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
• sound recording workshop
• tour of the Cornell Lab including the Macaulay Library and Museum of Vertebrates
• dinner with Cornell Lab Directors and Staff
  

Application Deadline: 25 April 2011

Tuition: $250      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 a Project Leader for eBird and Neotropical Birds.  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 and show how to transform birding into science.

Jessie Barry recently started in a new role at the Lab serving as the Merlin Project Leader.  For the last several years, she worked as the Assistant Curator in the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. 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. Along with Chris, Jessie hosts the Lab's birding video series called Inside Birding.