Flycatcher ID Workshop
Flycatchers
Flycatchers, or tyrant flycatchers as they are more properly known are a strictly American group found from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. They are dizzying in their diversity in South and Middle America, north of the Mexico border approximately three dozen species exist. However, this group accounts for some of the more troublesome identifications in the continent. The small "Empidonax" flycatchers are big identification problems, as are pewees, kingbirds and the slim and long-tailed Myiarchus flycatchers. This workshop focuses on these problems, and aims to sort these species out not only visually but acoustically. Sound is important with flycatchers! Furthermore these birds are very routinized, stereotyped, in habitat choice, voice, migration timing etc. We will talk about this aspect of their biology and how these characteristics, including behavior, can be important in helping to solidify an identification. This is a tough group, but we aim to simplify this, to create a roadmap to identification and offer tools that you can use to separate these birds. Flycatcher ID Workshop Taught by Alvaro Jaramillo on the Zoom platform - Dates: Mon May 10, Wed May 12; Mon May 17, Wed May 19, 2021. 6 pm Pacific time, class duration is approximately 1.5 hours including question period. Cost $125. Please scroll down to book. Download the workshop description for more details on what is covered, or E-mail us if you have questions. |
SFBBO - Bird Identification techniques Workshop
This is a workshop hosted by SFBBO, and we will be learning about bird identification. How we recognize birds to begin with, how to train our eye, and what are the features we need to look at to tell one thing from another. This will be a workshop that includes classic bird identification topics, psychology, and brain science! Quite a mix. The idea is to consider how you learn birds, and in particular how to gain the experience to quickly recognize birds and know what they are. More details are available in the registration page.
Details to come. Workshop Dates: May TBD , 2021 6:00pm – 8:00pm $100 total per person for both sessions - scholarships may be available. Please visit the SFBBO web site to register. West Coast Seabirds Workshop
West Coast Seabirds
This is a workshop on the ecology, identification, and wonder that are pelagic seabirds. In particular the seabirds of the West Coast from BC to California. This is an area of extreme ocean productivity, and richness of the seabird fauna. We are visited by seabirds from the north, the Antarctic, New Zealand, and the Humboldt Current! These are amazingly mobile birds, with the longest known migrations of any birds. We will talk about their movements, and why they visit the West Coast, but will also detail their identification and the times when one should be looking for them off our coasts. If you are planning a pelagic trip or two this season, this workshop really sets you up to understand and recognize the birds that are out there. Seabird ID Workshop Taught by Alvaro Jaramillo on the Zoom platform - Dates: Thu. June 3, Mon. June 7, Thu. June 10, Mon June 14, 2021. 6 pm Pacific time, class duration is approximately 1.5 hours including question period. Cost $125. Please scroll down to book. Download the workshop description for more details on what is covered, or E-mail us if you have questions. |
Gull ID workshops
Gull Identification – THESE TWO WORKSHOPS HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED, BUT THEY ARE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD.
The foundation and advanced.
Cost $125 or $225 if you book for both workshops. Scroll down to book.
Download the workshop descriptions (note dates are past, these are for video download) for more details on what is covered.
E-mail us if you have questions.
Gull Workshop 1 - The Starting Point (Video download)
$125.00
Download video of a past class. This is not a live class. The foundation for understanding gull identification. The more common and widespread species will be treated. Taught by Alvaro Jaramillo. Cost $125
Gull Workshop 2 - The Next Step (Video download, not a live class)
$125.00
Download video of a past class. This is not a live class. Workshop 2 - We take our gull ID foundations and begin to apply them to more difficult identifications, variation, and rarer species from Asia and Europe. Taught by Alvaro Jaramillo. Cost $125
Gull Workshops 1 & 2 - with discount (Video download)
$225.00
Download video of a past class. This is not a live class.
Workshop 1 - The foundation for understanding gull identification. The more common and widespread species will be treated. Taught by Alvaro Jaramillo.
Workshop 2 - We take our gull ID foundations and begin to apply them to more difficult identifications, variation, and rarer species from Asia and Europe. Taught by Alvaro Jaramillo.
Both workshops together offered at $225.
