Birdiest Festival in America

To purchase tickets, you’ll need to create a free online account on the Birdiest Festival homepage. You will then need to log in with the username and password you just created. You’ll be taken to a dashboard with your event information, which is also where you can purchase your ticket(s) of choice and learn what each ticket option has to offer. 

You can also download the Spaces by Wix app and join “The Birdiest Festival in America” to stay updated on the go!

The Birdiest Festival in America offers a variety of trips, events, workshops, presentations, and more each day. The 2025 festival brings new trip locations and events added to the schedule for even more bird spotting.  

There will also be two pre-trips from April 19-22 and one post-trip from April 28-May 1, 2025.

For more information, see the full schedule of events and mark your calendar for your favorites. Don't forget you can also download the Spaces by Wix app and join "The Birdiest Festival in America" to stay updated on the go.

Yes. There will be a Family Fun area with activities for kids including arts & crafts, nature learning, and animal interactions.

Yes. There will be a variety of food trucks available at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center available for lunch.

There will also be a Texas Barbecue Dinner catered by Mike Cotten’s BBQ to welcome festival registrants during the festival’s opening reception on Wednesday, April 23, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Water and Iced Tea is included, but there will be a Cash Bar available on site for other drink options. Meal tickets for the Texas BBQ Dinner are $24 per person.

As the “Birdiest City in America,” Corpus Christi is known for over 200 species in the area. The Birdiest Festival in America will be taking place during the spring migration so you may catch a glimpse of the smaller, vibrantly colored birds such as warblers, vireos, orioles, grosbeaks, and buntings; shorebirds moving along the shoreline and interior ponds; peak raptor migration; and a majority of local species that can only be seen in South Texas.

Since its inaugural year in 2017, the number of species spotted at the Birdiest Festival continues to increase, putting it in the running to have the largest species count of any festival in the country.

• 2017: 249 species
• 2018: 257 species
• 2019: 262 species
• 2021: 271 species
• 2022: 284 species
• 2023: 268 species
• 2024: 274 species

The hosting site for the Birdiest Festival in America will be at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center, where there will be plenty of parking. However, if you did register for off-site trips and tours, the parking will vary by location. Please see the Birding Trips page for more information on each location.