Backyard Bird Identification – Beyond the Feeder

Join local birder Taylor Long to learn more about backyard birds in Northwest Arkansas.

We can all appreciate the beauty of birds that visit our feeders like American Goldfinch, Northern Cardinal, and Blue Jay, but what about the species that don't come to feeders? Northwest Arkansas hosts more than 300 different bird species throughout the year, and finding many of them requires looking "beyond the feeder". In this presentation, local birder Taylor Long will highlight a handful of the most common local backyard birds that don't readily visit feeders, covering how to identify them, where to look for them and what makes each one so fascinating. Participants are invited to attend a bird walk the following morning in The Ramble where we'll try to find birds highlighted in the presentation.

Taylor Long lives in Fayetteville, where he works remotely as an Interface Designer for eBird at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. An avid birder and appreciator of nature across Northwest Arkansas, he also volunteers as the Field Trip Coordinator for the Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society and as an eBird Data Quality Reviewer for the state of Arkansas.

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