Registrationis openfor Rookery Bay Research Reserve’s 21st annual Festival of Birds. This year’s festival kicks off on January 16 with a keynote presentation and reception by world-renowned wildlife biologist, ornithologist and host of WGCU’s "With the Wild Things” radio broadcast Dr. Jerry Jackson, Professor Emeritus at Florida Gulf Coast University.
The festival runs January16 - 20 and features over a dozen eco-tour field trips such as birding walks, bike rides, a swamp walk, a swamp buggy tour, and boat cruises at sunrise and sunset to watch hundreds of birds fly in and out of roosting islands.
Field trip locations include Bunche Beach Preserve, Clam Pass Park, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Donna Fiala Eagle Lakes Community Park, Rookery Bay Research Reserve, FL Panther Refuge, Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, CREW Land & Water Trust, Six Mile Cypress Slough Refuge and Tigertail Beach.
Together with WGCU Public Media, Rookery Bay is celebrating Dr. Jerry Jackson’s 25-year anniversary broadcasting “With the Wild Things” a one-minute look at a particular environmental theme on WGCU public radio. Every weekday morning at 7:19 am, Dr. Jackson takes listeners to Southwest Florida’s beaches, swamps and preserves to learn about “the wild things.”
Dr. Jackson’s keynote presentation and reception is from 5:00to 8:00 PMon Thursday, January 16 at the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center, 300 Tower Road, Naples.
Preregistration is required for Dr. Jackson’s keynote address, the reception,and field trips at rookerybay.org or by calling 239-530-5972.
Field trips start at $10. All tickets include admission to the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center during regular hours from January16 - 18.
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