The 2025 Indiana Dunes Birding Festival will take place May 15-18, 2025. The festival keynote speaker will be Sacha Dench, the "Human Swan." Sacha is a pioneering conservationist, record-breaking adventurer, and inspirational speaker. A scientist and passionate story-teller, her recent ground-breaking expedition ‘Flight of the Swans’ saw her flying by paramotor from Arctic Russia across 11 countries to the UK to help save the Bewick’s Swan and inspire millions of people to help. In 2020 she was made UN Ambassador for Migratory Species. With three decades working in conservation research and problem-solving around the world, she co-founded Conservation without Borders to continue to develop innovative collaborations for nature including opportunities for global corporations to be at the heart of saving species. Find out more about Sacha at www.sachadench.com or www.conservation-without-borders.org.  

We are EXTREMELY excited to have Sacha join us next year. Mark your calendars for May 15-18, 2025 because you won't want to miss it! The keynote presentation will be Saturday, May 17, 2025 at Sand Creek Country Club. 

The full 2025 Indiana Dunes Birding Festival schedule will be released in January. For an idea of what to expect, you can view the 2024 PDF guidebook at https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2564/7756/files/IDBF24_Guide_final.web.pdf?v=1710773049.

(Adapted from https://indunesbirdingfestival.com/)