Event: Program: Coffee Farms and Bird Conservation

Date: Tuesday October 11, 2016

Time: 7:00 PM

Join John Sterling for a presentation on bird conservation in coffee plantations at the Florence Douglas Senior Center at 333 Amador Street in Vallejo. (NSAS Event)

Details:

John Sterling will be presenting some of his Smithsonian research supporting the Bird-Friendly Coffee movement. He will discuss why some coffee farms are better than others for birds, why good coffee farms are critical for conservation, and will illustrate his talk with photos of birds from coffee farms in Latin America, the Philippines and Sumatra.

John has been a very active birder since 1971 and a professional wildlife biologist since 1981. He has traveled extensively throughout California learning about local bird distribution and is working on a book on the Central Valley's avifauna. He has traveled internationally as a guide and ornithologist for many institutions including projects as a Smithsonian ornithologist to Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Sumatra, the Philippines, Canada and Russia. John currently has his own company specializing in tours, birding classes, research and environmental consulting. His website is www.sterlingbirds.com

submitted on August 05, 2016, at 05:12 PM PST

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