Thank You for making the 2011 Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival a success!
We are planning next year’s 2012 event and will be open for registration after the first of the year. If you enjoyed the festival, please tell your friends and come back.
Here is a link to the birds seen during the 2011 Festival by each Field Trip.(xls file)
Fire Update
On Saturday, August 20th from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm volunteers like you will plant over 1000 agaves to help protect the endangered lesser long-nosed bat. Would you like to help with agave planting in the affected area?
read details here
2011 Festival Highlights
Tickets for speaking events below can be purchased without the online registration fee.
They are available for purchase at The San Pedro River House, Ramsey Canyon Book Store and We Frame It.
Welcome Reception
Thursday, August 4 at 6:30 pm $25 - On Thursday night Rod Mondt, Special Designations Program Coordinator for the Sky Islands Alliance will give our welcome address. - read more
Keynote Speaker Scott Weidensaul
Saturday, August 6 at 6:00 pm - $35 - Scott Weidensaul will be our Keynote speaker, co-guiding field trips and presenting a free program on birding with hearing loss. The Keynote address will be Living on the Wind: The Miracle of Bird Migration. - read more
Arizona's Longest Running Nature Festival Southwest Wings is an educational celebration of the diversity of birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects, in their unique environment; the sky islands in southern Arizona.
Southwest Wings is held in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Some of the educational highlights of the Birding and Nature Festival will be Mexican Birds, Trogon, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Ornithology, Humming Birds, Bats, Bugs, Snakes, and Owls. It takes place in the spectacular high desert environment of Cochise County, home to the Huachuca Mountains and the San Pedro River.
