The theme of this year's Blue Goose Festival is "Migratory Birds" and features a speaker from the Raptor Center who will be accompanied by four "assistants" including a bald eagle. There will be a myriad of activities for both young and old alike.

Additional events, held during the week of September 27, will include programs at Becker County schools; displays of student wildlife artworks and projects at the Washington Square Mall, local schools, and elsewhere in the community; a showing of "Winged Migration" in Detroit Lakes; and numerous birding trips to Hamden Slough NWR, Tamarac NWR, and various Waterfowl Production Areas of the Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District.