Take a break from the busy holiday season and enjoy a fun talk on birds and their place in cultural history with naturalist and writer Cindy Crosby. Birds have influenced classical and pop music, art, and poetry, and been the subject of many classic (and not so classic!) books and poems, as well as appearing in folklore and myths.
No matter what your connection or interest in birds, from beginner to expert, you’ll have a good time enjoying cookies as you listen to bird-themed tunes, discuss books and literature about birds, appreciate gorgeous images of bird-themed artwork, and marvel over how birds make our world more beautiful and interesting.
This program meets in person at the Arboretum.
Instructor: Cindy Crosby, author and naturalist
Age: 16 and older
Course number: N259
Instructor
Cindy Crosby, author and naturalist
Cindy Crosby is the author, compiler, or contributor to more than 20 books, including The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction, co-author of Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit and author of Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural and Cultural History (Northwestern University Press, 2020). She is a prairie steward at the Schulenberg Prairie and Nachusa Grasslands, and she coordinates dragonfly monitoring programs at both sites. She earned a master’s degree in natural resources at University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. She blogs each week at Tuesdays in the Tallgrass, and she teaches natural history and trains naturalists in the Chicago region. Find out more on her website.
What to Know
This program meets indoors.
Program Schedule
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Cudahy Room, Administration and Research Center (Parking Lot 1), East Side
