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March 15, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Virtual Birding on Sauvie Island

Join Greg Baker for quiz-formatted, online class that will help birders hone the essential skills of identifying birds by sight, sound, behavior, and habitat.

Located within the heart of the Pacific Flyway, Sauvie Island is the largest island in the Columbia River, and the site of an extensive wildlife refuge. We could not ask for a better, more accessible and diverse landscape to call our local patch, our living laboratory.

Greg’s interactive module documents a day birding in the field. If you are looking to improve your birding skills and confidence, this is the class for you.

$20 – $30
A Sandhill Crane stands in the midst of dozens of Snow and Ross's Geese.
Photo by Mick Thompson

Join us for a virtual birding tour of Sauvie Island!

This interactive class module documents a day birding in the field. If you are looking to improve your birding skills and confidence, this is the class for you!

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Class Details

      • Class: March 15, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
      • Class fee: $20 members / $30 non-members
      • Note: A recorded class link will be provided to all participants after the class. Thank you!

 

Meet the Instructor

Greg Baker

Greg Baker started birding at age 9 in Racine, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1977 with double majors: Environmental Science and Biology. Greg continues to teach one of Bird Alliance of Oregon's longest running programs which he started 26 years ago: Sauvie Island Exploration and Beginning Field Birding. Twelve years ago (2008) Greg was gifted a copy of The Big Year, and he has been on a mission ever since. His mission: to visit most of the places mentioned in the book, and to complete what he calls his own personal Working Stiff's Big Decade. Greg's Big Decade took him to 40 states and four Canadian Provinces, logging in 720 North American ABA-area species in the process. He photo-documented each birding trip and amassed a collection of 1200 PowerPoint presentations which highlight how to bird by general impression, relying upon sight, sounds, habitat, behavior and an in depth appreciation for status and distribution. Greg is also finishing a book on the subject of birding by general impression which he hopes to have published early next year, along with a website featuring his 1200 educational birding modules. As an environmental scientist/trainer he has over four years of recent experience teaching online webinar-based courses and traditional in person instruction.

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Details

Date:
March 15, 2022
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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OR United States
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Cost:
$20 – $30

Venue

OR United States
Website:
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Cost:
$20 – $30

Organizer

Tara Lemezis
Phone:
971-222-6131
Email:
tlemezis@birdallianceoregon.org

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