The Festival takes place takes place June 2-5, 2022. Online registration opens April 9 at 8 am PDT. The Festival is headquartered in beautiful Sisters, Oregon and is a great opportunity to explore new areas and meet other local birders, with a good chance of seeing 11 species of woodpeckers. This is a very popular festival and most tours fill very quickly, sometimes within a day of registration opening. This year, participants have a choice of fourteen guided tours in search of 11 different woodpecker species and 200 other birds that make central Oregon a birding hot spot.