The Marion County Conservation Department is hosting a Building Better Birders and Citizen Scientists Workshop at the Cordova Park office building, 1378 Highway G28, Otley on Wednesday, June 7. The program is geared for families and is a come and go event.

For the past two years, Kelly McKay, along with Clinton County Conservation and Nahant Marsh Education Center have been presenting a program designed to create a citizenry with better bird identification skills and to promote participants getting involved with local citizen science projects.  

The schedule starts June 7 with a bird hike on the Karr Trail from 7 a.m. until 10 a.m. There will be a break and questions from 10 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. From 10:30 a.m. until noon is an Upland Forest Birds/powerpoint presentation. From noon until 1 p.m. lunch will be served.

Funding for the workshop was provided by Resource Enhancement and Protection-Conservation Education Program.

The official workshop website is https://buildingbetterbirders.com