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Bird festivals

The Copper River Shorebird Festival, the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival, the Sandhill Crane Festival and the Alaska Bald Eagle Festival offer superb opportunities to see hundreds of thousands of birds -- and visit interesting towns.

Alaska Bald Eagle Festival (early November Haines)
Alaska Birders Summer Rendezvous (summerlong, based in Bethel and the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge)
Copper River Shorebird Festival (early May in Cordova)
Garnet Festival (late April as the eagles return to the Stikine River near Wrangell)
Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival (early May in Homer)
Sandhill Crane Festival (late August in Fairbanks)



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