Stories in Flight. Connecting bird lovers worldwide through the path of migration and meaning.
An Invitation to Speak in a Global Gathering About Bird Migration
A curated gathering exploring bird migration through science, art, place, and story.
The Bird Migration Gathering brings together speakers and participants from across the world — connecting people, places, and cultures through the shared rhythm of migration.
The Story We’re Exploring
The Bird Migration Gathering is shaped around a shared inquiry:
What does bird migration reveal about connection, movement, and responsibility in a changing world?
Across flyways and seasons, migrating birds link distant landscapes, cultures, and human lives. This gathering brings together researchers, conservationists, artists, and storytellers whose work helps illuminate those connections—through science, creative practice, lived experience, and place-based knowledge.
As a speaker, you’re not being asked to instruct or perform. You’re invited to offer a perspective—one that helps the community orient more deeply to the meaning of migration and their relationship to it.
Why contribute as a speaker?
The Bird Migration Gathering is a curated, high-trust space shaped around shared inquiry rather than instruction or performance.
As a speaker, you’re invited to contribute a perspective that helps illuminate the meaning of bird migration—across landscapes, cultures, and human lives—and to join a cross-disciplinary conversation with others who care deeply about this work.
Speakers often value this gathering for the opportunity to:
Participate in a global, interdisciplinary conversation spanning science, conservation, art, and lived experience
Share their work within a thoughtful, engaged community oriented toward meaning, not consumption
Build genuine relationships with other contributors, often leading to future collaborations
Create lasting visibility for their work through curated recordings and resources
Invite their own communities into a values-aligned gathering (with optional affiliate participation)
This is not an open call or a mass-market summit.
It’s a carefully held gathering where speakers are treated as collaborators, not content.
In a short introductory conversation, we’ll:
If it feels worth exploring further, the first step is a short conversation.
Share the vision for this global gathering (and how your voice could be featured)
Explore the story or message you feel most called to share
Discuss the best format and audience fit for your session
Answer any questions—and, if it feels aligned, outline next steps
No pressure. No pitch. Just a meaningful conversation about how your story might inspire others to follow the birds.
Ready to connect?
Let’s explore how your story might align with this global gathering.
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Durango, Colorado, 81303
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Follow the Birds is based in the southernmost part of the Rocky Mountains in Durango, Colorado, USA. My favorite migrating bird is the Black Swift, which travels from sheer cliffs in Colorado to the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. What's yours? ~ Founder, Kelly Miller