Hi folks, I'm a new user and was prompted to introduce myself so stopping here to say hello! I live in the Denver metro area in Colorado, USA and have been birding for coming up on 5 years now. I started in 2020 during COVID (as so many did) but really got obsessed at the tail end of 2022. Since then I've been trained as a field trip leader and bird ambassador for Denver Audubon and soon will also be leading field trips for Denver Field Ornithologists. Both are great groups if you want to get out birding around Denver!
My education background and current work are also in Spanish so if anyone wants to chat about bird names in Spanish or organizing Spanish birding trips in the US hit me up! I'm currently working my way through the list of all the birds of Peru published by the Unión de Ornitólogos del Perú and adding the common names as regional Peruvian names in iNaturalist. I'm hoping that this effort will help improve local participation in iNat in Peru, or at least make it so a bit more of the diversity of Spanish regional names is recorded there.
Cheers! See you all around on here
Bonus: my favorite photo I've ever taken out birding (of one of my favorite birds!)
American Kestrel; Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Perú 🇵🇪
My education background and current work are also in Spanish so if anyone wants to chat about bird names in Spanish or organizing Spanish birding trips in the US hit me up! I'm currently working my way through the list of all the birds of Peru published by the Unión de Ornitólogos del Perú and adding the common names as regional Peruvian names in iNaturalist. I'm hoping that this effort will help improve local participation in iNat in Peru, or at least make it so a bit more of the diversity of Spanish regional names is recorded there.
Cheers! See you all around on here
Bonus: my favorite photo I've ever taken out birding (of one of my favorite birds!)
American Kestrel; Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Perú 🇵🇪
