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BirdWalks<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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May 28th: 7:00 PM @ Hal Holmes<\/strong>
Raptors of Kittitas County<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Dan Reiff, PhD<\/em><\/em><\/em>
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Dr. Dan is a clinician, author and videographer who has studied birds for the last 18 years.\u00a0He grew up in Puyallup, Washington, when it was a small town, surrounded by daffodil, tulip, strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry farms. He has a long history of fly fishing for trout and steelhead.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is very fond of Kittitas County, including the people, birds and environments. He has degrees in Environmental sciences (BS), Public health (MPH), and Clinical psychology (PhD) and was trained as a clinician and scientist in Clinical psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Dan has focused his research efforts on the behavior of several species of birds and has captured well over 300 TB of video focused bird behavior. This includes diurnal, crepuscular and nocturnal observations and filming. Dr. Dan has a special research interest in the stereotypical and unique behaviors of owls and nightjars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He has spent many enjoyable hours doing video and audio recordings focused on the behaviors of the numerous in several locations and generations over the last 10-16 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan\u2019s presentation will be video focused on the behaviors of the Common Poorwill and the Common Nighthawk. He will also share stories of his several hundreds of hours of research experiences filming in very low light and darkness, including encounters with animals that are active during the night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Common Poorwill photo by Dan Reiff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 28th: 7:00 PM @ Hal HolmesRaptors of Kittitas County Presented by Dan Reiff, PhD\u00a0 Dr. Dan is a clinician, author and videographer who has studied birds for the last 18 years.\u00a0He grew up in Puyallup, Washington, when it was a small town, surrounded by daffodil, tulip, strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry farms. He has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-942","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kittitasaudubon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kittitasaudubon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kittitasaudubon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kittitasaudubon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kittitasaudubon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/kittitasaudubon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/kittitasaudubon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/942\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kittitasaudubon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}