Monthly Presentations

Burrowing Owl. Photo by Lou Staunton/Audubon Photography Awards.

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Monthly Programs

We host a public program on a bird-related topic nine months of the year. We often arrange to have local birders share their favorite birding places or experiences, biologists talk about their research, and natural resource professionals update us on wildlife and land management strategies.

**Tuesday, October 20, 6:15 pm at Hillcrest Library**
Learn about why grouse are critical for sustaining the "Grub Hubs" of nature and how to grow grub that benefits grouse, raptors, and people. Jennifer will introduce you to the interesting lives of grouse from Idaho (sage-grouse), Iceland (rock ptarmigan), and Norway (capercaillie). She will describe the unique role grouse play as both prey for hungry predators and as predators of clever plants. She will finish with a cautionary tale of the invisible famine that climate and human decisions could create for grouse and invite you to help grow the right grub for grouse.
**About Jennifer Forbey:**
Jennifer Forbey holds a Ph.D. in Biology and has served as a faculty member at Boise State University since 2008 with previous positions in the pharmaceutical industry, at a predominantly undergraduate institution, and internationally. She integrates chemistry, physiology, animal behavior, ecology, and remote sensing to predict mechanisms and consequences of the chemical interactions between plants and vertebrate herbivores from the cells, to individual organisms, to landscapes. Her research employs a combination of laboratory and field-based approaches to understand, predict, and manage interacting plants and vertebrate herbivores in ways that benefit nature and people. She is dedicated to establishing creative partnerships and institutional processes that create opportunities for everyone, everywhere to participate in scientific discovery and translation of those discoveries into benefits for society.

**This program is free and open to everyone.**

Burrowing Owl bird — Don’t be shy!

If there is a particular topic you are interested in learning more about, or would even like to give a presentation, please contact us at **info@goldeneagleaudubon.org**
*Burrowing Owl. Photo by Mick Thompson.*

Pileated Woodpeckers by Jan Nichols/Audubon Photography Awards

Black-capped Chickadee by Linda Scher/Audubon Photography Awards

Watch Past Presentations and Classes

May 2025

Prevent Window Collisions with American Bird Conservancy

January 2025

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronical of Vanished Birds with Christopher Cokinos, author

July 2024

Discover the Prairie Falcon with Zoe Bonerbo, BSU Raptor Researcher

June 2024

The State of the Great Salt Lake with Katie Newburn, Education & Outreach Director for FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake

May 2024

Camas National Wildlife Refuge with Tim Reynolds from Friends of Camas NWR and Lucian Davis, Intermountain Bird Observatory Lead Bander at Camas NWR