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AT25-074 Hybrid, BIRD-201: Intro to Bird Behavior: Behavior, Life History, and More, Austin

February 19 @ 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

$110.00

Event Title: Hybrid, BIRD-201: Intro to Bird Behavior: Behavior, Life History, and More

AT-VMS: AT: Hill Country Chapter Other Approved Training (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, Location, and Presenter)

Comments: AT25-074 Hybrid, BIRD-201: Intro to Bird Behavior: Behavior, Life History, and More, Austin
Presenter: Sheila Hargis (AT=24h)

Event Dates: Virtual lectures 2/19,2/26,3/5,3/12
Field trips 2/23, 3/2, 3/9, 3/16

Event Time: 6:30-8:30p webinars
Field trips 7:30-11:30a

Event Summary:
This class will deepen your enjoyment, understanding and appreciation of birds.

Event Description:
One of the great aspects of birding is that you can approach it from many different angles. You can casually observe birds when they cross your path. You can sit in your backyard and enjoy the birds coming to your feeders and bird baths. You can focus on identifying as many birds at a location as possible. You can “chase” birds all over the world. Or you can watch birds and actively attempt to understand their behavior. Watching birds with the goals of understanding what they are doing and better understanding how they live their lives is the focus of this Travis Audubon class.

In order to really understand a bird’s behavior, a variety of information is required. You need to take your identification skills further to determine the age and the sex of the bird(s) involved. You need to know some bird biology. You need to properly document the behavior you observed, and you need to research the available literature to see if the behavior you observed has been documented and explained. After all of this, maybe, you can interpret the behavior to understand why the bird was doing what it was doing. Even if you can’t explain the “why” behind the behavior, you will have a deeper connection to our amazing birds from having observed them going about their lives. This class will deepen your enjoyment, understanding and appreciation of birds. Students should be able to identify most of the common birds in the Austin area – having completed the Introduction to Birds class is perfect preparation for this class.

Registration is limited to 12.

Shelia Hargis is the instructor for this class. She has been birding for over 25 years and lives and breathes birds! Luckily, she recently retired and can now spend nearly all of her waking hours birding, learning about birds, and/or thinking about birds. Within the last few years, she has become very interested in watching bird behavior to better understand how birds live their lives, and she recently completed the Cornell Lab’s Ornithology: Comprehensive Bird Biology online course with some of her birding buddies. Shelia teaches other classes, gives presentations on a variety of bird topics, surveys birds for the City of Austin and the North American Breeding Bird Survey, participates in numerous Christmas Bird Counts each year, and leads birding field trips. She is Past President of both Travis Audubon and Texas Ornithological Society and is still very active with both of those organizations. She is also a Capital Area Master Naturalist, Class of 2022.

Cost: $110

Register @: https://travis.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/travis/eventRegistration.jsp?event=12416&

Event Location: Field trip location will be given at webinar

Presenter: Shelia Hargis

Contact Information: shelia.hargis@gmail.com or 512-294-0272

Organization Website: https://travisaudubon.org/?event=bird-201-intro-to-bird-behavior-behavior-life-history-and-more&event_date=2025-02-19

Sponsoring Organization: Travis Audubon

Venue

Webinar