Siouxland’s Challenging Bird Identifications

Our Siouxland home lies on the boundary of the Eastern Deciduous Forest and the Great Plains. As such, it is at the limit of some Eastern species and their Western counterparts. Think Eastern and Spotted Towhees, Eastern and Western Meadowlarks, Eastern and Western Wood Pewees and others. In these cases, the counterparts are difficult to distinguish and present special identification challenges.

The program will discuss some of these pairs and other Springtime identification problems.

Leading our discussion will be longtime, local birders Jerry Probst and Bill Huser, who began birding in the early 1970’s. Often birding together during their lunch break from the Sue Bee Honey laboratory, they found many of their first lifers at the nearby Floyd Cemetery. Both were charter members of the re-established Loess Hills Audubon Chapter in the early 1980’s and have each served the Chapter as president. Each has birded from coast to coast and from the Rio Grande to Hudson Bay.

The Loess Hills Audubon Society Board Meeting begins at 6:00 pm with our program beginning at 7:00 pm.

Everyone is welcome to attend both the board meeting and the free program!