Prepare to be captivated by this program and our speaker, Boulder’s own Steve Jones! Join Boulder County Audubon Society to learn about “upland” nesting shorebirds and wading birds, and the unique Nebraska Sandhills area.

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Piping Plover

Photo by Steve Jones

It seems strange, but many familiar shore and wading birds don't nest by the ocean at all. These "upland" shorebirds and waders lay their eggs in the soft grasses of some of our most verdant prairies, or sometimes on bare sand flanked by tufts of grass. We'll journey to the Nebraska Sandhills to explore the lives of piping plovers, long-billed curlews, marbled godwits, willets, upland sandpipers, black-necked stilts, white-faced ibis and several more. Along the way, we will explore why so many of these species are thriving in this oasis on the western plains.

Learn more about the Nebraska Sandhills here.

American Avocets, photo by Steve Jones

Steve Jones

In a field of golden banner.

Steve Jones is author of Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky; The Last Prairie; and Owls of Boulder County. He is co-author of The Shortgrass Prairie, the Peterson Field Guide to the North American Prairie, Colorado Nature Almanac, Wild Boulder County, and Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range. His consulting work includes more than three-dozen breeding bird and resource inventories for city, county, and state open space and wildlife programs. He has led field trips and taught nature classes for 40 years, and he taught in the Boulder Valley Public Schools, mostly part-time, for 33 years. He received a Masters degree in U.S. social and environmental history from Boston University and a Masters in secondary teaching from Stanford.

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