Birding by Ear Workshop with Jason "the Birdnerd" St. Sauver

Sunday March 15

Time: 9:00-10:30 am
Cost: $10, registration required

About:
Many birders focus primarily on learning to identify birds by sight based on plumage, colors and field markings. Learning to identify birds by sound, however, can help birders identify many birds whose songs and calls are more distinctive than their coloration. Tuning your ear to a bird’s song can also help you locate birds more easily instead of relying on brief flickers of movement through dense trees and brush, and birders who recognize birds’ songs can also enjoy birding when low light levels and poor visibility may restrict visual birding. Most important, however, is the fact that a bird’s song is yet one more clear field mark for its positive identification, and combining a knowledge of bird sounds with visual sightings can help you better appreciate the diversity of avian life you see.

Learn about the Instructor:
Jason “the Birdnerd” came to Audubon in 2013 after a 10 year career with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Starting at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center and joining Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center staff in 2015, St. Sauver has been the lead Education staff here creating programming for all ages and audiences like the international Let’s Go Birding Together and more recently, the Wildlife Explorers curriculum for middle and high school aged students to experience field surveys as an Ornithologist, Botanist, and Entomologist on field trips and in after school programming.

St. Sauver was the 2018 winner of Audubon’s Chotzen Educator of the Year award and is locally known as a birding-by-ear expert. Along with birds, he loves travel, reading, and horror films.

You may also like the following events from Rowe Sanctuary:

• Happening on, 5th March, 01:00 pm, The Natural History of North American Cranes in Gibbon
• Happening on, 14th March, 11:00 am, Speaker Series: Nebraska Big Year: Chasing 350 with Tobin Brown in Gibbon
• Happening on, 27th March, 02:30 pm, Speaker Series: Stories and Studies: The Artistic and Scientific Collaboration of Counting Cranes in Gibbon

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