Falcons and Eagles and Vultures – Oh My!

Have you ever wondered… what type of bird is that soaring overhead? Here’s your chance to learn from a local expert, Steve Schubert!

Learn to identify hawks, eagles, falcons, ospreys, kites, harriers, accipiters, vultures, and owls by the visual field marks and vocalizations.

In this lecture, you’ll learn about the biology, classification, migration, flight characteristics, and predatory adaptations of locally occurring birds-of-prey. Information about both year-round residents and seasonally overwintering raptors are included.

In addition to the lecture, you can sign up separately to join on a walking raptor field trip at the SLO Botanical Garden and El Chorro Regional Park (2 hours) on March 8th immediately following the lecture. Or, sign up for a longer carpooling raptor and bird search field trip around Morro Bay on March 9th to some of Steve’s favorite locations.

Members will receive $5 off at registration with code: member5

About your instructor:

Steve attended college at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and received a Master’s degree in Field Biology and a Life Sciences Secondary Teaching Credential. He taught high school biology and earth sciences for several years, has taught natural history courses for Cuesta College Community Programs more than 25 years, and he works as a naturalist instructor at a local residential outdoor school program called Camp KEEP (Kern Environmental Education Program), attended by more than 3,000 6th grade students each school year.

He served on the committee that published the book “Wildflowers of San Luis Obispo” and the eBook “Plants of the Carrizo Plain”.  Steve authored the book entitled “The Peregrine Falcons of Morro Rock – A 50-year History”, available at Amazon.com.  He is past-President of Morro Coast Audubon Society and is the Volunteer Coordinator of the Hi Mountain Lookout Project (www.facebook.com/condorlookout), a restored fire lookout in Los Padres National Forest where volunteers and college interns radiotrack the movements of California Condors and conduct biological field research projects. He has been a speaker and field trip leader for the Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival each year since its inception more than 25 years ago.

Steve enjoys kayaking, running, biking, hiking, playing basketball, and wildlife and landscape photography (photos at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12571965@N07