2005 FRIDAY WORKSHOP WITH
Eldon Greig
"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.
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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