This Month’s Program:
Monday February 27
eBirding with Ted Floyd
Ted Floyd returns February 27 …..
Back by popular demand! Maybe you remember the March 2010 DFO meeting, in which Ted Floyd provided a very brief overview of eBird? Many of you said you enjoyed the presentation–but you wished there could have been more!
We heard your pleas. Ted will be coming back to talk in considerably more detail about eBird. The regular DFO monthly meeting for February will be held on the 27th at the usual place, Ricketson Auditorium in the museum.
In this interactive presentation, Ted will take us on a “live” tutorial of eBird. He’ll start from the very beginning– how to get to the website, how to get signed in, and how to start data entry. He’ll also show us some of the amazing new features that have been added to eBird in the past year or so.
Ted Floyd is the Editor of Birding, the flagship publication of the American Birding Association. He has published widely on birds and ecological topics. Ted has written more than 125 articles, with contributions to scholarly journals such as Ecology, Oecologia, Animal Behaviour, Journal of Animal Ecology, and Trends in Ecology and Evolution and contributions to popular magazines such as Natural History, Birdwatcher’s Digest, and Birding.
Ted has contributed chapters to textbooks and guidebooks published by Oxford University Press, Houghton Mifflin, and National Geographic. He is senior author of the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada (University of Nevada Press, 2007) and author of the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America (HarperCollins, 2008).
Upcoming Programs
Monday, March 26, 2012
LIFE Among the Headstones
Presenter: David Leatherman, Naturalist, Retired Colorado State Forest Entomologist
Much more than just a “graveyard”, this 40 acre site at the west end of Mountain Avenue in Fort Collins is home to over 600 trees (two of them State Champions), around 20 species of birds on any given visit (190 total during the last 37 years), amazing insects and spiders, a wide variety of plants (native, weedy, ornamental, and plastic), mushrooms crayfish, deer, squirrels, foxes, golfers, photographers, and other entertaining animals.
Made famous over the years by its sapsuckers, winter finches, a Tropical Parula, and other surprises, this presentation chronicles natural events observed during 300+ visits over the last two years. Learn about shiny wasps with 2-inch long bodies, baby birds over 6 times the mass of their parents, the building materials of hornets, peonies decorated with meadowhawks, and how cute little squirrels can be anything but cute. Featured will be the unprecedented double-nesting at low elevation by Loxy and Larry, an endearing pair of White-winged Crossbills. And no description of this remarkable place would be complete without touching on the strong ties to Nature memorialized at Grandview by the people who rest there and families who visit.
Meeting Location
The Denver Field Ornithologists monthly meetings are held in Ricketson Auditorium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in City Park. These meetings are free and open to the public and occur on the 4th Monday of each month August through April (except December). Park on the north side of the Museum and walk around and enter through the Museum’s west doors. Plan to arrive by 7:15 p.m.; DOORS OPEN BY 7:00 AND ARE LOCKED AT 7:30. If late, you can enter through the security/volunteer entrance on the north side of the building, but this does create problems for our hosts at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
NOTE: Please call the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for DFO meeting announcements or cancellations. Colorado Rare Bird Alert – 303-659-8750
DFO FRS Two-Way Radio Standard is channel 11, code 22
