We invite proposals from individuals and organizations interested in offering an online presentation, walk, or other in-person events as part of the Festival.
Programs need to be relevant, appeal to a birding audience, produceable, not duplicative of other widely available programming, and show potential for creating “collective awe.” We appreciate your interest and effort.
Please do not spend too much time on your initial proposal. We mostly want to know you are out there that you’d like to work with us. We’re also happy to talk and answer questions.
Community volunteers and Festival organizers carefully consider all proposals (want to be a reviewer? Email us). This means reviewing proposals can take some time, but we try to respond within a month.
There is an upside, though—feedback from the community can be extremely valuable in refining a concept. This is especially important as we try to offer content that engages different segments of the birding audience.
Opportunities are limited.
We’re working on an FAQ for proposals —in the meantime, please email any questions you have to hello@ bostonbirdingfestival.org. Thanks!
Conversations with authors and scientists
Birding in new and unexpected places
Understanding alarm calls/behavior or chip notes or flight note or the predawn chorus
Audio gear for birding
Xeno Canto, eBird, radar, MOTUS, and iNaturalist
Participatory science projects related to birds
Migration
Speciation and species flocks
Planning a Big Year, or what anyone one thinking about a Big Year should know
Indigenous history and perspectives on New England birds
Trail camera photography and videographs
Tracking
Human behavior around birds/ the human-bird connection
Classroom bird projects for teachers
The social and political lives of ducks
What is an egg?
Birds of riparian habitats
City park bird walk & clean up
Kayaking, biking or tree-climbing while birding
Native plants, pollinators and and birds
Field sketching
Emily Dickinson
Birds and dinosaurs
Blue Jay behavior
Understanding the wrack line
Nightime bird walk
Silent bird walk/disco
