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Join us for our Birding on the Madaket boat tours this summer on Humboldt Bay.
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Next year’s festival dates are April 16-19, 2026.
Welcome to Godwit Days!
Arcata, CA
Come celebrate the Marbled Godwit and explore the lush Redwood Coast. Observe many bird species and other wildlife through our selection of field trips, lectures, and workshops led by experienced local guides during our annual festival each April. Tour the expansive mudflats, the wild river valleys and the rocky ocean coast of this sector of the Klamath bioregion in northwest California.
Upcoming Special Events:
2025 Birding on the Madaket Boat Tours – August 24 & September 21
2025 Student Bird Art & Writing Contests
2025 Student Bird Art Contest Booklet
2025 RRAS Writing Contest Booklet
Godwit Days MERCHANDISE!
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2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Friday, April 18, 2025 @ 6:30 p.m., Keynote with Michael Kauffmann
The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History with Michael Kauffmann
Take a journey through the biotic and abiotic wonders that define the Klamath Mountains as one of the most unique mountain ranges in North America. Ecologist and author Michael Kauffmann will take us across the range based on his book The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History. He will share a variety of inimitable stories about the Klamath Mountains including climate, geology, water, fire, plants, and animals (birds!) — all of which, when taken together, define one of the most biodiverse temperate mountain ranges on Earth.
Michael Kauffmann is an educator, ecologist, and author in Humboldt County where he lives with his wife and two boys. He works as an ecologist mapping vegetation communities across the Klamath Mountains. He also is the author of Conifer County and Conifers of the Pacific Slope and co-author of Field Guide to Manzanitas, California Desert Plants, and The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History.
Saturday, April 19, 2025 @ 7 p.m., Keynote with Rosemary Mosco
Connecting Through Comics: How Humor and Art Make Birding Better
Join cartoonist and author Rosemary Mosco for a funny, thought-provoking talk about a life spent making bird cartoons. Discover hidden, hilarious secrets of familiar birds, laugh at the quirks of ornithological terminology, and leave with a new perspective on birding.
Rosemary Mosco is an author, illustrator, and speaker whose work connects people with the natural world. She has written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, the PBS show Elinor Wonders Why, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, Ranger Rick, and more, and makes a regular comic strip in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine. She creates acclaimed science books for kids and adults and the nature comic Bird and Moon, which won the National Cartoonists Society’s award for Best Online Short Form Comic and was the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit. Her climate change comics were exhibited at AAAS headquarters and the Peabody Essex Museum. She gives engaging talks and workshops to groups of all ages.
Rosemary holds a Masters of Science from the Field Naturalist Program. She also served as a judge for a Festival of Bad Ad-hoc Hypotheses, judged a bird tattoo contest, and co-founded a week celebrating invertebrate butts.
