning Center all month long as well! Presentations Include:
Festival goers also receive 15% off guided boat and kayak ecotours from Rookery Bay’s • Birding Coast to Coast
exclusive ecotour partner, Rising Tide Explorers throughout the month of January! • Brown Pelicans
Types of Field Trips to choose from: • Bird Tracking and Banding
Boardwalk Tours Kayak Trips • Burrowing Owls of Washington State
Sunset Cruises Swamp Buggy Rides • Bird Rooftop Nesting Program
Birding Walks Car Caravans • Climate Solutions for Birds
Rookery Bay Celebrates Completion of Ten Thousand Islands Research Facility and • The Battle of Burrowing Owls & Gopher
Dormitory Tortoises in Southwest Florida
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research recently celebrated the completion of the • The Race to Save Seabirds Around the Globe
new Ten Thousand Islands Research Facility and Dormitory on Goodland Bay in Marco • Red Knot Migration and Monitoring
Island with a ribbon cutting and reception. • Feeders and Birdbaths:
The facility is the only one of its kind in Collier County. It includes a boat dock, Learning About Bird Behavior
dormitory and space for scientific research - all with easy access to the remote Ten
Thousand Islands. The location enables reserve staff, interns and partnering scientists to Register Now Scan this QR Code
conduct research within the otherwise difficult to access eastern section of the 110,000-acre RookeryBay.org/ with your phone
reserve that borders the Everglades. events/ to learn more!
At the ribbon cutting event, attendees met reserve staff to learn about the scientific
festival-of-birds
studies currently occurring at Rookery Bay including sea turtle nest conservation, juvenile
shark research and shorebird monitoring. For More Information
The eight-person dormitory offers convenient lodging for visiting scientists who come
Call
from all over the world to work in this remote section of the reserve. The dormitory gives
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student interns an immersive learning experience near their area of study. Student interns
are already scheduled to use the facility in the coming summer to assist with sea turtle nest
monitoring and avian research on distant barrier island beaches.

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