7:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Registrants will receive location details prior to the date.
$25 members/$30 non-members
Come join Stephen as he finds woodpeckers.
Stephen Shunk graduated from Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas, but he didn’t begin birding until 1989, after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Stephen started teaching about birds and their habitats in 1991, and he soon landed his first volunteer field job studying colonial waterbirds for the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory. Tired of living in the urban jungle, Stephen left California in 1997, eventually landing in the forests of central Oregon’s “Woodpecker Wonderland”—where eleven woodpecker species breed annually. He has spent the last 19 years studying woodpeckers in his backyard and beyond, and his long-awaited Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America hit the shelves in May 2016.
Stephen co-founded the East Cascades Bird Conservancy and served as its first President. He also co-founded the Oregon Birding Trails program and coordinated its flagship project, the Oregon Cascades Birding Trail. Stephen’s birding experience also includes a long list of field projects, from Black-backed Woodpecker research in northern California to 15 years as compiler for two Christmas Bird Counts. Through his company, Paradise Birding, Stephen leads natural history tours across the Western Hemisphere and beyond, and he has lectured on a diverse array of topics from North America to Southeastern Asia. Learn more about Stephen at www.ParadiseBirding.com or www.WoodpeckerWonderland.com.
Stephen Shunk will be leading a woodpecker workshop right after this class. Learn more and register for that event here.
