Event: Saturday Banquet Keynote Speaker – Ted Floyd
Wings and Wildlife Festival of Southern Nevada
March 11-15, 2010
Laughlin, Nevada
Saturday Keynote Speaker: Ted Floyd
Ted Floyd is the Editor of Birding magazine, the flagship publication of the American Birding Association (ABA). Ted is an Instructor with the ABA’s Institute for Field Ornithology, and he is a frequent speaker at bird festivals and other birding events. He is a widely published author, with nearly 150 articles on birds and other topics in natural history. Ted is also the senior author of the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada (2007), the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America (2008), and a recently released beginner’s guide called Let’s Go Birding! (2009). A former resident of Nevada, Ted currently lives in Colorado with his wife Kei, daughter Hannah, and son Andrew.
Ted has broad interests in birding and ornithology, especially as they relate to conservation and management. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Colorado Field Ornithologists, and he recently served two terms on the Board of Directors for Western Field Ornithologists.
In recent years, Ted participated in the creation of Bird Conservation Plans for Partners in Flight and in the production of Eco-Regional Plans for The Nature Conservancy. He is currently involved in efforts to describe the nocturnal flight calls of migrating birds in western North America. In all his work, Ted is interested in promoting partnerships that depend on the active contributions of amateur field ornithologists.
Book Signing: Friday, March 12th, 5:00-6:00 pm
Banquet Keynote Speaker: Saturday, March 13th
Event: Friday Social & Saturday Banquet
February 3, 2010 by SNBWTP
Filed under 2010 Wings & Wildlife Festival, Events
Friday, March 12 – 5:00pm – 7:30pm
Join us in the Riverside Starview Room for socializing with your fellow festival goers. Wine and savory hors d’oeuvres in addition to a selection of wines and other non-alcoholic beverages will be available. View nature-based artwork of local artists and Sharon K. Schafer. Registration and informational booths will remain open during the event. 5:00pm – 6:00pm Ted Floyd will sign copies of his new book “Let’s Go Birding!” 6:30pm – 7:30pm Our Featured Artist, Sharon K. Schafer, renown Boulder City artist and naturalist. Skydance Studio’s Sharon K Schafer, will provide a truly magical experience through a multimedia program “The Art of Nature: Images from the Wildlands of Southern Nevada”. Discover the hidden beauty and grace of southern Nevada’s less traveled wilderness areas through Schafer’s paintings, sketches, and photographs.
Saturday, March 13 – 6:00pm – 8:30pm
A generous buffet banquet will precede the festival’s featured speaker, Ted Floyd. Ted Floyd’s banquet presentation will introduce us to the amazing world of birding at night. Ted’s talk will show us how to find birds at night. “Birding at Night: The Final Frontier” will open your mind to an entirely new conception of birding. Banquet feast will include entrees of beef, chicken and fish, along with salads, vegetables, and assorted cakes and pies. 7:00pm – 7:15pm A short presentation introducing the Southern Nevada Birding and Wildlife Trails Partnership. 7:15pm – 8:30pm Ted Floyd, author, editor of Birding magazine, and keynote speaker.
The Wine & Art Event (adults only) is included as part of paid registration. However, the cost of the banquet dinner is separate and your responsibility.
Event: Birding at Night – The Final Frontier
February 3, 2010 by SNBWTP
Filed under 2010 Wings & Wildlife Festival, Events
Ted Floyd’s banquet presentation will introduce us to the amazing world of birding at night. Many birds are surprisingly easy to observe at night. And it’s not just owls, but also lots of birds we often think of as being active only by day: thrushes and thrashers, warblers and sparrows, and many more. And the things they do at night are extraordinary.
Ted’s talk will show us how to find birds at night. It’s easy! Yet most people are unaware of the surprising “night life” of the bird world. Birding at night is an unexplored frontier for most of us. Ted will take us on a tour of the new frontier of nocturnal birding, and he will tell us how nocturnal birding is helping the cause of bird conservation.
“Birding at Night: The Final Frontier” will open your mind to an entirely new conception of birding. Warning: Going birding at night is thoroughly addictive. As a result of hearing and seeing Ted’s presentation, you may find yourself increasingly sleep-deprived, unable to stay in bed and indoors during the nighttime hours!
Banquet Keynote Speaker: Saturday, March 13th
Book Signing: Friday, March 12th, 5:00-6:00 pm
New from the ABA: Let’s Go Birding!
This guide for beginning birders is unlike any other on the market. Let’s Go Birding! is fun, fast, and friendly—designed for a beginner who wants to get up to speed quickly. Expert birder Ned Brinkley says, “Rich in wise counsel and understanding, this pithy text is part manifesto, part mantra, part mentor.”
The text encourages you to start birding right where you are—in the suburbs, in the big city, anywhere. Then, by focusing your attention on the most common birds in your area, you quickly start to acquire the skills of the expert birder. Topics covered include learning birdsong, keeping a field notebook, understanding behavior and ecology, and many others. Let’s Go Birding! also emphasizes conservation, education, and getting involved in the work of the American Birding Association.
- Text by Ted Floyd, Editor of Birding magazine and a prominent advocate of the “whole bird” approach to identification.
- Color photographs by Bill Schmoker, a bird photographer with numerous credits in major field guides and nature magazines.
This handsome guide features 48 full-color photos, and its 32 pages are packed full of information on everything you need to get started. Let’s Go Birding! is available for FREE for a limited time to new members who join the ABA and included with paid registration to the Wings and Wildlife Festival.
Event: Friday Evening Presentation – Sharon K. Schafer
Wings and Wildlife Festival of Southern Nevada
March 11-15, 2010
Laughlin, Nevada
Friday Evening Presentation: Sharon K. Schafer
Enjoy a stunning presentation, “The Art of Nature: Images from the Wildlands of Southern Nevada“, by Skydance Studio’s Sharon K. Schafer. Join this renowned Boulder City artist/naturalist as she presents a multimedia program designed to reveal Southern Nevada as a land of great contradictions and contrasts. Southern Nevada is at once austere, enchanting, and secretive. It is a land of mystery… a land of contrasts and contradictions… a land of great beauty and little rain.
A glimpse of the hidden beauty and grace of nature can change a viewer. By looking at these images the viewer comes away with a different perspective – no longer seeing the Public Lands of southern Nevada as a desert wasteland, but rather as a place of unparalleled natural beauty and diversity that is deserving of our care and concern.
Sharon K. Schafer is an accomplished fine artist and photographer. Through her photographs, paintings, and field sketches Schafer invites us to explore the stunning natural beauty of southern Nevada’s wild-lands.
Schafer now resides in Boulder City, Nevada where she owns and operates Skydance Studio. The studio specializes in beautifully artistic, yet scientifically accurate, images that appeal to the art collector and the environmental educator alike.
