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Friday Workshop:
"A Workshop on Bird Identification
and Birding"
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Friday Workshop
May 20, 2005, 9:00am - 2:30pm
"A Workshop on Bird
Identification and Birding"
This hands-on workshop will help you improve your
bird identification and birding skills and advance your
enjoyment of birds. You’ll learn how to look for, and key in on,
important identifying features and those often illustrated in
field guides. Audio visuals and bird specimens will be used to
demonstrate particular structures, shapes and field marks for
both the common and rarer bird groups. You’ll also learn how to
use habitat as a guide to identification. Proper use of field
guides and binoculars and other birdwatching tools will be
reviewed. And time will be spent in the field watching birds to
demonstrate and help participants practice these skills.
Participants should bring binoculars if possible (some will be
available at workshop), and dress for unpredictable spring
weather.
Cost for the workshop is $35 including refreshments and a
nice lunch. Register by mailing a check for $35 made out
to “Avian Enterprises” and sending it to:
Kirtland House Conference Center
Attn.: Jackie Liddle
10775
North St. Helen Road
Roscommon, MI 48653.
If you have questions on
registration, call the Conference Center at 989-275-5000, Ext.
418.
Registrants should include a return
address and phone number.
Click
HERE
for information about the Saturday presentations by Eldon Greij.
Eldon Greij
Eldon Greij is a native of
North Dakota and now lives in western Michigan. He studied
biology, specializing in ecology and ornithology, and received
his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1969. He was a member of
the Hope College faculty until 1987 when he left to launch
“Birder’s World” magazine. In 1995 he sold the magazine to
Kalmbach Publishing Company of Waukesha, Wis., and continued as
editor through 1998, and still writes a column for the magazine.
He continues in a part-time capacity as a writer, speaker,
nature tour leader and consultant. Much of this effort is
focused on his love of birds and birding. Dr. Greij and his wife
Maxine have a home in Holland, Mich., and spend much of the year
at their cottage on the Muskegon River near Newaygo.
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