BIRDING COMPETITION

The competition starts at 5:00am Saturday, November 10th and ends on Sunday November 11th at 10:00am.

Youth birding teams are encouraged!

The Grand Prize is four Pentax Spotting Scopes! Other prizes include four Pentax Binoculars, four Eagle Optics Youth Binoculars, Space Coast vacation packages, tours from various attractions and much more. Pentax will sponsor both an adult and youth birding team.

You can use the birding competition as an opportunity to raise money for your own environmental cause. Non-competitive birders may choose a county area or simply sit in their own back yard and count birds to receive a Festival Bird Count Certificate. The information collected on bird counts is important because it can be used to track bird populations.

Cost for Competitive Birding Teams is $100 per team. The Festival Committee will assist in locating corporate sponsors for youth teams.

What is it?

This Year

• The Allan & Helen Cruickshank Memorial Award -- Advanced Adults
  Sponsor: Pentax -- Grand Prize: 4 Pentax spotting scopes
• The Johnnie Johnson Memorial Award -- Intermediate Adults
  Sponsor: Eagle Optics
• The Kale-Brown Award -- Beginning Adults
  Sponsor: Bird Watcher's Digest
• The Margaret Hames Award -- Youth 13 - 18
  Sponsor: Leica/Minox
• The Shelle Campbell Proctor Memorial Award -- Youth 12 and under
  Sponsor: Pentax

Competition Awards Ceremony will be held at Sand Point Park on Sunday, November 12 at 2:30pm following the Groundbreaking Cremony for The Great Florida Birding Trail.

Last Year

• Combined, birding teams spotted 190 different bird species.
• The winning team alone spotted 165 bird species.