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| 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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