Welcome to the 2026 Winter Bird Festival! We are thrilled to feature renowned birder Aaron Haiman as our keynote speaker.

  Aaron N.K. Haiman volunteered from a young age with bird research organizations before receiving a BS in Environmental Science from UC Berkeley as well as MS degrees in Avian Science and Animal Behavior from UC Davis. Aaron guides bird walks, mentors high school students in ecology and sustainability, leads a youth bird-a-thon team, and gives presentations on birds and habitat restoration. He works for the State of California and lives in West Sacramento.

Visit his website:  Aaron N.K. Haiman | Heyday

 

WINTER BIRDS OF THE SAC/SAN JOAQUIN DELTA -     

KEYNOTE SPEAKER PRESENTATION AT 12PM 

 

Aaron's talk will focus on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as a place of connections and complexities. This is a place where rivers meet one another, where freshwater meets salt water, where fish link inland forests with the open ocean, where birds from the north come for the winter, and where birds from the south come to breed. The Delta is also a place of intricacies. How water interacts with land and forms soil is a complex process. How birds use water and land contain a nest of complex pressures. All these connections and complexities play out on a daily basis throughout the Delta.

 

 

 

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