The festival itself celebrates the migration of birds through the Pacific Flyway. Snow geese, ducks, sandhill cranes, tundra swans and other birds move through the area, flying south for the winter.

BirdLife International’s Flyways Programme unites BirdLife partners along the Pacific Flyway to address the main threats to migratory birds. Birds Canada and Nature Canada (BirdLife partners) are ...

The Pacific Flyway is one of four major North American avian migration routes, and California has been a major destination on the Flyway for thousands of years.

In late December, as part of the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, there were 139 species seen throughout Yolo County, compared to 135 in 2023 with many of those birds sighted Pacific Flyway Pond.

The waterfowl and shorebirds flying through California as part of the Pacific Flyway migration route are particularly susceptible to contracting bird flu, the wildlife department said, due to the ...