Each fall and winter, thousands of Sandhill Cranes migrate along the Pacific Flyway and make a seasonal stop in California’s Central Valley—especially around Lodi. These elegant birds are known for their distinctive calls, graceful courtship dances, and easily recognizable features.
Join Native Bird Connections for an intimate look at the behaviors, life experiences, and personal stories of several birds of prey. See hawks and owls up close and learn their unique stories. This presentation repeats on Saturday at 1:40 PM.
Welcome back Denis and James Kurata, who will perform this ancient form of Japanese music that has been a Festival highlight for 25 years.
Photographer Michael Forsberg will take you on a wild, wonderful, and sometimes heartbreaking journey of Whooping Cranes from their wintering grounds along the Texas Gulf Coast to their remote nesting grounds in northern Canada.
Join Native Bird Connections for an intimate look at the behaviors, life experiences, and personal stories of several birds of prey. See hawks and owls up close and learn their unique stories. This presentation is also at 10 AM on Saturday.
Join this fascinating presentation about barn owl research in Lodi area vineyards, from monitoring breeding activity at nest boxes to tracking where owls hunt across the landscape. Barn owls are one of the original natural pest controls!
Join Angela Laws with The Xerces Society to learn more about protecting the western monarch butterfly in California.
Gabe Kerschner with Wild Things! returns with some of their special animals for this fun and educational program. In past years he has shared a mountain lion, brown bear, raccoon, Golden Eagle, Barn Owl, rattlesnake, and other rescued animals that could not be returned to the wild.
Learn more about the California version of a great migration and the habitats that support this awesome, and very reliable, natural phenomenon.
Join USFWS Wildlife Biologist Marsha Barnes for a presentation of nesting Greater Sandhill Cranes at Modoc National Wildlife Refuge in northeast California.
