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SUMMARY:Ute Mtn Mesa Verde Birding Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Ute Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival provides a popular venue for visiting southwestern Colorado during the second weekend in May. Nestled between alpine and mesa forests and scenic desert canyons\, the Four Corner’s intriguingly diverse landscapes\, and mild climate\, have drawn people to the region for generations. Ancestral Pueblo farmers dwelled in places now known as Mesa Verde\, Hovenweep\, and Canyon of the Ancients. Today’s meadows\, pastures\, cultivated fields\, historic orchards\, stock ponds and reservoirs establish habitat for a wide-spectrum of migratory and resident birds. Some species\, such as Lucy’s Warbler\, are found no place else in Colorado. \nHosted by the Cortez Cultural Center\, the UMMV Birding Festival draws upon the expertise of regional wildlife specialists who volunteer as tour guides and guest lecturers. Each year new tours\, and repeat favorites\, explore an array of birding hotspots that attract avian species from loons and grebes to sparrows\, grosbeaks\, and finches. Overnight tours within easy driving distance offer different environs and the prospect of encountering species not found within the Cortez area. \nSouthwest Colorado’s first birding records date to the 1880s. Tours that combine birding with regional archaeology\, ecology\, and history take UMMV birders into the realms of gulls\, shorebirds\, waterfowl\, Osprey\, Peregrine Falcon\, Bald and Golden eagles\, elusive owls\, woodpeckers\, flycatchers and phoebes\, American Dipper\, towhees\, crossbills\, and colorful bluebirds\, tanagers\, and warblers. The festival’s birding tally has climbed to 180 species. \nThe UMMV Birding Festival designs activities and tours to fit a gamut of abilities\, ages\, and interests. Early evening lectures\, social hours\, a bird-themed art show\, and banquet add to the festival’s five days of enjoyment — learning\, socializing\, and most importantly birding.  Check their website to register for tours https://cortezculturalcenter.org/events/birding-festival/ \nRegistration is now open.  Don’t delay in booking tours.
URL:https://www.weminucheaudubon.org/event/ute-mtn-mesa-verde-birding-festival/
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SUMMARY:May Chapter Meeting-Birding by Ear
DESCRIPTION:In the last couple of weeks\, many of our summer songbirds have returned to brighten our lives with their colorful plumage and cheerful songs. Western tanagers\, black-headed grosbeaks\, house wrens\, yellow warblers\,  yellow-rumped warblers and others\, all announcing ‘I am here’. It’s time to renew our training in matching birds with their songs and calls.\nBirding by ear to identify bird species is an important skill used by volunteers in our Forest Bird Monitoring Project\, set to start soon. Oftentimes\, knowing a song is the only way to count a bird hiding in the brush.  At our May meeting\, Audubon Rockies Community Naturalist\, Keith Bruno\, will help us with some tricks to learn the songs of birds that inhabit our forests.\nDiane Cirksena is awarding a special door prize to a lucky person at the meeting\, but you must be present to win.\nThe public is invited to join us for our meeting on Wednesday\, May 15\, at the Community United Methodist Church on Lewis St.  We will gather at 6 PM for socializing  and the meeting will start at 6:30.  Please enter through the side door off the parking lot or let us know to open the main door for handicap entry.  In appreciation for our meeting space\, we welcome donations of non-perishable food for the church food bank. Use the following link to join by Zoom if you can’t attend in person. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/86126207702?pwd=8endilw6PRlhtWprnmpoXlW77DaiD6.1 \nMeeting ID: 861 2620 7702\nPasscode: 921620 \nOne tap mobile\n+17193594580\,\,86126207702#\,\,\,\,*921620# US\n+16694449171\,\,86126207702#\,\,\,\,*921620# US \nDial by your location\n• +1 719 359 4580 US\n• +1 669 444 9171 US\n• +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n• +1 253 205 0468 US\n• +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n• +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n• +1 360 209 5623 US\n• +1 386 347 5053 US\n• +1 507 473 4847 US\n• +1 564 217 2000 US\n• +1 646 931 3860 US\n• +1 689 278 1000 US\n• +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n• +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n• +1 305 224 1968 US\n• +1 309 205 3325 US\n• +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) \nMeeting ID: 861 2620 7702\nPasscode: 921620
URL:https://www.weminucheaudubon.org/event/may-chapter-meeting-birding-by-ear-2/
LOCATION:Community United Methodist Church\, 434 Lewis St\, Pagosa Springs\, CO
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