Workshops with Alvaro Jaramillo for the Birder and Naturalist

These workshops incorporate ecology, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and natural history to complement bird identification information taught in class. There are two evenings of instruction and a weekend all-day fieldtrip. Put your birding into an ecological context!

Registration

Download registration form (pdf). If you are unable to download the form, please call the Bird Observatory office at 408 946 6548.

Each workshop limited to 15 students; workshops that are full will be marked as [closed]. See below for course descriptions.

Fees: $150 (+$10 one-time registration fee for nonmembers).
Location: All workshops are held at the Sobrato Center for Non-profits in Milpitas (Home of the Bird Observatory!).
The Sobrato Center for Nonprofits is located on 600 Valley Way, Milpitas. Directions

Times: Instruction evenings will go from 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.; field trip times and location TBA.

2008 Summer Workshops!

Shorebird migration is one of the most marvelous of all animal migrations. Some of these birds, no bigger than a sparrow migrate from the southern hemisphere to the subarctic or even high Arctic in a very short and rapid migration only to make this trip again in late summer. We are fortunate to live by San Francisco Bay, one of the world's most important migration stop-over areas for shorebirds, particularly so for the Western Sandpiper. Most of the world's population of Western Sandpiper use San Francisco Bay. We hope to show you numbers of migrating Western Sandpipers, curlews, dowitchers, yellowlegs, willets, and coastal species near Half Moon Bay during the field trip. The course will summarize identification of local shorebirds, foraging ecology, distribution and elements of how the migration works and the Bay fits into the picture of shorebird migration.

Birding Level: Intermediate on up.
Physical Requirements (for fieldtrip): Light to moderate depending how much we need to walk. All sites will be on flat terrain, often coastside trails.