Program – Birding and Nature Festival
We are very excited to welcome everyone to the first Birding and Nature Festival – Costa Rica.
Take a look at the next three full days of activities: DAY 1 - Friday August 31st 16:00 – Nature walk 18:00 – “Dining with Owls” 19:00 – Night walk at Las Brisas Reserve with Ernesto M. Carman and Donald Jiménez Chávez. Overnight at Maquengue Falls Hotel.
DAY 2 – Saturday September 1st 05:15 – Birding with coffee. 08:30 – Breakfast at Maquengue Falls Hotel. 09:00 – Keynote: “Birds and floral diversity: before and after” by Julio E. Sánchez. 10:00 – Nature walk at Las Brisas Reserve led by Julio E. Sánchez. 12:00 – Lunch at Maquengue Falls Hotel. 13:15 – Keynote “Herpetofauna of the central Caribbean region of Costa Rica,” by Brian Kubicki. 14:30 – Nature walk. 17:00 – Lecture “Coordination for the IV Cerulean Warbler Count, and results from 2011″ by Ernesto M. Carman and Juan Diego Vargas. 18:00 – Dinner at Maquengue Falls Hotel. 19:30 – Night walk at Las Brisas Reserve led by Brian Kubicki. Overnight at Maquengue Falls Hotel.
DAY 3 – Sunday September 2nd 05:00-07:00 – Breakfast at Maquengue Falls Hotel and departure in groups for the IV Cerulean Warbler Count. 07:30 – Count / Bio-documentation of the Cerulean Warbler and other migratory birds in Las Brisas Reserve 13:00 – Lunch at Hotel Maquengue. 14:00 – Raffle prizes among participants. For more details about the festival visit the website: http://www.fancr.org.
