York County Audubon is offering a two-part Gull ID Workshop with Derek Lovitch on Feb. 8-9 to help participants get started on unraveling the mysteries of gull identification.
Lovitch, with his wife Jeannette, owns and operates Wild Bird Supply in Freeport. He’s the author of “How to Be a Better Birder.”
Part one of the workshop, on Saturday, Feb. 8, will be indoors at the Mather Auditorium of the Wells Reserve from 2-4 p.m. Participants will start with the basics of gull identification, and then move on to more complicated aspects of identification.
On Sunday, Feb. 9, the group will meet in Portland at the Back Cove parking lot to carpool around the area and apply what they’ve learned, looking for herring, ring-billed and great black-backed, and then seek out Iceland and glaucous.
There is a $10 fee to participate. Register by calling Pat Moynahan at 284-5487 or by signing up on the website, www.yorkcountyaudubon.org.
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