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Birds And Birders Flock To The Oregon Coast

Andreas Trepte, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16110627
The Parasitic Jaeger is just one of many shorebirds.

It's a regular feature of hanging out by the ocean: the cries of the gulls.  They get most of the attention (volume helps), but there are many other interesting birds to see where land and water meet. 

And those birds will be celebrated and observed when the 31st annual Oregon Shorebird Festivalconvenes in the Bandon area on Labor Day weekend. 

Attendees will grab a variety of devices to get close looks at the birds. 

Photographer and author Paul Bannick will be one of the presenters at the festival.  He and Bandon's Harv Shubothe visit with details of festival plans.   
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.
April Ehrlich is an editor and reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Prior to joining OPB, she was a news host and regional reporter at Jefferson Public Radio.