The ninth annual birding and photography festival, Galveston FeatherFest is a dynamic track of photography field trips and workshops. A record 210 species of birds were sighted during last year’s festival. Galveston is one of the top locations in the country for birding because it hosts a wide variety of habitats in a small geographical area where some 300 species make their permanent or temporary home throughout the year. The island also sits astride the 95th meridian, the dead center of trans-Gulf migration routes. The festival runs through April 10.