CE: Building Better Birders: The Ultimate Winter Bird Survey, A Summary of the First Ever Christmas Bird Count Marathon
Join us at Hitchcock Nature Center on Thursday, December 2nd at 3:00 p.m. for Building Better Birders: Guided Birding Hike & explore the Loess Hills & the birds that make their home there. This is a free program conducted by Kelly McKay with the BioEco Research and Monitoring Center with assistance from Mark Roberts from Clinton County Conservation and Brian Ritter with Nahant Marsh Education Center. Funding for this program is provided by the Resource Enhancement and Protection-Conservation Education Program.
This program is open to all ages but is geared toward participants age 12 & over. There is no cost to attend this workshop. Pre-registration is required as space is limited. Online pre-registration will open at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, October 29th. For questions not answered online please call 712-545-3283.
This is the first of three Building Better Birders workshops scheduled for Thursday, December 2nd at Hitchcock Nature Center.
3:00 to 4:30 p.m. - Guided Birding Hike
4:30 to 6:00 p.m. - Owl Prowl
6:30 to 8:00 p.m. - The Ultimate Winter Bird Survey, A Summary of the First Ever Christmas Bird Count Marathon
Attendees may register for all programs or may select the ones that most interest them. Click the links above for more information on each workshop.
Building Better Birders is a programming series designed to improve the bird identification skills of local citizens & promote a greater interest in citizen science programming. Workshops are presented free of charge & supported by the Resource Enhancement and Protection - Conservation Education Program (REAP-CEP).