Monday, September 21st, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Keith Hansen

For the Love of Birds and the Joy of Birding

Join Keith Hansen for a lively dive into what inspired him to take up illustrating birds and eventually to become a bird book author. He has recently finished his 13th and 14th books entitled Hansen’s Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada and The Birds of Point Reyes.

Keith, who comes from an artistic family, has been looking at birds from the age of 10 and illustrating them since the 12th grade. Growing up, he and his older brother Rob birded every spare moment they could, first in the woods of Maryland, before moving to Fresno, California in 1970. He did work at Point Reyes Bird Observatory’s Palomarin Field Station and then spent 9 years on the SE Farallon Island, where he banded, photographed and studied hundreds of birds up close. He has traveled extensively through the New World Tropics including Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, the Amazon, and the Galapagos, where he filmed 100s of species for his artwork. His current project is illustrating all the birds of N. America for an app called FLOCK.

Come and join us!

Talk begins at 7pm