All around our rivers and lakes, gulls enjoy congregating to fish and roost, and birders enjoy trying to figure them out. This program will cover the basics: WHICH gulls to look for, WHEN they occur, and HOW to identify them by species and by age. It will emphasize the common ones first and then work in a few of the scarcer ones that show up in small numbers at St. Louis. The really rare ones will be covered at some point in “GULLS, PART II.”
Speaker Bio: Bill Rowe has taught birding classes at the Missouri Botanical Garden for 30 years, has been a member of the Missouri Bird Records Committee for 25 years, and has led birding tours to many parts of North America. He is a St. Louis Audubon field trip leader and Board member and has been a co-presenter of previous gull workshops in the Riverlands area. Most of his professional life was spent at Thomas Jefferson School, St. Louis, as teacher and administrator, including 11 years as Head of School. He and Margaret live in Shrewsbury, and their three children and two grandchildren are all nearby.
