DFO presents Dave Leatherman, Monday, October 24 at 7 PM

[Sharon]

Join Denver Field Ornithologists for a free webinar via Zoom. Dave Leatherman will present, The Life History of the Best Tree in the World, at 7 PM on October 24. Register here to attend. You will receive a link to the webinar and reminders to tune in. 

Leatherman, curious birder, expert bugman, exacting photographer and deft wordsmith, describes his talk with this riddle:

 “They smell like vanilla, sport dimples in their bark, feed pine beetles, house Pygmy Nuthatches, inspired Albert Bierstadt, frame the Front Range, fuel ferocious fires and comfort squirrels with tufted ears.”

To find out which tree he means and hear his entertaining defense, you need to sign up in advance. His talk will “celebrate the natural history of this wonderful tree, featuring the diverse birdlife among its boughs.”

 A veteran of numerous previous DFO presentations, Leatherman served more than three decades as the forest entomologist for the Colorado State Forest Service (1974-2005). Out of his deep background in insects that draw birds into Colorado’s forests, Leatherman has seen 460 avian species in the state (and had a part in finding four first state record birds). That’s an astounding 89.3 percent of the 515 species ever recorded in Colorado.

Leatherman is the author of “The Hungry Bird” column in Colorado Birds, the quarterly journal of Colorado Field Ornithologists. He has been figuring out what birds for over 35 years.