Intermediate Birding - Mountain Birds

06/12/2025 06:30 PM - 06/14/2025 12:30 PM MT

Admission

  • $70.00  -  Denver Audubon Volunteer/Donor
  • $80.00  -  General Public

Location

Zoom & Field Trip Location (TBD)

Summary

This section of the Intermediate Birding Skills course will focus on birds of the mountains and foothills around Denver. This course will include a 2-hour evening class session held over Zoom followed by a field trip that weekend targeting the birds and habitats covered during the Zoom class.

Description

Class Session Thursday, June 12, 6:30-8:30pm via Zoom

Field Trip Saturday, June 14 from 7am-12:30pm location TBD

This section of the Intermediate Birding Skills course will focus on some of the common birds you can expect to find in the higher elevation areas around Denver. This course will include a 2-hour evening class session held over Zoom on Thursday June 10 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm followed by a field trip on Saturday, June 14 from 7 am to 12:30 pm, targeting the birds and habitats covered during the Zoom class. Field trip location TBD. Although we have not selected a location yet, the places we are likely to go are all about 7000ft and likely to involve walking up and down some hills and over uneven ground.

Please join us as we delve into these fascinating birds!

You will receive an email two days before the webinar with instructions for how to join. If you don't hear from us, please check your spam/junk folder or email kristen@denveraudubon.org. You will receive the field trip location information after the webinar, based on the best location for weather/trails/etc.

What do you need?

  • A passion for birds
  • Binoculars
  • Field Guide (book and/or app)
  • Access to zoom
  • Appropriate layers for Field Trip weather

We've taken our popular Birding Insights workshops and expanded them even further!  Our newly updated Birding Insights: Intermediate Birding Skills program is a set of classes that span the gap between Denver Audubon’s Beginning Birdwatching Course and more advanced birding topics. This series is a set of six classes, with associated field trips, that cover most of the familiar birds of the Denver Metro Area, many of the habitats, and some of our best birding locations. Although the classes build on each other they are also designed as stand-alone classes, each focused on a specific set of birds, and do not need to be taken in order. So, you can take them all, or just those that interest you. You will learn key field marks for identification, habitat, range and behaviors to build on your birding skill set. Instructors: Audubon Master Birders Chris Gearhart and Natalie Vande Vuss.