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HawkWatch International founder Steve Hoffman will be in Salt Lake City this weekend for a raptor workshop, field trip and lecture.
The workshop, which costs $50 for HawkWatch members and $75 for others, will help birders learn to sharpen their raptor identification skills.
It begins with a Thursday classroom lecture focusing on the most common Western species. Participants will learn to look for plumage and color forms, age and sex variations, and subspecies, and will receive helpful behavioral clues to sharpen in-flight identification skills.
On Saturday, Hoffman and HawkWatch International biologists will put what was learned in the classroom in the field.
For registration and details, visit http://www.hawkwatch.org/raptorid. Locations will be provided at registration.
On Friday at 7 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m. at the HawkWatch International office, 2240 S. 900 East, Hoffman will give a presentation on the Veracruz River of Raptors program, another effort founded by HawkWatch International. The project is designed to monitor one of the largest raptor migrations in the world. Hoffman will be leading a fall birding tour of Veracruz through his new Merlin Birding and Nature Tours Company.