|
Day |
Time |
Activity |
|
Friday |
1:00 pm |
Classroom: Welcome! |
|
1:15 pm |
Course overview and schedule |
|
1:30 pm |
Session 1 - 3: Birds and
the Environment - An Introduction to the Vancouver Avian
Research Center's Bird Banding Program. Banding station
protocol and Bander's code of ethics. |
|
2:30 pm |
Session review & answers |
|
3:00 pm |
MetroVancouver Headquarters
grounds: An introduction to mist nets and general
mist-netting procedures. Nets, poles, attachments and bird
banding equipment. Dismantling, furling and storing nets.
|
|
3:20 pm |
Classroom: Introductions |
|
3:30 pm |
Session 4: Bird
topography, anatomy and physiology - including exercises |
|
4:30 pm |
Session review & answers |
|
5:00 pm |
Session 5: An
introduction to ageing, sexing, and molt and plumage
terminology. Break |
|
6:00 pm |
Dinner |
|
6:30 pm |
Session 5: continued |
|
7:30 pm |
Session review & answers |
|
Saturday |
9.00 am |
Refresher questions and answers
from Day 1 |
|
9.30 am |
Session 6: Ageing North
American landbirds by molt limits and plumage criteria -
including exercises |
|
11:30 am |
Break |
|
11:45 pm |
Bird Monitoring and
Identification session |
|
12:30 pm |
Lunch |
|
1:00 pm |
Session 7: Advanced
ageing and sexing techniques |
|
2:30 pm |
Break |
|
3:00 pm |
Creating species summaries |
|
3:30 pm |
Specimens |
|
4:00 pm |
Session review & answers |
|
Sunday |
Dawn - 11:30 am |
Banding Station:
Field session, banding, ageing and sexing live birds, taking
bio-metric measurements & data recording |
|
12.00 pm |
Refresher questions and answers
from Day 2 |
|
12:30 pm |
Lunch and study / review session |
|
1:00 pm |
Putting your knowledge to the
test followed by review |
|
2:45 pm |
Course certificate presentation |
|
3:00 pm |
Sessions 8: Final session
and wrap-up |
|
4:00 pm |
Close |
