Copper River Delta Shorebird Festival

Artisan Market
Sunday May 4th, 9 AM-1 PM
Cordova Center, 601 1st St, Cordova, AK 99574

Check out the Festival Artisan Market on Saturday and Sunday. This cozy market will feature a small group of local artisans offering everything from homemade tinctures to beautiful, locally made jewelry and more. It’s the perfect spot to find something unique, support local creators, and take home a special festival keepsake.

Birding Field Trip at Hartney Bay
Sunday, May 4, 2025
7:00 AM 8:00 AM
Hartney Bay, Cordova, AK

This field trip offers participants the chance to observe shorebirds and other wildlife in their natural habitat with the guidance of seasoned birding experts. Registrants will have the opportunity to enhance their bird identification skills while exploring one of the region’s prime birdwatching locations.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to connect with nature and deepen your birding knowledge!

Group Nature Journaling
Sunday, May 4, 2025
7:00 AM 8:00 AM
Cordova, AK, 99574

Beginning Shorebird drawing/Nature journaling. Please contact The Net Loft for more info.

Pacific Flyway Meditation: Loving Kindness On Your Journey
Sunday, May 4, 2025
9:30 AM 10:15 AM
Orca Lodge or Current Rhythms Studio

Unwind from a bustling birding festival with "Pacific Flyway Meditation: Loving Kindness On Your Journey” with Amanda Williams. A free meditation class designed to enrich your spiritual journey through the practice of loving kindness, this class introduces the transformative technique of loving kindness meditation, where we focus on cultivating an attitude of benevolence and positivity towards ourselves and others. As you reflect on your adventures in nature, learn a powerful meditation practice that you can carry with you, enhancing not only your birding experiences but also your everyday interactions. Join G&G Alaskan Outfitters to nurture a compassionate heart and a peaceful mind, and leave with a technique that will accompany you on all your adventures to come.

Lavender essential oils will be used to accompany the practice. If you have an allergy, please refrain from joining us.

This class requires the ability to perform light stretching, sit on a yoga mat/lay down for up to 30 minutes. Plan accordingly if you have physical restrictions.

Please dress appropriately for a relaxing space

For questions reach out to gandgakoutfitters@gmail.com

In Flight Art Exhibit Opening
Sunday, May 4, 2025
10:00 AM 12:00 PM
Prince William Sound Science Center, 700 New England Cannery Rd, Cordova, AK 99574
Opening May 4th 10 am - 12pm. Exhibit open until May 31st

Birds in flight are often mesmerizing—their movement feels like art, synchronized and graceful, but the patterns are often too quick for the eye to see. In Flight is a photography exhibit revealing these hidden rhythms, turning fleeting movement into lasting images. Using a stationary aerial camera, this project captures the arcs, ripples, and sweeping paths that waterbirds carve across the sky and along the tides, making the ephemeral visible—and inviting us to look closer, wonder more, and rethink patterns that shape the natural world.

Great Cordova Birding Challenge
Sunday, May 4, 2025
1:00 PM 9:00 PM
Reluctant Fisherman, 407 Railroad Ave, Cordova, AK 99574

8-hour Challenge 1:00 pm-9:00 pm May 4th. Meet at the Reluctant Fisherman restaurant at 9:00pm for tallies and awards.

To join, pick up your Birding Challenge Packet at the Welcome Table!

1. Checklists must be turned in to officials before 9:00 pm on May 4th at Reluctant Fisherman restaurant.

2. Teams that fail to meet the 9:00 pm deadline will forfeit one bird from their official total for every five-minute period that they are late.

3. Make sure that you double-check your checklist to verify that all birds recorded have been checked off. Totals are considered final when submitted. NO ALTERATIONS OR CORRECTIONS MAY BE MADE AFTER CHECKLISTS HAVE BEEN TURNED OVER TO OFFICIALS.

4. In the event of a tie, the place will be shared.

Please return the form and entry fee (fee only applies for non-festival registrants) to the Shorebird Festival Welcome Table. Make checks payable to the CORDOVA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Black Bellied Plover Needlefelt Workshop
Sunday, May 4, 2025
6:00 PM 10:00 PM
The Net Loft, 140 Adams Ave, Cordova, AK 99574

Enjoy an afternoon of crafting at the Net Loft as you create a framed wool painted shorebird. You will learn the basics of needle felting while illustrating in wool, a male Black Bellied Plover in breeding plumage, a migratory bird that travels to the Copper River Delta region each spring.

May 4th, 1:30-6 pm upstairs at The Net Loft

Class Instructional Fee ($25), Materials Fee ($75) includes all fibers, felt background, mat, and thick shadowbox frame. Use of needle felting tools included in class fee.

(Shorebird Event Participants to receive 5% discount at checkout with code distributed when enrolled in the festival)

Nature Yoga
Sunday, May 4, 2025
7:00 PM 8:00 PM
Prince William Sound Science Center, 700 New England Cannery Rd, Cordova, AK 99574

Beat the "Sunday Scaries" with sunset yoga at the Science Center.

Aviva will be leading shorebird themed yoga in the atrium of our building on May 4th from 7-8pm. Come discover what birds can teach us about resilience and stamina. Don't have a yoga mat? Don't worry. Let us know and we will try to have a few extra on hand.