2019 Registration Options
Online registration is your best bet to secure a place in a popular event.
Click here for online registration (or paste our secure 3rd party registration site into your browser: https://www.signupmaster.com/mbbf/). Use the forms you find there to register for events and to purchase t-shirts & lunches. When you have finished, you may pay online using either VISA or MasterCard on the secure PayPal server, OR send us a check by mail to reach us within 7 days.
If you pay by check, make it payable to Morro Bay Bird Winter Festival, or MBWBF, and mail to:
Registrar, MBWBF
P.O. Box 1175
Morro Bay, CA 93443.
Online registrations paid by mail will be held for one week pending payment.
Additional purchases available during online registration:
Northern flicker
Morro Bay Bird Festival T-shirts
In consideration of rising shirt costs and feedback from our registrants, the WBF T-shirt will now be offered as a separate item for $15 purchase during online registration. Volunteers, including trip leaders, will continue to receive a T-shirt as a ‘Thank You’ for their donation of time and expertise. T-shirts will also be for sale in limited quantities at the Festival. The 2019 T-shirt highlights the artwork of René Reyes and his illustration of a Northern Flicker.
‘Birds of Morro Bay’ Quilt Fundraiser (Raffle Tickets for sale)
All 19 squares of this beautiful 62 X 75” quilt were hand-made by Festival board members Debi Dismer and Suzy Black using the “paper-piecing” technique (quilting by Donn McKnight). Appraised at $1,100 by an AQS Certified Quilt Appraiser - Rebecca Rogers - this stunning quilt will be on display during the festival, but only one lucky person will take it home. View quilt and quilt squares.
Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. Tickets can be purchased during on-line registration and at select locations in Morro Bay starting November 3. Tickets will be on sale at the festival until the drawing is held (TBA).
Onsite registration opens at 6 a.m. on Festival days beginning Friday, January 18 (6:45 a.m. on Monday). The registration desk is at the Community Center, 1001 Kennedy Way. Check in there to receive your Festival pass and packet.
Northern flicker
Morro Bay Bird Festival T-shirts
In consideration of rising shirt costs and feedback from our registrants, the WBF T-shirt will now be offered as a separate item for $15 purchase during online registration. Volunteers, including trip leaders, will continue to receive a T-shirt as a ‘Thank You’ for their donation of time and expertise. T-shirts will also be for sale in limited quantities at the Festival. The 2019 T-shirt highlights the artwork of René Reyes and his illustration of a Northern Flicker.
‘Birds of Morro Bay’ Quilt Fundraiser (Raffle Tickets for sale)
All 19 squares of this beautiful 62 X 75” quilt were hand-made by Festival board members Debi Dismer and Suzy Black using the “paper-piecing” technique (quilting by Donn McKnight). Appraised at $1,100 by an AQS Certified Quilt Appraiser - Rebecca Rogers - this stunning quilt will be on display during the festival, but only one lucky person will take it home. View quilt and quilt squares.
Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. Tickets can be purchased during on-line registration and at select locations in Morro Bay starting November 3. Tickets will be on sale at the festival until the drawing is held (TBA).
REGISTRATION TIPS
Use the 'Plan your trip' utility (most current and up-to-date information) to plan your itinerary for the Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival in advance of registration. Each trip has a three-digit number (found in the program information and schedule) to help you find the trip you’re looking for during registration more quickly. 1xx denotes a Friday event, 2xx denotes a Saturday event, 3xx a Sunday event and 4xx a Monday event.
We recommend registering for your highest-priority trips first to have the best chance of securing them. Make sure to also plan multiple alternate choices for each trip, as many fill very quickly.
If you encounter an error in the registration process, you can correct the error by simply using the "previous" option until you have cleared the error messages and re-enter your information. DO NOT “X” OUT OF THE WEBSITE AT ANY TIME AS YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RE-ENTER IT WITHOUT CONFLICTS. If you receive an error you cannot correct, exit the program and start your registration in a new browser such as Edge or Chrome or try another computer and use a slight deviation of the spelling of your name; for example instead of Tim use Timothy or simply T.
The system times out if you are idle for 20 minutes, and your registration will then be deleted. This means that if you do not take an action on a page for 20 minutes, such as clicking "Next" or "Add to Cart," your registration will be deleted.
We are processing payments through PayPal but you do not need a PayPal account to pay for your registration. When you arrive at the PayPal payment screen, simply click the gray box at the bottom of the screen that says “Pay with Debit or Credit Card.”
HOW TO REGISTER A GROUP
To begin, enter the basic information for the person who will pay (if you register as a group, you must pay with a single credit card). Then select how many additional people will be registered in this group (up to 3 in addition to the payer) and enter their basic information.
On the next screen, select a day, and then an event on that day. Select (check) all the people in your group who want to go on that event and click Register/Add to Cart.
IMPORTANT: Pay close attention to the message for each attendee after clicking Register/Add to Cart. If the event is full, there will be a red error message and the trip will not be added to your registration summary at the bottom of the screen.
Repeat this process until all events are added to your registration summary at the bottom of the page.
CONFIRM YOUR REGISTRATION
After registering, you will be sent a confirmation email (one per group). The confirmation email will include a link for you to review your itinerary. Be sure to carefully review the itinerary for each person in your group. Please check your junk mail or spam folders if you do not see an email right away. If there is a problem with your registration, please email us at mbbfregistrar@gmail.com, or call (805) 234-1170.
TROUBLESHOOTING
Registration will begin at 8:00am PDT on Saturday, November 3, 2018. The most common problem people encounter is that they can't see the link to the registration site. If you don't see a link to register, make sure you force refresh your browser. For Windows users, this is CTRL + F5 (F5 button at top of keyboard). For MAC users this is APPLE + R or COMMAND + R.
REFUND POLICY
If you cancel before January 8, we will refund your registration less a $25 processing fee per registration. Sorry, no refunds after that date. To cancel, please call (805) 234-1170.
Family Day Only
No preregistration and no registration fee is required, but some fees apply to specific events and can be paid at the event itself. See the Family Day webpage for more information.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
Cancellations made on or before January 8, 2019, will result in a refund of fees paid, less $25 administrative fee for each registrant. Refunds will be processed by the Registrar after the festival. No refunds will be made after that date or for no-shows.
Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival reserves the right to cancel any event for any reason, and you will receive a full refund for any paid event which we cancel.