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March 21, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Virtual Birding: Springtime Migrants on Mount Tabor

Mount Tabor Park is a beautiful, wooded 200-acre butte in Southeast Portland. To birders, the park is best known for its many neotropical migrants that can be observed and heard from April through May each year. One notable Big Leaf Maple has hosted as many as nine species of migrating wood-warblers! This class will focus on finding and identifying springtime migrants (primarily warblers, flycatchers, and vireos) as well as the most common year-round Mount Tabor residents.

This quiz-formatted class emphasizes birding by general impression and introduces which avian species to anticipate this spring and where to find them.

$20 – $30
Warbling Vireo singing while perched on a branch.
Warbling Vireo, photo by Andrew Reding

Let’s virtually bird Mount Tabor with Greg Baker.

Get to know the warblers, vireos, and flycatchers in spring!

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Class Details

      • Class: March 21, 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 21, 2022
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Cost:
$20 – $30

Venue

OR United States
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Cost:
$20 – $30

Organizer

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

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