Seminar: Ducks & Other Swimming Birds

Earlier in fall, we hosted a seminar on our local shorebirds – the sandpipers, plovers, and so on that run along the shore or wade in the shallows. Now, as we move into winter, we’ll be covering the swimming birds: ducks, geese, swans, grebes, and a smattering of rails and cormorants. If you’d like to learn how to see and identify more birds in local ponds and wetlands this winter, this is the talk for you.

In this in-store presentation, we’ll present an overview of our different waterbird families (what is a grebe anyways?), give some helpful tips for identification, then move on to a brisk tour of about 25 of our most notable local ducks and other swimming waterbirds, discussing life history highlights, local sites in which to find them, and how to identify the potentially tricky ones.

This free presentation at Wild Birds Unlimited of Novato will begin at 10 AM on Sunday, November 18 and last about 45 minutes, with time for questions afterwards. If you would like to attend, please reserve your space by choosing your number of attendees and clicking “Confirm RSVP” above. 

Header image: common mergansers by Doug Greenberg.