August 1-6, 2006 - Southwest Wings. Arizona's longest running birding festival celebrates its 15th year in Bisbee. Natural history tours, birds and butterfly tours, exhibits and programs.

August 18-20, 2006 - Sandhill Crane Festival, Fairbanks, Alaska. The festival includes talks, bird watching, nature walks, workshops and many other related activities with ample opportunities for observing Cranes and other fall migrants.

August 18-20, 2006 - The 2006 British Birdfair in Egleton Nature Reserve, Rutland Water, Oakham, Rutland, Britain. They describe this as "the world's first and largest international birdwatching event".  See the website for details.

August 19,2006 - Hummingbird Celebration, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. See hummingbirds up close while they are banded, learn how to attract them to your home, and have fun at the great family activities.

September 8-10, 2006 - Oregon Shorebirds Festival, Charleston, Oregon. Experience firsthand the wonder of shorebird migration on the scenic south coast. Land-based and pelagic field trips, evening presentations and a keynote speaker are some of the activities at this more intimate festival.

September 14, 2006 - Big Bend Nature Festival, Study Butte, Texas. Experience tours on birds, butterflies, reptiles, geology, plants, history, and archeology, tour an abandoned mercury mine, and star watch under the desert black sky.

September 16-17, 2006 - New Jersey Meadowlands Festival of Birding, Lyndhurst, New Jersey. Field trips, birding by boat, indoor workshops, and a keynote speech by Jim Fitzpatrick on the search for the Ivory-billed woodpecker. Great marsh birding - herons, egrets, migrant shorebirds and songbirds.

September 22-24, 2006 - Monterey Bay Birding Festival, Watsonville, California. Guided walks, field trips, special presentations. This area is world-renowned for birding, and the festival includes walks through the Pajaro Valley, a major stopover on the Pacific flyway and wintering grounds for western birds.

September 23, 2006 - Lighthouse Point Park Migration Festival, New Haven, Connecticut. A celebration of birds, butterflies and dragonflies at one of the Northeast's best hawk watch locations. Activities include hawk watches, bird identification workshops, butterfly and dragonfly walks, lighthouse tours, carousel rides, a live raptor show, and more.

September 30-October 1, 2006 - Kern Valley Turkey Vulture Festival, Weldon, California. Experience one of the North American's largest know turkey vulture migrations, enjoying birds, vultures, geology, botany, natural history, Native American studies, moths, reptiles, children's activities and more.

October 8-14, 2006 - "Ding" Darling Days, Sanibel Island, Florida. "Ding" Darling Days, held at the J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida, is a week long festival coinciding with National Wildlife Refuge Week. The week is highlighted by special programs and lectures including a children's fishing event, lecture by nature sounds maestro, Lang Elliot, and programs about wildlife rehabilitation, Avian bird flu, binocular use and equipment, and much more. "Ding" Darling Days will culminate in a Saturday Family Fun Day where there will be information booths provided by local and regional conservation organizations, children's crafts and activities, free hot dogs, a butterfly house, and lectures including a live eagle presentation and a live snake demonstration.

October 13-15, 2006 - Georgia's Colonial Coast Birding & Nature Festival, Jekyll Island, Georgia. Children's programs, live raptor shows, exhibitors including artists, photographers, conservation organizations and optics companies, along with seminars and field trips highlighting the natural environment of coastal Georgia.

October 13-15, 2006 - Cranfest XII, Bellevue, Michigan. The twelth annual Crane and Art Festival is being held at Baker Sanctuary, a fall staging area for greater sandhill cranes, with programs, activities, workshops and a fund-raising dinner.

October 27-29, 2006 - Grand Marais Autumn Birding Festival, Minnesota. Seminars, field trips. Fall weather patterns combined with Lake Superior's immense size funnel migrating birds along the North Shore of Lake Superior. The festival capitalizes on this unique reality, offering participants a mixture of field trips, workshops and evening programs that highlight the region's rich ecological features and diverse habitats.

November 4, 2006 - Shenandoah Audubon's 5th Annual Birding Festival, Winchester, Virginia. Presentations on birds of prey, a course on basic birding, bird walks, and activities for the whole family.

November 5-11, 2006 - Hula Valley Bird Festival, Israel. During the peak birding season in the Hula Valley, when the migration season is at its height and the wintering species have already arrive, find many activities: lectures, guided tours and identification works given by top international experts. 500 million birds within 500 km.

November 7-12, 2006 - Wings Over Water, Outer Banks, North Carolina. Offering over 100 birding, paddling and natural history excursions, you'll find something for everyone.

November 8-12, 2006 - Alaska Bald Eagle Festival, Haines, Alaska. Join a festival full of events on birding, photography and nature celebrating the annual gathering of around 3,000 bald eagles on the Chilkat River near Haines.

November 14-19, 2006 - Festival of the Cranes in Socorro, New Mexico. Over 100 events, opportunities to see large numbers of birds up close.

January 12-15, 2007 - Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, Morro Bay, California. Offering a wide variety of events for all interests, including over 35 land, ocean and bay field trips, plus discussions, presentations, social events and workshops focusing on everything from warblers to elephant seals.

January 24-28, 2007 - The 10th Annual Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival, Titusville,  Florida. See alligators, bats, birds, butterflies, dolphins, manatees, sea turtles, snakes and wildflowers, with tours, field trips, paddling adventures, boat trips, seminars, workshops and presentations.

February 7-12, 2007 - San Diego Audubon Bird Festival, San Diego, California. Overnight and day trips to Mexico, pelagic, birding by kayak, Anzo Borrego Desert, oak woodlands, bay and seashore habitats. Workshops include birding by ear, raptor, shorebird and butterfly identification, digiscoping, optics, photography