PLEASE NOTE: THIS TRIP IS SOLD OUT AND THE WAITLIST IS FULL.
Leader: Dr. Megan Jones Patterson
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023*; 6am-noon (opportunity to leave early)
Fees: $50 per person, breakfast included
Limited to 8 people, location is 15 miles north of Boulder
Registration: Please see How to Register for an Interludes Trip to register.
Join ornithologist Dr. Megan Jones Patterson to learn about and participate in songbird banding at one of the longest running migratory bird banding stations in Colorado at the limited access Allegra Collister Nature Preserve north of Boulder. This property is privately owned and managed under a conservation easement with Boulder County. You will meet the group at sunrise and walk into the banding station (~½ mile).
At the banding station, you will learn about the history of bird banding and why it continues to be important to our understanding of bird populations and movements. You will also get to accompany banders to the mist nets used to capture birds, watch the banding process, and help in the release of the birds. A picnic breakfast and coffee/tea will be provided at the banding station.
All participants must be comfortable walking over relatively level but uneven terrain on narrow trails. Encounters with cows, barbed wire, and ticks are possible.
*Bird banding is weather dependant. If we are unable to band on May 10th, the trip will be rescheduled for Friday May 12 (or a subsequent Monday, Wednesday, or Friday in May if the weather really isn’t cooperative).
This trip is part of the Interludes with Nature field trip series. These trips are led by the area’s most knowledgeable birders and naturalists who take participants to places they wouldn’t often get to see. Monies raised by this important fundraising tool send our Teen Naturalists to birding camps.