Birding Insights - Intermediate Birding - Birds of Prey

12/05/2024 06:30 PM - 12/07/2024 01:00 PM MT

Admission

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

Location

ZOOM & Rocky Mountain Arsenal
6550 Gateway Rd
Commerce City, CO 80022

Summary

This section of the Intermediate Birding Skills course will focus on Colorado birds of prey and other birds you can expect to see at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal/Barr Lake area. This course will include a 2-hour evening class session held over Zoom on Thursday Dec 5, 2024 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm followed by a field trip that weekend to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, on Saturday Dec 7 from 8 am to 1 pm, targeting the birds and habitats covered during the Zoom class.

Description

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.

Intermediate Birding Skills 1: Birds of Prey – Dec 5

This section of the Intermediate Birding Skills course will focus on Colorado birds of prey and other birds you can expect to see at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal/Barr Lake area. This course will include a 2-hour evening class session held over Zoom on Thursday Dec 5, 2024 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm followed by a field trip that weekend to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, on Saturday Dec 7 from 8 am to 1 pm, targeting the birds and habitats covered during the Zoom class. Please join us as we delve into these fascinating birds!

You will receive an email before the webinar with instructions for how to join. To avoid our email ending up in your junk/spam folder, please add emails from "@denveraudubon.org" to your approved list or add us to your contacts. If you don't hear from us, please check your spam/junk folder. If you have problems logging in, please contact Kate Hogan, Community Outreach Manager, 720-214-2743

 

 

 

What do you need?

A passion for birds

Binoculars

Field Guide (book and/or app)

Access to zoom

Appropriate layers for Field Trip weather

Photo credit: Dick Vogel