Stories in Flight —
Connecting people through the global paths of migration and meaning.
Next in Flight: Bird Migration Gathering 2026
March 13-15, 2026
Three days of global stories, live connections, and meaningful exploration.
Three days of global stories, live connections, and meaningful exploration.
Voices from across continents—migration researchers, community leaders, artists, storytellers, and conservationists—gather to explore how birds connect our world.
The 2026 Gathering is currently taking shape. Speakers and experiences are being assembled with care to create a distinctive, globally grounded experience.
Click here to receive updates as the next Gathering takes form.
For Sponsors, Partners, and Speakers
Follow the Birds brings your work into a global field of attention shaped by migration, care, and context.
Follow the Birds brings together:
People practicing attention to migration across places
Contributors working in science, art, conservation, and lived relationship with birds
A community grounded in care, context, and seasonal timing
If your work aligns with these values, there may be a place for it within the gathering.
Three ways to contribute to the Bird Migration Gatherings:
Partners:
Extend the Invitation
Invite your community into a thoughtfully curated gathering rooted in story, migration, and shared attention.
Sponsors:
Help Hold the Space
Stand among peers whose work reflects care, attention, and responsibility toward the living world.
Speakers:
Offer a Contribution
Offer your research, perspective, or artistry within a gathering grounded in curiosity, care, and context.
What It Means to Partner with Follow the Birds
Partnering with Follow the Birds is not transactional. It is relational.
You are not simply promoting an event—you are helping carry a shared invitation:
To notice migration as more than movement
To experience birds as connectors of place, culture, and story
To gather without urgency, performance, or extraction
Partners are acknowledged as stewards of this invitation, helping it reach the people it is meant for.
A seasonal rhythm
Next Up: October Bird Migration Gathering
October 2–4, 2026
Each Gathering marks a moment along a longer migratory path.
March and October gatherings form an annual rhythm—returning, noticing, and reorienting together as birds move through the year.
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Follow the Birds is based in the southern Rocky Mountains of Durango, Colorado, USA.
We follow migration as a guide—across landscapes, cultures, and seasons.
~ Founder, Kelly Miller
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Durango, CO 81302
United States