Birding Skills Workshops for Adults
presented by Sylvia Gallagher
Sea and Sage’s popular Birding Skills Workshops are conducted by Sylvia Gallagher who has been teaching birding for over thirty years. Each workshop meets once a week for three hours. The number of weeks varies with the material to be covered. Usually there are accompanying field trips, too. In order to accommodate all who want to sign up, multiple sections are offered.
Sylvia has prepared comprehensive sets of worksheets which accompany photos or sound clips. These worksheets call your attention to important identification features of the birds and also convey other useful information about each species — behavior, habitat, etc. Each week, we fill in the worksheets for a group of new birds and view a set of practice slides, or listen to a set of practice sounds covering the previous week’s birds.
Sylvia Gallagher’s Trip Diaries (1977 – 2011)
Learning More CA Bird Sounds – 2025
An Advanced Aural Workshop
The LEARNING MORE CALIFORNIA BIRD SOUNDS workshop is presented in Jan – March (perhaps longer), 2025.
Prerequisite: Learning CA Bird Sounds.
Birds of Southern California – (Oct – Dec 2025)
The Introductory Visual Workshop
The BIRDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Introductory Visual birding skills workshop is offered every fall.
LIST of Birds covered in this workshop.
This ten-week workshop presumes no previous knowledge of birds, but people who have been birding casually for awhile should also consider taking it. Four half-day field trips accompany it. All succeeding workshops build on this one.
The class covers the following groups:
— Birds of the neighborhoods
— Birds of playing fields and parking lots
— Birds of mudflats and shallow water
— Birds of the ocean shore
— Birds of the open country
— Birds of prey
— Birds of the streamside woodland
— Birds of lakes, ponds, and marshes
The 2025 class begins the 1st week in October and ends the middle week of December. The usual sections are Wednesday evening, Thursday morning, and Thursday evening
Enrollment for this workshop will begin in Sept, 2025
