How to organize a birding or nature festival–
a step-by-step manual
 The American Birding Association is pleased to distribute as a downloadable PDF file the "How to organize a birding or nature festival" guide, as part of its support for birding festivals and part of its "birding economics" efforts.
This short, 32-page guide was prepared by Nancy Millar, director of the McAllen, Texas, Visitors and Convention Bureau. Many festivals throughout North America have used previous versions of this guide, customizing as they went, to host successful festivals.
For ABA, birding festivals have a conservation impact because they help create and sustain a local constituency committed to the preservation of bird-related resources. As Nancy Millar herself says, "Anyone who knew the Rio Grande Valley a dozen years ago and knows it today can attest to the vast difference of the awareness in the area of the value of birds, land, and other natural resources." The festivals in The Valley have been central to the shift in awareness.
Two versions of the "How to organize a birding or nature festival" manual are available for downloading:
You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to read, save, or print the PDF file. To download the PDF to a local hard disk, you can right-click on the appropriate link and select 'Save Target As' (Internet Explorer) or 'Save Link As' (Netscape Navigator).
The ABA intends to have available a larger and more detailed festival manual available soon, by the end of this year. In the meantime, this latest version of the short festival guide is an excellent instructional piece designed to help organizers of birding and nature festivals everywhere.
Note: The ABA welcomes links to this page – the cover image may be downloaded for the purpose of linking to this page. The PDFs should not be downloaded for re-distribution on other websites.
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