Join us in Woodward, Oklahoma, in northwest Oklahoma April 26-May 2 for the 2012 Lesser Prairie-Chicken Festival. The 2012 festival will feature keynote speaker ABA President Jeff Gordon and workshops with featured artist Jan Martin McGuire. Besides seeing the Lesser Prairie-Chickens (and so far 100% of participants have had close looks!) and birding around northwest Oklahoma, we are very excited to offer several new features for 2012:

• An opportunity to view Greater Prairie-Chickens from blinds in Osage County, Oklahoma!
• Packages designed specifically for photographers!
• Workshops with renown photographer Noppadol Paothong!

Check out the schedule of events, field trips, bird lists, registration materials, etc. on the rest of this web site. If you have any question, feel free to contact John Kennington at 918-809-6325 or johnkennington@gmail.com

To insure a quality experience, many of our events have minimum and maximum numbers of participants. To be sure you get your choice of events we encourage you to register as soon as possible, before the early bird reservation deadline of March 1st. Registration opened Oct. 30th.

Keynote Speaker Jeffrey A. Gordon

Jeff is the president of the American Birding Association, a writer, photographer, and naturalist. A lifelong nature enthusiast, Gordon worked as an interpretive naturalist, spent many years leading birding tours around many areas of the globe, and is a frequent speaker and trip leader at birding and nature festivals. Among his many projects, Gordon authored 11 of the chapters in the 2005 book Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, For more information on Jeff’s activities, visit www.jeffreyagordon.com.

Featured Artist Jan Martin McGuire

Jan is known as an artist and naturalist who paints nature’s diversity. She has been a professional wildlife artist for almost 30 years. Her highly detailed and scientifically accurate portrayals of the world’s wildlife are done after much travel to wild areas photographing and sketching her subjects and their habitat. Her work has been shown and is in private, corporate and museum collections worldwide including FORBES magazine; SMITHSONIAN museum; LONDON NATURAL HISTORY museum; GILCREASE Museum; and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC headquarters Visit Jan’s web site at
www.janmartinmcguire.com

Noppadol Paothong

Noppadol Paothong is a staff photographer for Missouri Conservationist, one of the largest state conservation magazines. His photography skills have been recognized by receiving more than 60 regional, national awards. For the past ten years, he has been extensively documenting North American grassland grouses To see Noppadol’s work, visit www.nopnatureimages.com