Wild Talk #2: Exploring Bird Language with Dr. Lee Burton

500 Spoke Hollow Road,Wimberley TX 78676

16 April, 2022

Description

Join us at the Spoke Hollow Ranch in Wimberley, Texas for an afternoon of exploration, education, and community with Dr. Lee Burton. Explore the language of the birds! Whether you have been a birder for life, or you don’t know an eagle from a sparrow, this course is for you! Interpreting bird language entails understanding what birds are saying and how they are saying it and is an ancient skill that people have used to help them survive and thrive for thousands of years. Birds are the news media of the ecosystem as they describe where food, water, shelter and most importantly, where danger is located. They are keenly aware of their surroundings and often very vocal about what they observe (especially songbirds) and put an audible soundtrack and visible body language to the happenings in the landscape around us, noting subtle shifts in the movements and energies of other species nearby. You will learn to identify and differentiate between bird songs, companion calls, territorial calls, juvenile begging behavior, and alarms, and hence gain insight into the current state of play of the environment immediately around you as well as movements of predators and other events that are unfolding on the landscape.