Shorebirds in the Grass | Boulder Audubon Speaker Series

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Shorebirds in the Grass

Did you know that many familiar shore and wading birds don't nest by the ocean at all? These "upland" shorebirds and waders lay their eggs in the soft grasses of some of our most verdant prairies, or sometimes on bare sand flanked by tufts of grass. Join us for the next Boulder Audubon speaker series with Steve Jones, where we'll journey to the Nebraska Sandhills to explore the lives of piping plovers, long-billed curlews, marbled godwits, willets, upland sandpipers, black-necked stilts, white-faced ibis and several more. Along the way, we will learn all about why and how so many of these species are thriving in this oasis on the western plains.

Steve Jones is author of Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky; The Last Prairie; and Owls of Boulder County. He is co-author of The Shortgrass Prairie, the Peterson Field Guide to the North American Prairie, Colorado Nature Almanac, Wild Boulder County, and Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range. His consulting work includes more than three-dozen breeding bird and resource inventories for city, county, and state open space and wildlife programs. He has led field trips and taught nature classes for 40 years, and he taught in the Boulder Valley Public Schools for 33 years. Learn more here!

When: Tuesday, April 26, 7:15 pm.

Where: Zoom link will be provided here on the day of the event. We encourage you to join a few minutes early to avoid any technical issues.

We hope to see you there!

For recordings of past speaker program events, visit our YouTube channel.