We'll see you all on February 15-18th 2002. Stay tuned to this website for upcoming program changes. The festival also features workshops , family and youth activities , and a large Exhibition Hall which includes educational displays, and demonstrations about wetlands and wildlife, artworks for display, and many other special events. The festival includes a duck calling demonstrations, bird dog demonstration, wetland conservation workshops , and many children's activities. The event coincides with the Valley's peak migration period of hundreds of thousands of birds traveling down the Pacific Flyway.
Field trips offer outstanding birding opportunities throughout the Central Valley.
The festival showcases the wonders and diversity of Sacramento Valley wetlands, and serves to increase public awareness and to promote education about the importance of wetlands and wildlife. A weeklong artwork show at nearby Davis Art Center will feature wildlife-related art done by Davis, Winters, and Woodland high school art students. The students produced amazing and inspirational artworks about waterfowl and wetlands in the first show and we expect equally impressive works at the 2001 art event. Also, there will be other children s art displays, art projects and demonstrations. Field trips will feature outstanding wildlife viewing opportunities, from waterfowl, shorebirds, hawks and threatened sandhill cranes to tule elk, pelicans, and songbirds.