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Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival

Funding for the birds

Celebrating the return of the shorebirds is not enough. We want to ensure that future generations can experience and enjoy this great migration too. The Festival's goal is to educate people about birds and to highlight the significance of habitat conservation. The Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival is not a fundraising event. The Festival budget is limited to cover basic administrative expenses and provide free and low cost educational events. If the Festival generates any proceeds after covering expenses, they are allocated towards education, research, and protection of bird habitat. The Shorebird Education and Conservation Fund has been established to support those projects.

On behalf of future generations of plovers, sandpipers, godwits, birders and many other species: Thank you for your support.

Kachemak Bay Shorebird Education & Conservation Fund

The Education Fund's mission is to preserve and protect bird habitat in the Kachemak Bay area through education, interpretation, facilitating wildlife-compatible public use, or land acquisition.

The Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival Committee started the Shorebird Education and Conservation Fund in 2001 with money raised from sales of Conrad Field's and Carla Stanley's original artwork and prints of those originals. These artists continued their collaborative donation for the next four years.

Homer artists including Gary Lyon, Orville Lind, Aurora Firth, the Kachemak Bay Watercolor Society and Lynn Marie Naden, as well as musician Sunrise Kilcher-Sjorberg, have helped to continue the tradition. The Shorebird Education and Conservation Fund was created to support bird education and the restoration and acquisition efforts of important bird habitat areas in and around Homer, Alaska. To date, the Fund has purchased a series of bird identification books for local schools and libraries and provides field guides and prizes for the Festival's Junior Birder Program.