Spring Field Ornithology

Learn to identify many of the birds of the Cayuga Lake area in our eight-week spring birding course that runs from March 26th to May 18th, 2008. You can sign up for the lectures, field trips, or BOTH sections!

To view pictures taken during this year's annual overnight trip to Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, please click HERE.
To view pictures taken during this year's annual overnight trip to New Jersey, please click HERE.

Watch the video below for a "sneak peek" into the course!

Spring Field Ornithology 2008 is sponsored by:

2712 North Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-257-3000 Web: http://www.cayugalandscape.com	159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-266-7425 Web: http://www.wbuny.com
Students of SFO 2008 will be provided with extra "perks" from both of these very generous course sponsors!

The year 2008 marks the 31st year of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's local annual Spring Field Ornithology course!

Dr. Steve Kress, Vice President for Bird Conservation for the National Audubon Society, along with other Lab Staff, hosts Wednesday evening lectures on topics such as "How to identify birds and use binoculars," "Bird song and courtship," "Gardening for birds," "Eggs & Nests," and "Neotropical songbird conservation." Lectures regularly feature color slides, audio recordings, and video presentations.

Weekend field trips visit habitats like Sapsucker Woods, Dryden Lake, Derby Hill, Braddock Bay, and Cornell University's Arnot Forest. For an additional cost, students may choose to participate in one or both special overnight birding extravaganzas to the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in Seneca Falls, NY, and an overnight bus trip to the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (one of the premiere birding locales in the East) in Oceanville, NJ, and Cape May, NJ.

Enrollment (ages 12 and up) is limited, as the course is very popular. Students may be able to take the course for credit as independent study. Please obtain approval from your advisor prior to enrolling, and be sure to let the SFO staff know that you are taking the course for credit when you enroll.

Please feel free to contact Course Coordinator Terry Mingle (ph.# 607-254-2452) or call the Lab (toll-free at ph.# 800-843-2473) for the latest information regarding the course.

Visit links below to access archived articles about SFO and Steve Kress, as published in the WINTER 2007 issue of the Lab's Newsletter, Birdscope:

SFO Article: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Publications/Birdscope/Winter2007/sfo_course.html

Steve Kress Article: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Publications/Birdscope/Winter2007/steve_kress.html

Visit the PROJECT PUFFIN web site to see what Steve does every summer, after SFO ends - be sure to visit the PUFFIN CAM pages (viewing the cam during the breeding season will require that you have RealPlayer installed on your computer):

http://www.projectpuffin.org