David Jensen and Tim Bray Present

WINTER BIRDS OF THE MENDOCINO COAST

Slide show, Quiz, and Drinking Game

Monday, December 11 at 7:00PM

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The Mendocino coast is a winter birding hotspot, with more than 130 species regularly found on each of our Christmas Bird Counts. Instead of trying to review all of them in one presentation, and wearing everyone out, we have created a series of video tutorials on the Mendocino Audubon YouTube channel:

Look under “Playlists” for “Birding Tutorials.” There you will find a recording of the last time we tried, and failed, to get through a slide show in under two hours. You will also find ten shorter, focused videos focused on certain taxonomic groups, providing more detail on what to look for when trying to identify these birds in the field. These let us spend the extra time to really get into the weeds on some of the more challenging aspects of birding: Raptors, Owls, Woodpeckers, Sparrows and Finches, Grebes, Cormorants, and Gulls. You can go through those at your own pace, skipping through the stuff you already know and slowing down to let the new information soak in.

Having done those, we now feel free to loosen up and have some fun with the annual slide show of winter birds. Instead of trying to teach you anything, we want to find out what you’ve already learned. Last year we learned that some of you really know your birds (and we’re taking credit for that), so look for some new challenges this year. David and Tim are the compilers of the Manchester and Fort Bragg Christmas Bird Counts, and past and current Presidents of the Mendocino Coast Audubon Society.