AT: GCBO Bird ID Series – Sparrows of the Upper Texas Coast

This is a 3 class series with two virtual sessions via zoom followed by an in person field trip.

Gulf Coast Bird Observatory is pleased to host a series of Bird ID Classes focused on species in our local area! These classes are open to the public and consist of in-depth identification lessons in person or on zoom, followed by a field trip. This is a great opportunity to learn about birds, how to identify them, and where to find them in the wild. Your registration fee goes directly to help saving birds through our conservation work!

Join GCBO board president and Texas Master Naturalist Bob Friedrichs in January 2025 for an in-depth look at the fascinating and sometimes frustrating sparrows that inhabit our upper coast counties in the winter.  This course will have two weekday evening classroom sessions via Zoom followed by a full-day field trip to coastal prairies, wetlands and woodlands to study these ‘little brown jobs’ and put into practice what we learned during the Zoom sessions.  You can expect to learn about 23 species of sparrows and their close cousins that occur annually in the Greater Houston area.

Class #1: 6:00-8:00PM Monday, January 6th, 2025  (Zoom)

Class #2: 6:00-800PM Thursday January 9th, 2025  (Zoom)

Class #3: In person field trip starts at 8:00AM Saturday January 11^th, 2025 with rain date of January 12th if needed.

Course fee covers:

• Both classes and the field trip (car caravan for convenient departures)
• Peterson’s “Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America”
• Helping save birds, as the fee goes directly to supporting GCBO’s many conservation programs.

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