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Manatee Audubon Offers Bird Identification Course
An excellent course where you'll learn about Florida's native & migratory birds who winter here...and how to identify the various birds.
Class sessions for the 2016 Basic Bird Identification Course are from 6:30 – 8:30pm, on January 18, Jan. 20, Jan. 25, Jan. 27, and Jan. 28, 2016. All-day Saturday field trips begin promptly at 7am on January 23 & 30. Expect to be on the road until 3pm or later. We will carpool .Classes are held at Hope Lutheran Church, 4635 26th Street West (approx 2 blocks south of Cortez Rd.), Bradenton.
2016 MCAS membership is required and a fee of $50 includes all class sessions, handouts & field trips. No fee is paid until the first class session. At that time, please write a check to Manatee County Audubon Society. If not already paid, 2016 membership fee ($20/household) may be added. Course fees are for each person attending the course. One check may be used for all fees due and for all members of a single household.
As we usually have a waiting list, it is important that all 36 spaces be filled.
Before the course, it will be very helpful for you to view all 6, 10-minute videos by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, www.allaboutbirds.org. Click on tab labeled Birding Basics; then read Bird ID Skills before moving through the 6 videos by clicking the indicated buttons for the next video. These videos are organized like the MCAS Bird Watching Course.
Please contact Steve Black (ph: 941-376-0110 or sblack@gmail.com ) to register, or if you have any questions.
www.ManateeAudubon.org
