DFO presentation for Monday, March 24, is "The Secrets of Boulder County: Revealed at Last!"
Joe Roller
Date: March 24 Save it!
Place: Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Use the west entrance, from which you will be directed to the Planetarium
Time: doors open at 7 and are locked at 7:30
What: the monthly meeting and program of the Denver Field Ornithologists
The speaker and secret revealer will be (who else but) Ted Floyd, who told me that -
Everything you’ve heard is true. But there’s so much more - so much you haven’t heard. And in this special DFO presentation, Boulder County panjandrum Ted Floyd will tell all! What’s happened in Boulder County will no longer stay in Boulder County. The secret ways of the Boulder County birding mafia will be revealed at last.
Well, sort of.
Mainly, this presentation will take a look at some of the things we’ve learned about Colorado’s birds in the past dozen years. It’s been a group effort, benefiting from the contributions of the excellent birders in all sixty-four of Colorado’s wonderful counties. Ted’s examples will draw from his experiences in Boulder County (the guy lives there), but they will have applicability to birders anywhere in the Front Range metro region and elsewhere in the Centennial state.
Even in a county as well birded as Boulder, the potential for surprise and discovery runs high. Every year, we learn cool new things about the endlessly fascinating avifauna of this small Colorado county. Not only that, we learn fascinating and gratifying things about ourselves: about how we process and share information about the natural world around us.
So come on out for an eye-opening, mind-bending look at the birds and birders of Boulder County. Ted promises never-before-seen footage of Boulder County birders in action. He says his PowerPoint animations are so bad they’ll make you groan. Most of all, he’s honored and delighted to have the opportunity to share with all of you his enthusiasm for the birds of Boulder and beyond.
Ted Floyd is the Editor of the ABA’s Birding magazine, and he is broadly involved in all the programs and initiatives of the ABA. Ted is the author of four recent bird books, including the forthcoming ABA Field Guide to the Birds of Colorado. He proudly serves as a director of Colorado Field Ornithologists, and is a past director of Western Field Ornithologists. Ted lives in Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, with his wife Kei, daughter Hannah, and son Andrew.