Cornell Lab of Ornithology Hosting Young Birders Event

The Young Birder’s Event will feature:

• two days of field trips
• presentations by Cornell Lab of Ornithology staff including professors, researchers, and students who will share various ways to incorporate birds into a career
• eBird and field notes workshop
• specimen preparation workshop
• sound recording workshop
• tour of CLO including the Macaulay Library and Museum of Vertebrates
• dinner with CLO Directors and Staff
  

Application Deadline: 10 May 2009 

Tuition: $100      Travel expenses to and from Ithaca are not covered in the tuition.  
 

Meet Chris Wood and Jessie Barry, the primary leaders for the event: 

Chris Wood is an eBird Project Leader and WINGS tour leader.  He’s a Colorado native who’s been birding since he figured out he couldn’t find dinosaur fossils in his sandbox.  Chris has traveled the world in search of birds and is thrilled to be able to share some stories and birding skills with young birders. 

Jessie Barry is the Assistant Curator of Audio for the Macaulay Library.  Her first word was “duck” and she’s been working on a life list since age 10.  Jessie was a young birder not long ago.  Jessie joined the lab in 2008, shortly after graduating from the University of Washington.