Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival is Arizona’s oldest birding festival. Since 1991 we’ve been offering small group trips through monsoons and droughts … and even a global pandemic. 

The Southwest Wings Spring Fling will run from Wednesday May 7 to Saturday May 10, 2025

Spring Fling 2025 festival will be mainly Group Van Field Trips (marked GROUP VAN) with a few small-group, car-caravan style guided field trips in participants' own vehicles (marked CAR CARAVAN). Van trips go to more remote or distant locations and car-caravan trips will require less driving.

Schedule

Tuesday, MAY 6, 2025

3:00 - 5:00 PM

J1 Early Bird Check-in and Free Welcome Jamboree 

Early Bird check-in starts at 3pm.

Festival participants are cordially invited to join us as our guest for our pre-festival FREE Welcome Jamboree festivities at Cochise College, Sierra Vista.

Enjoy a chance to meet your fellow Southwest Wings participants, guides, and the faces behind “The Greatest Little Birding Festival in the United States”, along with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and beverages (non-alcoholic, due to licensing restrictions).

All attendees must register for the Jamboree. 

The Check-in and Jamboree will take place at the Cochise College Sierra Vista Campus Library, in Building 900. See map.

Date: May 6 - 10, 2025