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[Erica Van Etten <ericavanetten AT gmail.com>]

Looking for a great way to learn your local birds?   Have you seen the pre-dawn flight of the woodcock? Want to know where you can see a nest of Great Horned owls chicks right here in Ithaca? Ever held a warbler that flew from Mexico in your hand?  Want to know what to plant to attract birds to your garden? Spring Field Ornithology, a popular 8-week course offered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology begins next week!

The class consists of Wednesday night lectures, weekend field trips on Saturdays or Sundays to birding hotspots in central NY, and two optional overnight trips.  The lecture section also includes two visits to the bird collections of the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates and a night 'owl prowl.'. Instruction is by Steve Kress, Vice President for Bird Conservation for National Audubon, staff at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and local birding experts. The field trips are organized into beginning, intermediate and advanced levels so the course is suitable for complete novices to experienced birders. There is a sense of community that builds throughout the course, and many people enjoy the trips so much they return to take them year after year with their friends. Students may take the course for credit by making arrangements for an independent study with their advisor.  

The course begins Wednesday, March 23 and runs through May 15th.  If you think you might be interested, you can watch a video about the course, look at photos, review the course schedule and enroll at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/sfo.  You can see photos posted by last year's students at http://sfocornell.ning.com/.

If you have questions, contact me at sfoclass AT cornell.edu or call 607-254-2466. 

Happy birding!

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Erica Van Etten

607-279-6402 (cell)