Colonial Coast Birding and Nature Festival

Field Trips

Seminars

Registration Information

ADVANCE REGISTRATION

Advance registration for the 2008 Colonial Coast Birding & Nature Festival will begin on 9:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday, August 23, 2008. Registration can be done either on-line or by mailing in the registration form.

ON-LINE REGISTRATION IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION
Link will be activated on 8/23/2008 at 9am

Your chance of getting on more popular field trips is greatly increased if you register early and on-line. Some field trips may sell out in a matter of minutes once pre-registration starts. Also keep in mind that it is the nature of the internet for web sites that are experiencing heavy traffic to malfunction. If you experience difficulty while navigating the registration site, or cannot get on it at all, please be patient and keep trying. We also ask that you please not call the festival line if you’re having this problem as there is nothing anyone will be able to do to help. The quickest way to get your registration completed is to just keep trying.

ON-LINE REGISTRATION: On or after 9AM on August 23, 2008, log onto www.coastalgeorgiabirding.org, click on “Registration”, and follow the instructions. Once you’ve completed the on-line registration process, print out a copy of your invoice and mail it, along with a check or money order for the total registration cost, made payable to Coastal Georgia Audubon Society, to the address below. CREDIT CARDS ARE NOT ACCEPTED. Payment must be received by the earlier of 3 weeks from registration date or September 28. If no payment is received within this timeframe, festival staff reserves the right to cancel registrations. You will receive confirmation of your registration via email when completed.

MAIL-IN REGISTRATION (not recommended if registering for popular field trips – see box above): Complete the enclosed registration form and mail it and a check or money order for the total registration cost, made payable to Coastal Georgia Audubon Society, to the address below:

MAKE CHECKS & MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO:
COASTAL GEORGIA AUDUBON SOCIETY

Registration CCBN Festival
c/o Jekyll Island Welcome Center
P.O. Box 13186
Jekyll Island, GA 31527

Once your registration is received and processed, we will send you a written confirmation. If any of your first choice selections are full, we will automatically register you for the second choice selections you made on your registration form. If there is a difference in the cost of any second choice selections (refund or additional fees due the festival), this will be taken care of when you check-in at the festival.

** IMPORTANT **
** Mail-in Registrants: A separate registration form must be filled out for each individual registering for the festival. Forms received with more than one person listed will be returned and not processed. If you wish to be registered with another person or persons, each person in your group needs to fill out his or her own registration form and then send them attached together, in the same envelope. One check or money order may be used to pay for individuals registering together.

CHECK-IN
Upon arrival at the festival (and before your first registered field trip or seminar), all pre-registered attendees will need to check-in at the registration desk located inside the Jekyll Island Convention Center. Here you will receive a commemorative tote-bag containing tickets to all of your registered events, maps to field trip locations, and various other goodies.

Please contact the Jekyll Island Welcome Center at 1-877-4JEKYLL if there are extenuating circumstances that will keep you from checking-in, and you need to make other arrangements to receive your tickets.

ON-SITE REGISTRATION
Festival rates for those who wish to attend the festival, but are not pre-registered are as follows:

• Full registration including admission to The Rookery exhibition area, free on-site Saturday seminars, and the option to sign up for field trips in advance*

$30.00 – Adult (19 and over)
$20.00 – Adult (Georgia Ornithological Society Members)
$20.00 – Child (13-18)
FREE – Child (12 and under)

• Admission to The Rookery exhibition hall = FREE
• Saturday on-site seminars* (a la carte) = $10.00 each Adult $5.00 Child under 12
• Field trips and workshops* (a la carte) = Individually priced (see descriptions) plus $10 surcharge for late enrollment

* Some seminars and field trips may be sold out. Those that are not will be available on a first come-first served basis.

CANCELLATION POLICY
Georgia’s Colonial Coast Birding & Nature Festival reserves the right to cancel or revise any event for any reason. If it becomes necessary to cancel a paid event for which you have a reservation, you will be assigned your second choice selection. If your second choice selection is not available, we will notify you by telephone, e-mail or in writing and issue a full refund. If you cancel your paid event registration by telephone or in writing, the following refund policy will apply:

• Cancellations received by 09/07/2008 will be fully refunded.
• Cancellations received by 09/24/2008 will be 50% refunded.
• Cancellations received after 09/24/2008 will not be refunded.
• No refunds will be given for no-shows.
• A $5 handling fee will be deducted from all refunds computed by the above refund policy.

A WORD ABOUT FOOD…

There are only a limited number of restaurants and grocery stores on Jekyll Island and most do not open early enough to accommodate the departure times for our field trips. Please consider bringing breakfast and picnic lunch provisions with you, especially if you have special dietary needs or preferences. Guest rooms in most hotels have small refrigerators and microwaves. For a list of restaurants and groceries, go to www.jekyllisland.com. There will also be a concession selling coffee and breakfast pastries each morning inside the Convention Center, where all field trips originate.