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Autumn
Birding Class| Oct 25 | Finding Birds on Purpose - Quit hoping to see a Short-eared Owl some day and go out and actually find one... or any other bird that interests you! |
| Nov 1 | Winter Birding: Waterfowl - Greater or Lesser Scaup? Trumpeter or Tundra Swan? And what about these "Cackling Geese?" How to see and identify every kind of duck, goose, and swan in Colorado. |
| Nov 8 | Winter Birding: Loons and Grebes - How to identify the different kinds once you find them...and more about how to find them so you can identify them! |
| Nov 15 | Winter Birding: Hawks - Just learn the secret behind "Old falcons give sparrows some anxiety!" and you'll never pretend not to see a hawk again! |
| Dec 6 | Winter Birding: Gulls - Find 10 gull species in Colorado by this time next year. Yes, you can! |
| Dec 13 | Winter Birding: Sparrows - This group offers 35 ways to drive you crazy, and 12 of them are hear during the winter; and of these, half are here only in winter. |
| Dec 20 | Winter Birding: Finches - People come from all over this country and even from other countries just to see rosy-finches here in Colorado. Have you seen the rosies? |
Class Details
When: Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Oct 25, Nov 1,
8, 15, Dec 6, 13, 20
Where: In the conference room of JAX Outdoor, 1200 N. College in
Fort Collins (map)
Cost: $7 per session for FCAS members or $46 if
all sessions paid at once
$8 per
session for nonmembers or $53 if all sessions paid at once (Join
now!)
Registration
Seating in the JAX conference room is limited, so class size is limited, making reservations necessary. To reserve a space in the class, call Kevin in the afternoons or evenings (he seldom answers the telephone during mornings) at 223-8392.
About Kevin J. Cook
Kevin J. Cook has worked as a writer-naturalist based in Fort Collins, Colorado, since 1980. While earning a bachelor of arts degree in biology (1978) and a master of science degree in wildlife biology (1989), he served with the National Park Service and did consulting for the Colorado Division of Wildlife. Since beginning his writing as a college student in 1975, he has published 6,000 newspaper and magazine articles, contributed to several books, and edited nearly 1,000 technical articles about wildlife for scientific publication. Besides writing he conducts seminars, teaches classes, and leads tours, all based on wildlife or natural history themes. Though birds are his specialty group, he studies all wildlife and uses his writing and teaching to help people enjoy the natural world more by coming to understand it better.
Contact information:
Kevin J. Cook
P.O. Box 76
Ft. Collins, CO 80522
(970) 223-8392
kjcook@frii.com