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Friday Workshop:
"Becoming a Better Naturalist
through Interpretive Birding"
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Friday Workshop:
"Becoming a Better Naturalist
through Interpretive Birding"
Over the past five years, Dr. Jim Davis has shared his
enthusiasm and knowledge of bird behavior by conducting unique
workshops on interpretive birding. Workshops are aimed at helping
others "see" birds and nature with a more acute and curious eye.
He has conducted workshops at many Audubon groups, naturalist
conventions, and birding festivals.
Dr. Davis takes great pride in helping people view nature and
wildlife in a different light. He contends that closer involvement
with birds and the natural world is what is required to turn the
tide in favor of sustainable conservation policies and practices.
Jim has studied birds for 20 years and in the past 15 years
traveled the world to expand his observations and share his
experiences through his writings. He started and is the publisher
of the Interpretive Birding Bulletin, a bi-monthly international
science magazine on bird behavior written for birders.
Dr. Jim Davis has been invited to the 2004 KW Festival to conduct
one of his stimulating workshops on interpreting bird behavior.
Participants will learn how to identify specific behaviors, how to
profile those behaviors, as well as interpreting the meaning of
different bird songs. In a nut shell, he helps birders
become better naturalists.
The workshop is being held on Friday, May 14, at the Kirtland
Community College conference center from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Cost is $45 per person including lunch. The morning is a lecture
and discussion on interpretive birding skills, the afternoon a
birding field trip to practice techniques discussed in the
classroom. Jim will also give two presentations at the Festival on
Saturday, May 15.
A comment he often hears after his lectures and workshops: "You
have changed how I view nature and how I do my bird watching.
Thank you for making birding much more enjoyable for me." For more
information, visit
www.ibirding.com.
For reservations call
989-275-5000 ext. 418. Space is limited. Participants should send a check
made out to "Jim Davis, IBB" and send it to:
Kirtland Community
College
Attn. Jackie Liddle
10775 N. St. Helen Road
Roscommon, MI 48653
Registrants should include a return
address and phone number.
Click
HERE
for information about the Saturday presentations by Dr. Jim Davis.
Dr. Jim Davis
Dr Jim Davis has studied bird
behavior for twenty years. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Texas at Austin and went on to do a post-doc at the
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. His scientific
contributions have focused on various aspects of kingfisher
behavior including territoriality, vocal communication, and mating
systems. Over the past 15 years, Jim has traveled to different
parts of the world to observe and write about bird behavior. In
1997, he started the Australian edition of Interpretive Birding
Bulletin and, in 2000, the North American edition.
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