Holiday Potluck and Speaker Series —
Thursday, December 11, 5:30 PM, Unitarian Church, 6300 A Street,
and also via YouTube link: https://youtube.com/live/E84QbSzNuoo?feature=share
Winter Birding &
the Importance of
Community Science
with Jason the "Birdnerd" St. Sauver
I came to Audubon in 2013 after a ten-year career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Starting at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center and joining Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center staff in 2015, St. Sauver has been the lead Education staff at Spring Creek creating programs for all ages and audiences, like the international, Let’s Go Birding Together and more recently, the Wildlife Explorers curriculum for middle and high school-aged students. Through Wildlife Explorers, students experience field surveys as an Ornithologist, Botanist, and Entomologist on field trips and through after-school programming. He is also co-creator of community events like Return of the Thunderbirds, SparrowFest, and Wachiska’s own Tour the Wild Side.
Originally from South Dakota, “the Birdnerd” grew up loving not only birds, but the outdoors. He credits his Grandmother for introducing him to his spark bird, the Dark-eyed Junco. Jason has an over 10 year career in music and theatre before his environmental education work, performing in such off-off-Broadway musicals as Footloose and writing and directing Dracularama. St. Sauver was the 2018 winner of Audubon’s Chotzen Educator of the Year award and is locally known as a
birding-by-ear expert. Along with birds, he loves travel, reading, and horror films.
Join Jason “the Birdnerd” St. Sauver, Sr. Education Manager at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, to learn about some of your favorite local winter resident and migratory birds like woodpeckers, creepers, longspurs, and snow buntings.
Explore what birds may be around your feeders this winter and fun facts about them and let’s connect all of our love of birds to the importance of community science like the Christmas Bird Count, Great Backyard Bird Count, and using eBird and Merlin.
Please bring your questions and requests for bird sounds and trivia to our holiday potluck and Speaker Series and join Wachiska on Thursday, October 9 at 7:00 PM at Lincoln’s Unitarian Church, 6300 A Street. This will also be live-streamed on YouTube at: https://youtube.com/live/E84QbSzNuoo?feature=share
No registration needed. Check Wachiska’s website for past programs.
Prairie Pines Partners Event
DECEMBER 21 Winter Solstice Hike. 1PM-3PM.
Free Join Nebraska Master Naturalists on a hike as we experience the winter woods and celebrate solstice. Meet at the Visitor’s Center, walk the woods and grasslands and discover the subtle signs of nature’s adaptations to the winter season. Come, bundle up, escape cabin fever, stretch your legs and enjoy some crisp air.
Following the hike, you are invited to join us indoors for hot chocolate, cider and sweet delights.
Open to all ages. Check PrairiePines.org for more info!