Festival

Delta Marsh Birding Festival

What is the Delta Marsh Birding Festival?

A birding festival is:

1. An occasion for celebrating the wonders of birds.
2. A joyous gathering of people who watch birds.
3. An opportunity to help local business through birding tourism.
4. A clever and effective way to promote bird and habitat conservation.

The 6^th Annual Delta Marsh Birding Festival will showcase the world famous Delta Marsh. This site was designated as an “Important Bird Area” (IBA) by Bird Studies Canada in 1999. The dates for the festival coincide with the predicted height of the warbler migration.

Highlights of the event are:

Daily guided birding tours at Delta Marsh
Self-guided bird destination spots near marsh
Banquet with guest speaker
Fish fry with guest speaker:
- Alex Miller, University of Manitoba, on Piping Plovers
Workshops including:
- First Aid for Birds
- Birding by Ear
- Watching Birds from your Kitchen Window
Bird interpretive activities for the general public
Birding program and Delta Marsh bird checklist

Festival Organizers:

Heidi den Haan
Delta Marsh Field Station (University of Manitoba)

Bob Jones
Portage Natural History Group

Calvin Cuthbert
Ducks Unlimited Canada

Gordon Ogilvie
Woodlot Association of Manitoba

Al Mickey
The ARR Group

Ryan Porteous
The ARR Group

Ron Austin
The ARR Group

A great way to enjoy bird watching is by going to Birding Festivals and Events. There you will find experts and bird lovers who will share different experiences and you will make friends who share your hobby with. These are the most visited birding festivals. Here you have a list of Birding and Wildlife Festival and Events by location and date.

22nd Annual Sandhill Crane Festival
Yellow Rails and Rice Festival
Florida Birding and Nature Festival
Bird Fest of the Santa Monica Mountains
Fall Migration Celebration and of course Delta Marsh Birding Festival.

Assuming you are keen on birds and you want to start breeding some, but your list of potential birds includes only colorful parrots that are talking, Delta Marsh Bird Observatory will help you to expand your horizons and decide what kind of birds you should buy. Make sure you know a good breeder and veterinarian to help you with any problems you might have. Here you have a list of suggestions about Breeding Birds for Beginners and you can choose one, which is perfect for pet bird breeding.
– Canaries
– Finches
– Cockatiels
– Poicephalus Parrots and Parrotlets
– Peach-Faced Lovebirds

Not all birds migrate. A few, never move more than a kilometer from where they were born. These types of birds are called sedentary birds. Migration, first of all is a way of surviving and optimizing the living conditions by moving to areas which are warmer and have more food. There are many different types of migration and there are different types of birds migrating every single day. The most common migrations are Seasonal, Latitudinal, Longitudinal, Altitudinal, Nomadic and many others.

If you would like to start breeding birds for profit, you need to be aware that it can be a long process and it takes time, because there are bird spices that breed only once a year. If you have decided to breed a few pairs of birds you will only need a small breeding bird cage, but if you have decided seriously to deal with this job, you will should build an aviary outside of your home. When talking about pet bird breeding, you should familiarize the term cross breeding birds which means bird hybrid that has two different species as parents.