Registration is now open for the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resource’s 2025 Virginia Birding Classic, a statewide birding competition in which teams of birders search the public lands of Virginia every spring for as many species as they can find in 24 hours.
All registration proceeds will benefit the Virginia Wildlife Grant Program, which awards annual grants to non-profit programs focused on connecting youth to the outdoors.
Choose to participate in either The Cardinal Cup—the Virginia Birding Classic’s preeminent category of competition in which teams of 2–6 scour the Commonwealth’s many public lands to find as many species as possible in 24 consecutive hours—or The Big Sit—a tailgate party for birders in which teams of as many members as you’d like choose a circle 30-feet in diameter within the boundaries of one of Virginia’s many public lands and record how many bird species your team can identify in 24 consecutive hours from within the circle.
Registration and details can be found on the Virginia Department of Wildlife website: https://dwr.virginia.gov/virginia-birding-classic/
