Photo: Green-winged Teals, James Fatemi/Audubon Photography Awards

When: Thursday, January 16, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Where: Virtual
Fee: FREE, but registration is required

Green-winged Teals, James Fatemi/Audubon Photography Awards (ocal high school student who won Honorable Mention in National Audubon Photography Contest, 2023)

Join Greg Butcher, ASNV board member and retired migratory species coordinator for the U.S. Forest Service International Programs, for an introduction to waterfowl identification. Get to know many of the species that winter in the open waters of our region. You’ll learn how to tell a Bufflehead from a Hooded Merganser, and, you’ll learn the features (and hear the call) of the beautiful Tundra Swans that winter in Northern Virginia. Strategies will include identification by shape and color pattern.

Board member Tom Wood will run a Kahoot quiz at the end of the program to test your identification skills, and the winner will get a hat with our new logo!

This event will be helpful for those participating in the Winter Waterfowl Count on February 8-9 but is open to anyone who would like to know how to identify winter waterfowl! This annual count studies population change among wintering Waterfowl species along the Potomac River. Sign up for the count here.

Join the Waterfowl Field Trip on January 18 at Occoquan Bay NWR - RSVP required. Sign up here.

Some good locations to see waterfowl in NoVa are Huntley Meadows, Dyke Marsh and Mason Neck State Park.