ONLINE CLASSES

Asynchronous course with optional, live office hours! Ornithology research methods (surveys, bird banding, behavior observations, nest monitoring), birding skills, outdoor labs, independent research project, college-prep scientific writing.

This live, online bird club is an opportunity for teen birders of all skill levels to connect with other students who also love birds and the outdoors. Each week will focus on a different avian taxonomic Family.

Asynchronous course with optional, live office hours! Go beyond naming avian anatomy by discovering the physiological functions and microstructures that allow birds to thrive in changing external environments across the globe.

Asynchronous course with optional, live office hours! Learn about feather types, structure, development, molt, visual appearance, and functions. Gain an understanding of flight aerodynamics and different avian flight strategies.

Asynchronous course with optional, live office hours! Learn about the science of systematics, methods scientists use to uncover the phylogeny of birds, and what drivers contribute to avian speciation and hybridization.

Work one-on-one with an experienced ecologist to design, conduct, analyze, and communicate an independent field biology research project.

Asynchronous course with optional, live office hours! Learn about fossils and studies showing how birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs, diversified, nearly went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, and then explosively diversified.