A celebration of birds and wildlife.

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Click on topic for details. Registration Form The Space Coast's Best Known Birding and Wildlife Sites -- WITH MAP Would you like to be a sponsor? Would you like to know what the prizes are? Over $10,000.00 in prizes - and growing! Check out the GRAND PRIZE! Prizes, Categories, Contest Rules & Ethics If you would like to volunteer to help with this Festival, please call the Chamber: (407) 267-3036.

Calendar of Events
Friday, November 14, 1997 Birds of a Feather Social 7:00pm until 10:00pm -- Sand Point Park Pavilion
BIRDING COMPETITION This will be a fun filled opportunity for contestants and their families to register for the contest, meet old friends, make new ones, join/form teams and car pools, and plan strategies. Live music. There will be local seafood, soft drinks, beer and snack food available FREE for registered participants [max of 2 free drinks]. Local birders and Wildlife officials will be there to answer questions and share their experience. Events of the weekend will be explained. Rules for the birding competition will be reviewed. Sponsors will be recognized. Registration fee is $50.00 per birding team (3 or 4 people). "Unattached" individuals will be helped to form teams.	FAMILY ACTIVITIES This will be a fun filled opportunity for contestants and their families to meet old friends, make new ones. Live music. There will be local seafood, soft drinks, beer and snack food available for a nominal fee. Local birders and Wildlife officials will be there to answer questions and share their experience. Events of the weekend will be explained. Sponsors will be recognized.
Saturday, November 15, 1997
BIRDING COMPETITION 5:00am until evening Teams of three or four each will compete to count the most number of bird species. Competition area is the 1,557 square miles of Brevard County. Team tally sheets will be turned in no later than 11:00am Sunday.	FAMILY ACTIVITIES FREE to the public Birding seminars and informative talks about local wildlife offered at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Information Center (these events start here): 9:00-11:00 -- Beginning Birding Talk 9:30 -- Habitat Walk (30 min.) 10:00 - 11:30 -- Guided Black Point Wildlife Drive Tour 11:30 -- Sea Turtle Talk (45 min.) 1:00-3:00 -- Birding Field Trip (beg. & int.) 1:00 -- Habitat Walk (30 min.) 2:00 - 3:30 -- Guided Black Point Wildlife Drive Tour 3:00-5:00 -- Intermediate Birding Talk 4:00 - 5:30 -- Guided Black Point Wildlife Drive Tour 9:00- 5:00 -- Guided Manatee Watch at Observation Deck on NE side of Haulover Canal on SR 3. Walk on your own on the beach at Canaveral National Seashore. Your whole family may enjoy participating in the Family Fun Festival - VI at the Enchanted Forest Nature Sanctuary 8:30am - 4:30pm Live animal exhibits Guided tours through the forest led by experts in a variety of fields Children's crafts and walks Booths of many local nature and environmental organizations T-shirts, crafts, books, food and drinks for sale. Kayaking Tours from Dummit Cove 9:am-3:pm - every odd hour on the hour $5.00 each - Profits contributed to Merritt Island Wildlife Association.
Sunday, November 16
BIRDING COMPETITION Competition continues until 10:00am All team check lists must be turned in no later than 11:00am.	FAMILY ACTIVITIES Local church services Places to Go and Things to Do
Awards and Recognition Ceremony 2:00pm until 3:00pm -- Brevard Community College - Titusville Campus Prizes will be awarded to all winning teams in each category. All sponsors will be recognized and appreciated.
It should be noted that the 1997 Space Coast Flyway Festival is a "warm-up" event for what we plan to be a MAJOR ANNUAL FESTIVAL. We plan to start off small this year as we "get our feet wet."

BACKGROUND

Registration

• Registration Fee for each birding team (3 or 4) is $50.00 - Includes the Birds of a Feather Social.
• Registration will be accepted by mail or in person at the Titusville Area Chamber of Commerce (TACC): 407/267-3036.
• In order to receive your competition information packet and schedule of events prior to the competition, please have your registration, including payment, postmarked no later than November 3, 1997.
• Late registrations (after Nov. 3) can be processed in person at the TACC or at the Birds of a Feather Social on Friday evening.
• Late arrival information packets for pre-registered participants may be picked up at the Best Western Space Shuttle Inn (I-95, Exit 79, Hwy 50 East).
• Registration Form

Birding Sites:

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Canaveral National Seashore Canaveral Marshes Conservation Area Port Canaveral

Jetty Park Turkey Creek Sanctuary Sebastian Inlet State Recreation Area Many, many more! Descriptions

Species of Special Interest Include:

Florida scrub jay red-cockaded woodpecker roseate spoonbill snail kite	Audubon's crested caracara burrowing owl reddish egret
many different species of shorebirds, waterfowl, wading birds and raptors

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