Event: NSAS February Meeting and Speaker Series Presents: A Birdie Big Year: Elevating Women Birders with Tiffany Kersten

Date: Thursday February 09, 2023

Time: 7:00 PM

Tiffany Kersten didn't set out to do a big year, but after a series of unanticipated and serendipitous events, she suddenly found herself amidst one. As a sexual assault survivor, she spent 2021 traveling to all corners of the Lower 48 States, tallying birds and gifting personal safety alarms to women she met along the way. Her goal was to see 700 species, and to raise awareness of women's safety in the outdoors. Tiffany ended up surpassing her goal and setting a new Lower 48 Big Year record of 726. In her presentation, Tiffany will lead us through the fear,  empowerment, struggles and healing that all played vital roles in the personal growth she experienced on this wild adventure. 

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About the Presenter: Tiffany Kersten is a Wisconsin native, turned Texan by way of New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Hawaii. She holds a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology from Northland College, and has spent over a decade as an environmental educator, teaching about raptor identification and migration with the Cape May Bird Observatory, monitoring shorebirds on Cape Cod, banding Honeycreepers in Hawaii, and finally landing in South Texas where she worked at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, then Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center, and managed the McAllen Nature Center, before founding her own company, Nature Ninja Birding Tours.

This meeting will be a hybrid, in-person and zoom meeting, held on Thursday, February 9th at 7:00 p.m. Members who are able to attend February's meeting will come to a location to be determined. Those viewing from afar or unable to travel in the evening can tune in via Zoom.

Napa Solano Audubon Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: NSAS February's Meeting and Speaker Series Presents: A Birdie Big Year: Elevating Women Birders with Tiffany Kersten 2-9-23
Time: Feb 9, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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