Admission:

Event: $10.00 | Members & Children: Free

Event & Dinner*: $41.95

*Extend your time with us and enjoy a meal in our historic, lakeside Dining Hall. Click below to register for this event and see the option to buy a ticket “with Meal.” Advance registration is required to add a meal as space is limited and subject to availability.

Birdsong is more than music, it’s data. In this presentation, Wil Hershberger introduces the tools and techniques that turn birdwatching into meaningful scientific contribution. Learn how to use the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird app to track your observations, how those records are used in bird research and conservation efforts, and how participants can upload photos and audio recordings to the Macaulay Library. The program will also include a brief overview of recording bird sounds, giving attendees practical ways to listen more closely and participate in citizen science.

Wil Hershberger

Has been an avid naturalist most of his life. After becoming an accomplished and well-respected birder, he rekindled the photography skills he had first learned in his dad’s basement darkroom. Today his photography has become an extension of his passion for the natural world. Wil is also an accomplished nature sounds recordist with over 6,000 recordings, including birds and bugs, archived at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library.  Through his photography and sound recordings, he hopes to instill in others the desire to protect and save these sacred natural treasures.