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Fourth Annual Come join us for the Fourth Annual Monterey Bay Birding Festival! Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced birder, a local resident or visiting from afar, you’ll discover new places and new birds, and have the opportunity to revisit favorite spots in the Pajaro Valley, heart of the Monterey Bay’s world-renown birding area, and along the spectacular Central Coast of California. The Birding Festival has something for everyone, especially beginning birders. Our individual trip leaders are skilled, knowledgeable in finding birds and are very interesting in helping you see them and learn more about them. In fact, we think so highly of our leaders that we consider them the second most important reason you should join us. The first reason, of course, is the birds themselves. The Pajaro Valley and the Monterey Bay region are home to an incredible diversity of habitats -- wetlands, sloughs, beaches, ocean, rivers and forest -- and bird species. Over 600 species of birds have been found in California, and the vast majority of these species can be seen in our area. Fall is perhaps the best time in the Pajaro Valley area to enjoy this diversity. Shorebirds are still arriving and some will stay for the winter. Offshore, seabirds are converging and land birds are at the peak of their southward migration. This annual movement of birds supplements our resident population and creates the wonderful diversity in avifauna in our own backyard. More than 70 activities are planned, highlighted with a number of beginner’s field trips. They will be workshops, vendors and featured speakers at beautiful Pajaro Dunes, headquarters for this year’s festival. In conjunction with the festival, the City of Watsonville’s Wetlands of Watsonville Nature Center at Ramsay Park invites you and your children to the free, bilingual Family Days on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 pm. Don’t hesitate to register. Don’t miss the opportunity to see some of the world’s most spectacular habitats and diversity of species in the Pajaro Valley and the Monterey Bay region.
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