Birding in Your Backyard and Beyond

Wednesdays, April 15-May 6,

7:00-8:30pm

Join Audubon staff for an online and interactive course built around developing and honing your birding skills and knowledge. This four-part series will first touch on birding skills for a variety of levels before diving into learning ways to identify our returning migrant birds as well as focal birds in our Healthy Forests program.  We will finish up with a review as well as ways you can support bird conservation in your very own way. Upon registration, you'll receive a link to login into the classroom, and workbook to download and print to follow along through the activities.

1. Birding Skills-  Whether a beginner or intermediate level birder, we can practice observation skills to identify a bird by sight or sound.  We’ll take a look at the plethora of new resources out there to help you practice at home too.
2. Neotropical Migrants- There are so many birds, and not enough time to find them all during spring migration!  While we learn tips from the field on identifying them by sight and sound, we’ll also discuss their stopover habitat preferences to possibly find them easier.  By knowing their habitat needs, we can also find ways to help birds on their journey.
3. Birds of the Northeastern Forests- We’ll study Audubon’s focal species of our Healthy Forests program, learning to identify the birds, and their preferred habitats.  Skills learned today will translate well to volunteering for your state’s Breeding Bird Surveys.
4. Community Science is for the Birds- We’ll review the skills we’ve developed in this series, and take a look at how you can support conservation by reporting your bird sightings.  Breeding Bird Atlas projects in both CT & NY need more volunteers and incidental reporting of key species.  We’ll take a look at how to participate in these projects and more.