{"id":23763,"date":"2017-01-08T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T00:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2017-01-08T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T00:24:02","slug":"birding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/birding\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Festivals and Events 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/snog3.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California is a tourist destination welcoming millions of migrating birds each year. The hospitality mat has shrunk\u00a0with large swaths of lakes and land developed for human\u00a0purposes. Get up to speed about\u00a0birds this year by visiting a bird festival or event. Find out the names of birds visiting your area, how far they fly during their trips\u00a0and why local resources are so vital to their health. Although birds don&#8217;t pay bed taxes for spending the night, savvy marketers\u00a0have turned bird migrations into sources of revenue through\u00a0lodgings &amp; accommodations\u00a0for human guests!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-birding-festivals.html\">California Bird Festivals &amp; Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival January 13-16, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Yolo Basin Tours 2nd Saturday through April 2017<\/li>\n<li>Chico\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/chico-snowgoose-festival.html\">Snowgoose Festival<\/a> January 25-29 (pictured)<\/li>\n<li>Galt Winter Bird Festival\u00a0 January 21<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival February 10-12<\/li>\n<li>Backyard Bird Count February 17-20<\/li>\n<li>San Diego Bird Festival February 23-26<\/li>\n<li>California Duck Days February 24-25<\/li>\n<li>Later in 2017: Gotwit Days,\u00a0Point Reyes Station Birding &amp; Nature Festival, Owens\u00a0Lake Bird Festival, Tahoe Bird Festival, Mono Basin Bird Chautauqua, San Francisco Bay Osprey Day, Lake Almanor Grebe Festival, Kern River Valley Turkey Vulture Festival, Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival and California Swan Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is a tourist destination welcoming millions of migrating birds each year. The hospitality mat has shrunk\u00a0with large swaths of lakes and land developed for human\u00a0purposes. Get up to speed about\u00a0birds this year by visiting a bird festival or event. Find out the names of birds visiting your area, how far they fly during their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}