Birdy Hour: Identification of Shorebirds with a Focus on Calidris by Jon Dunn & Lara Tseng
Schedule
Tue Jun 21 2022 at 01:00 am to 02:00 am
Location
online | Online
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The shorebirds are always an exciting yet vexing group for birders. Join us for a talk by Jon Dunn and Lara Tseng to learn about identification of a subset of, certain Calidris sandpipers of the families in this group. In addition to identification, other important aspects will be covered, like plumages, structure, molts, behavior, status and distribution, and how to look at and study shorebirds. Learning shorebirds requires some memorization but more importantly patience, a love, and understanding of the many varied species in these families. Jon Dunn developed a fascination with birds at 8, sparked by when he saw his first male Hooded Oriole. He's lived most of his life in California, where he has studied and written about birds and coauthored several books with Kimball L. Garrett and Jonathan Alderfer, notably Birds of Southern California: Status and Distribution (1981), the seven editions of The Birds of North America with the National Geographic Society, and Warblers. Jon served for 30 years on the California Bird Records Committee and is a member of the North American Checklist Committee of the American Ornithological Society.
Lara Tseng is a 15-year-old college student majoring in biology and minoring in bioinformatics. She has conducted research on Western Bluebirds and is very interested in Calidris shorebirds, particularly the Dunlin. Lara hopes to become an ornithologist in the future.
This talk is suitable for all ages. Please register: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTUxODc0
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This program is possible thanks to support from the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.
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