Special Events

Friday, January 15         5:00-6:30 p.m.        Community Center

Enjoy wine and cheese and meet fellow birders in the Vendor Fair area.  Browse through the vendor booths featuring binoculars and scopes, books and CDs, native plants and garden art, watercolors and nature photography, wood carvings, jewelry, clothing and more! Keynote speaker Rosalie Winard will be on hand to sign her new book.

EVENING PROGRAM

Saturday, January 16     7:00-8:30 P.M.        Morro Bay High School

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Rosalie Winard "An Itinerant Photographer of the Wetlands"

Renowned photographer, author and environmentalist Rosalie Winard will take us on a photographic tour of wetland birds across our country.  Imagine banding 2,500 white pelican chicks in North Dakota, airboating on the Great Salt Lake amongst black-necked stilts and white-faced ibises, or sleeping in the middle of the Platte River surrounded by thousands of sandhill cranes.  With her camera, she has witnessed and documented avian adaptations to habitat encroachment and the sudden disappearance and re-emergence of bird colonies. Her talk will be accompanied with photographs from her award-winning book, Wild Birds of the American Wetlands, as well as images from her personal archives. You will be able to get a personally signed copy after the talk.  Put her name into YouTube.com for an introduction.  To see a collection of her work go to her website or visit the Bird Chautauqua.  

EVENING PROGRAM

Sunday, January 17    7:00-8:30 P.M.        Morro Bay High School

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:   Lars Tomanek:  "Weathering the Challenges of Climate Change -- From Birds to Gaia Local biologist and California State Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo faculty member Dr. Lars Tomanek will share with us the latest findings about the effects of global climate change on birds, people and the planet.  An engaging and enthusiastic speaker, Lars will also offer possible solutions for how birds and people should adapt to climate change.