303 2nd st.
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(415) 872 - 9585

Grays Harbor Shorebird and Nature Festival

Start planning to attend the next festival: April 25 - 27, 2025

2024 Shorebird and Nature Festival
Festival Registration
Registration is online and will require the use of a credit card to complete.
The registration site may ask for an outside donation for the use of the vendor's services. This donation does not go towards our festival and there is no requirement to make a donation to purchase tickets. You may change the amount they suggest to whatever you may wish to donate. There is a line for donating specifically to Grays Harbor Audubon Society, the local sponsors of the festival.
Registration may change. Plans are still being made.

Keynote Speaker, Rebecca Heisman   

Friday, May 3, 7:30 pm
Hoquiam High School Little Theater
Dessert Reception prior to talk begins at 6:45pm
Tickets may be purchased in advance or at the door

We've all heard amazing facts about bird migration—the long distances that birds travel, the ways that they navigate, etc. But did you ever wonder how we figured all of this out? While working for the American Ornithological Society, Rebecca Heisman became fascinated with the varied and creative techniques that scientists have used to study bird migration, and this eventually became the basis for her book Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. In her talk, she'll share some surprising stories from the history of bird migration research and discuss why understanding migration is so crucial for bird conservation.
Rebecca Heisman is a freelance science writer who lives in Walla Walla, Washington, and has worked with organizations including the Audubon Society, the American Bird Conservancy, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the American Ornithological Society. Flight Paths is her first book.

Dinner Speaker,  Dennis Paulson

Grays Harbor has long been famous for the diversity and abundance of shorebirds (plovers and sandpipers) that it supports, and Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge was established to preserve habitat for them on their long journeys north and south. Dennis Paulson will tell us about these birds in a photo-illustrated lecture, Shorebirds of Grays Harbor.

Saturday, May 4, 5:30 p.m - 9 p.m., Speaker at 7:30 p.m.
Annual Fundraising Dinner and Speaker
      Hoquiam Brewing Company (624 K. St.)
         We are taking over one of the best restaurants in town
              for some bird talk and fun.
         $15 seat reservation (on registration form, see above)
          + cost of your dinner from the menu)
            Their full menu will be available and the food is top notch.
             Check it out https://www.hoquiambrews.com/