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Wednesdays 7:30-9:30 PM, at the Lab of Ornithology on Sapsucker Woods Road in Ithaca, NY. PLEASE NOTE: ALL of the (optional) 1 hour guest speaker and video/multimedia presentations will begin at 6:30 PM.


NOTE: SFO Lecture coffee breaks courtesy of Wild Birds Unlimited at Sapsucker Woods

Saturday OR Sunday trips (student's choice - but you may not switch days from week to week). Locations, dates, and times as noted below. Please bring binoculars and a field guide to all outings. Meet inside at the Lab of Ornithology on Sapsucker Woods Road in Ithaca, NY (unless otherwise noted below).

March 24
How to identify birds & use binoculars; Winter landbird resident identification—please bring your binoculars and a field guide
No video
, guest speakers will be Chris Wood from eBird and Jacalyn Spoon from Adelson Library beginning at 6:30pm
March 27, 28
7 AM - 11 AM, Sapsucker Woods and vicinity
March 29 Waterfowl identification; Cornell Collections, Part 1 (with Dr. Kimberly Bostwick, Curator of the Cornell Vertebrate Collections at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Video: A Celebration of Birds with Roger Tory Peterson
April 3, 4 7 AM - 11 AM, Local wetlands
April 7 Early landbird migrant identification; Bird migration
Video
: The Life of Birds—Limits of Endurance, with Sir David Attenborough
April 10, 11 7 AM - 4 PM, Derby Hill Hawk Watch (please bring a non-perishable bag lunch and a drink)
   OR
  
7 AM - 11 AM, Local trip
April 14 Hawk & owl identification; Bird song & courtship
Video:
Pale Male
April 13 (only) TUESDAY, 7:15 PM, Woodcock/Owl watch
April 21 Late landbird migrant identification;Neotropical songbird conservation (Guest Speaker Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg, Director of Conservation Science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Videos
: Banquet at Delaware Bay, and Returning Home: Bringing the Common Murre back to Devil's Slide Rock

April 17, 18

*Please click HERE for info on our special field trip to Montezuma NWR.

**For a map and directions to Montezuma NWR, click HERE.

Special Montezuma NWR*, Seneca Falls, NY trip (Depart Lab 7:00 AM on April 17th, return at 5:00 PM on April 18th - please bring a non-perishable bag lunch and a drink - NOTE: you will need TWO if you are staying overnight)
  OR   7 AM - 4 PM, Day trip
  OR   7 AM - 11 AM Local trip

April 28 Eggs & Nests (Guest Speaker Dr. David Winkler, Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Cornell); Cornell Collections, Part 2 (with Dr. Kimberly Bostwick, Curator of the Cornell Vertebrate Collections at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Video: Fish Out of Water
April 24, 25 7 AM - 11 AM, Local upland habitats
May 5 Warbler and vireo identification; Seabird conservation
Video
: Watching Warblers
May 1, 2 7 AM - 4 PM, Braddock Bay (please bring a non-perishable bag lunch and a drink)
   OR
  
7 AM - 11 AM, Local trip
May 12 Beyond Birding; Gardening for birds
Video
: Band of Birders (Cornell Birding Team DVD)

May 8, 9

*Please click HERE for info on our special field trip to NJ.

Special Forsythe NWR*, Oceanville, and Cape May, NJ trip (Depart Lab 6:00 AM on May 8th return at 10:00 PM on May 9th - please bring a non-perishable bag lunch and a drink)
  OR   7 AM - 11 AM, Local trip

PLEASE BRING BINOCULARS AND FIELD GUIDE(S) TO THE FIRST LECTURE, AND ON ALL FIELD TRIPS.

NOTE
: Participants should have their own binoculars (spotting scopes are helpful, but not necessary), as well as a recent edition of one of the following field guides (which are available at most book stores as well as at Wild Birds Unlimited at Sapsucker Woods): A Field Guide to Eastern Birds by Roger Tory Peterson, Birds of North America by Robbins, et al., or the National Geographic Society's Field Guide to the Birds of North America.

 

For all SFO-related questions, please call the SFO Course Coordinator at 607-254-2466 or send an email to sfoclass@cornell.edu.

May 15, 16

**For a map and directions to the Arnot Forest, click HERE.

 

7 AM - 4 PM, Arnot Forest** (please bring a non-perishable bag lunch and a drink if you plan to stay all day)
  
OR   7 AM - 11 AM, Local trip

(NOTE: On both Saturday the 15th AND Sunday the 16th, ALL field trip groups will meet AT THE **ARNOT FOREST at 7 AM, NOT at the Lab of Ornithology.)