The Language of Birds with Nathan Pieplow

Name: The Language of Birds with Nathan Pieplow
Start: 2025-09-17T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-17T20:30:00-07:00
Location: 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, California 93105

Schedule

Wed Sep 17 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, California 93105 | Santa Barbara, CA

Presented by the Santa Barbara Audubon Society and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
All around us, the birds are constantly telling us who they are and what they are doing. In this fascinating illustrated talk, Nathan Pieplow unlocks the secrets of their language. We’ll listen in on the pillow talk of a pair of Red-winged Blackbirds and learn the secret signals that Cliff Swallows use when they have found food. We’ll learn how one bird sound can have many meanings, and how one meaning can have many sounds—and how, sometimes, the meaning isn’t in the sounds at all. This talk from the author of the Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds is an accessible, entertaining introduction to a fascinating topic.
Nathan Pieplow is the author of the Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds, published in two volumes, one for Eastern and one for Western North America. An avid bird sound recordist and videographer, he is the author of the bird sound blog Earbirding.com, a board member of the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, an author of the Colorado Birding Trail, and former editor of the journal Colorado Birds. He teaches writing and rhetoric at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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Photo by Will Anderson