MCAS Virtual Community Program - SEP 16 - The Language of Birds

Great-tailed Grackle, Phillips County, CO [photo by Nathan Peiplow]

MCAS Virtual Community Program

When:             Monday, September 16th, 2024, 7:00 pm

Title:                The Language of Birds

Presenter:       Nathan Pieplow, author of the Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds

 

Join Zoom Meeting  Zoom Meeting ID: 994 6733 5823  Passcode: 912453

 

All MCAS Zoom Community Programs are free and open to the public. All ages are welcome. No signup/registration required to attend.

 

Description: All around us, the birds are constantly telling us who they are and what they are doing. In this talk, Nathan Pieplow unlocks the secrets of their language. You’ll listen in on the pillow talk of a pair of Red-winged Blackbirds, and learn the secret signals that Cliff Swallows use when they have found food. You’ll learn how one bird sound can have many meanings, and how one meaning can have many sounds—and how, sometimes, the meaning isn’t in the sounds at all. This talk from the author of the Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds is an accessible and entertaining introduction to a fascinating topic.

 

Bio: Nathan Pieplow is the author of the Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds, published in two volumes, one for Eastern and one for Western North America. An avid bird sound recordist and videographer, he is the author of the bird sound blog https://earbirding.com/blog/, a board member of the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, an author of the Colorado Birding Trail, and former editor of the journal Colorado Birds. He teaches writing and rhetoric at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

 

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