Scholarship Winner Adds Raptors to Favorite Birds After SFBBO Workshop

By Guest Blogger Christine Ledo

​I would like to thank SFBBO's donors for giving me the scholarship to their Diurnal Raptor ID Workshop with Alvaro Jaramillo. I was extremely excited to receive the news I was selected for the scholarship and could not wait to attend the workshops.

I have attended other informative talks, such as Nerd Nite, but those have always been live. I was curious what a Zoom version would feel like and found I was I was fully engrossed into the presentation. It was highly informative, and I walked away way more educated. 

​I learned the subtle and not so subtle differences between ...

different raptors. Although I call myself a bird lover, my love is for the corvids. After this workshop I might have to change my favorite birds now, and add a new tattoo next to my raven, Scrub Jay, and Anna’s Hummingbird. 
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I was not able to attend the Sunday session and loved that a YouTube version of that day’s workshop was shared online to watch afterward as well as the others for me to review.

I highly recommend others check out any of the seminars offered in the future. Zoom versions might not be the same as if you were there in person, but a lot of information does get presented, and it is also more intimate in a way, since chat questions can be answered right away rather than after a presentation. ​