DFO Presents: Chris Wood Oct 13 - Ninety Years of Birding, 10 Years Ahead: DFO in the eBird Story

[David Suddjian]

Join us in person at the Lowry Conference Center (1061 Akron Way, Denver, 80230) on Monday, October 13. Our guest speaker is Chris Wood: DFO alumnus and director of eBird. Come at 6:30 pm for DFO's birthday cake celebrating its 90th anniversary and mingling. Woods' program begins at 7:00 pm. The evening will also include our annual DFO volunteer recognition.

Please provide us with a courtesy RSVP   so that we have an estimate of the number of attendees. The program is free.

Ninety Years of Birding, 10 Years Ahead: DFO in the eBird Story

Long before he collaborated in the creation of eBird, the global database and birding phenomenon, Chris Wood was a self-described bird nerd growing up in the Denver suburbs. In the late 1980s, seventh-grader Wood joined Denver Field Ornithologists to go on field trips and expand his precociously prodigious grasp of the world of Colorado birds.

Today, Wood is director of eBird and a prominent member of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology team at Cornell University in New York state. He is also managing director of the lab’s Center for Avian Population Studies.

As the most noteworthy alumnus of DFO in the birding world today, he will speak at a special in-person monthly evening program meeting to celebrate our club’s 90th anniversary.

Don’t miss this extraordinary program as we make our return to the face-to-face fellowship that marked the club’s original gatherings starting 90 years ago.

Wood, at right, birding with DFO on a DFO outing in Feb. 2018 (the late great Joe Roller at center . . .)

David Suddjian

DFO Communications and Outreach

Littleton, CO