In what has become a big and popular event for the area, the bi-annual Wings N Wetlands Festival is a 3-day birding extravaganza that draws 200 or more visitors from all over the country to take part in the jam-packed weekend. However, due drought conditions, the 2013 Festival has been suspended. Despite this announcement, Site Manager for the Kansas Wetlands Education Center, Curtis Wolf says that plans are in the making for a smaller-scale event.

In typical Festival years, approximately 200 participants from all over the U.S. come to the area and typically document around 180 species of birds during the WnW Festival weekend. Wolf says that with much of the Festival planning being done so early, and the current conditions being as they are, it was hard to justify the time and resources to offer the quality experience expected from the Festival. The tentative date for the smaller-scale event is April 27th of 2013.