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Activity |
Classroom: Welcome!
Course Overview and Schedule |
Session 1:
Introduction - Bird ID - Learning to see details & patterns
Session Review & Answers |
Session 2:
Features - Silhouettes - Shape - Posture - Flight patterns -
Behaviors - Size - Comparing body features - Patterns
Session Review & Answers |
Session 3:
Bird Topography, Anatomy & Physiology - Feathers facts -
Feather groups - Wing morphology - Fat & Migration
Session Review & Answers |
Session 4:
Field marks - Head - Bill shape & colour - Wingbars & Wing
patches - Length of wing - Tail - Legs - Colours & Plumage
patternsSession
Review & Answers |
Session 5:
Song - Drawing sounds - Categories of vocalization
Session Review & Answers |
Session 6:
Habitat - Range & abundance - Time of your - Migration
Session Review & Answers |
Session 7:
Molt & ageing - Juvenile plumage - Prealternate molt -
Delayed plumage maturation - Feather wear
Session Review & Answers |
Field Session - Dawn - Noon
Guided birding tour of a lower mainland location |
Field Guide to the Birds of
Vancouver
Following our field session we return to the classroom for
an extensive review of the birds of the Vancouver area using
photographic images and field guides |
Session 8:
Equipment – Selecting and using binoculars & scopes –
Recording observations – Checklists & Journals – Sketching
birds in the field – Counting birds – Birding techniques |
Session 9:
Final presentation - Conservation – What you can do to help
– Putting your skills to the test – Course certificate
presentation |
