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World Series of Birding

Cape May Point, NJ · Odd

When

May 8, 2027

Where

Cape May Bird Observatory, Northwood Center · Cape May Point · NJ

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Teams of birders race the clock for 24 hours to identify as many species as possible anywhere in New Jersey, a competition New Jersey Audubon has run since 1984. Cape May, sitting on a major migration flyway, is both the finish line and the unofficial capital of the event.

The history within reach

• Cape May Light0.1 mi

  The light at the very bottom of New Jersey, where the Delaware Bay meets the ocean and the whole eastern flyway of migrating birds funnels down to the point to cross.

• The concrete ship at Sunset Beach0.6 mi

  When steel ran short in the First World War the government tried building ships out of concrete, which floated but were too heavy to be any use.

• Cape May, the fake Newport from A Complete Unknown2.1 mi

  The 1965 Newport Folk Festival, the one where Dylan went electric and the crowd's reaction became sixty years of argument, was rebuilt on the New Jersey shore, with the songs performed live on set rather than mimed..

• Cape May Victorian Weekend2.4 mi

  Cape May's historic preservation group opens the town's Victorian mansions for candlelight tours, a crafts show, and walking tours of the country's largest collection of Victorian architecture.

• Cape May, the Victorian town2.9 mi

  One of the oldest seaside resorts in the country, burned nearly flat in 1878 and rebuilt all at once in the gingerbread style of that single decade, so it is now the largest collection of Victorian houses in America, a whole town of them, a National Historic Landmark entire.