Sunday, October 30 at 5 pm

Migratory birds are international citizens who know no borders.  In the Methow, our avian migrants knit us together with landscapes as distant and exotic as the high arctic tundra and the pampas of South America.  As bird watchers, we may think of all the birds we see here, like the colorful Bullock’s Oriole or the wintering Snow Bunting as “ours.” But many of these species are with us for only a few weeks of the year, spending the balance of their lives in other parts of the Western Hemisphere. Don will explore the fascinating natural phenomena of bird migration, tying in what we know—or can guess—about the seasonal movements of “our” migrating feathered friends.

Birds have been a common theme in Don McIvor’s career. Don received his MS based on his research on Sandhill Cranes in Utah and Wyoming. He has conducted breeding bird surveys on Utah’s Wasatch Plateau and the north slope of the Uinta Mountains. Don spent six years as the Nevada Director of Bird Conservation for Audubon and three years as the Science Coordinator for Audubon Washington. Don has written extensively on the topic of birds, including two books, Birding Utah (Falcon Press) and Nevada’s Important Bird Areas (Nevada Audubon). He teaches Ornithology at Wenatchee Valley College – Omak.