Railroad Park (6th and Main St.)
Parade Winners announced at 12:30 - 2:30 pm
Guests proceed to speaker series at PMAR - 101 Marine Center Dr., Palacios, TX
1:30 - 2:30 pm - Session 1
Margie Crisp - “Duck Walk: A Birder’s Improbable Path to Hunting as Conservation”
Madi Radford - “Whooping Cranes of the Gulf Coast: Where Two Populations Survive and Thrive”
Woody Woodrow - “The Smallest Gruiform - The Black Rail - Marsh Birds in a Changing World”
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Session 2
David Newstead - Plovers All Over: Research and Insights from the Plover-iest Corner of the Continent
Leslie Hartman - “Bird Bait - How the Water’s Food Web Supports Birds of the Air”
Jay Tarkington - “Oysters. Building Blocks of the Coast”
3:30 - 4:30 pm - Session 3
Margie Crisp - “Parting The Waters: The Colorado River Raft and Matagorda Bay”
Alexis Balderas - “Audubon Texas: 100 Years of Coastal Bird Islands”
Kelsey Biles - “Wintering Ecology of the American Kestrel: the Behavior, Survival, and Future of our Smallest Raptor”
Keynote Speaker Romey Swanson
Texas Audubon Director of Conservation Strategy
“Survival by Degrees - The Future of Birds”
Palacios Educational Pavilion
693 South Bay Blvd., Palacios, TX
