Birding Festivals in the Adirondacks:
2014 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration
6-8 June 2014
2015 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration
5 June - 7 June 2015
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The 12th annual Great Adirondack Birding Celebration -- the longest running boreal birding festival in the Northeast -- will be held 6-8 June 2014 at the Paul Smith's College Visitor Interpretive Center (VIC) in Paul Smiths, New York. The festival will feature field trips to boreal birding hot spots, informative lectures, workshops, a raffle, social hours and more. More about Events and Activities at the 2014 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration
The keynote speaker is Noah Strycker, Associate Editor of Birding magazine. His topic is “Bird World,” an exploration of the parallels between bird and human behavior. Approaching bird behavior from new and surprising angles, Strycker explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, self-image in magpies, life-long loves of albatrosses, particle physics of starling flocks, and other mysteries—revealing why birds do what they do, and how we can relate. More about Keynote Speaker Noah Strycker
Some of the boreal species that participants in the birding festival hope to find include the Black-backed Woodpecker, American Three-toed Woodpecker, Boreal Chickadee, Spruce Grouse, Bicknell's Thrush and a variety of migrating warblers.
The 3,000-acre Paul Smiths VIC is an eBird Birding Hotspot. It contains every habitat type found in the Adirondack Park with the exception of alpine vegetation. Included on the property is a 60-acre marsh, five ponds, several brooks and swamps, bogs, fens, and varied forest types, most notably northern boreal forest. The site includes significant glacial and geological features and provides scenic vistas of Saint Regis Mountain and Jenkins Mountain. The VIC property includes over 25 miles of trails, including 6 miles of interpretive trails, for spring, summer, and fall use. An interactive Trail Map is available here.
Information on the 2013 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration
Trip reports from selected field trips during previous Great Adirondack Birding Celebrations are available here:
- Intervale Lowlands Bird Walk (2 June 2013)
- Beginner Birder Workshop (1 June 2013)
- Beginner Bird Walk (2 June 2012)
- Intervale Lowlands Bird Walk (3 June 2012)
- Madawaska Flow Bird Walk (3 June 2012)
- Wetland Walk (3 June 2011)