Past Programs

Whenever possible, DFO records monthly programs (and occasionally a Better Birding Skills workshop) and makes the recording available here. If the program was recorded, a video icon appears next to the program title. Click the icon to view the program. Please note that some presenters do not allow their programs to be recorded and some presenters only allow DFO to share the recording for a limited time period. However, a review of each monthly program can always be found in the next issue of The Lark Bunting. Also be sure to check out Bird Bombs which are short helpful bursts of ID information.
  • play DFO Presents: the American Dipper, a Magical Mountain Friend
    Nov 25 2024   Jessie Reese
  • play DFO Presents: Crossbills,the Finch Research Network, and the new Stokes Guide to Finches
    Oct 28 2024   Matthew A. Young
  • Refuge Day at the RM Arsenal
    Sep 28 2024  
  • play DFO Presents: The State of Birding, Version 2024.9
    Sep 23 2024   Ted Floyd
  • play The Lonesome Whip-poor-will: The Untold Story of America's Most Iconic Bird
    Apr 29 2024   Jared Del Rosso
  • Small Mountain Owls of Colorado
    Mar 25 2024   Scott Rashid
  • play Gardening on the Wild Side
    Feb 26 2024   Jim Tolstrup
  • play Hawk Watch at Dinosaur Ridge: Community Science at Work
    Feb 21 2024   David Hill
  • play Birding the Lower Rio Grande Valley: Top Hotspots and More
    Jan 22 2024   Tammy Bulow
  • play Wildlife, Wetlands and the Everglades
    Nov 27 2023   Lauren Jonaitis and Stephanie Clements
  • play Water Flows Together: Opportunities for Birds and People in 2023
    Oct 23 2023   Abby Burk, Audubon Rockies
  • Owls of Northern Colorado
    Sep 18 2023   Scott Rashid
  • play Bluebird Seasons: Witnessing Climate Change in My Piece of the Wild
    Aug 28 2023   Mary Taylor Young
  • play Birdsong and Habitats: Updates from DFO-funded Avian Research
    Apr 24 2023   Leah Crenshaw and Olivia Taylor
  • play How Historical Redlining Led Denver's Cooper's Hawks to Live Where They Do
    Mar 27 2023   Alyssa Davidge
  • play Hawks on the Wing: seeing beyond the field marks with flight based identification
    Mar 1 2023   Josh Haas
  • play Greater Sage Grouse: Largest Conservation Effort in US History
    Feb 27 2023   Daly Edmunds
  • play Hawk Watch at Dinosaur Ridge: Community Science at Work
    Feb 22 2023   David Hill
  • play Cranes: Ambassadors for Conservation
    Jan 23 2023   Rich Beilfuss
  • play Monthly Program: Hawk Watch 2022: Looking Back and Forward
    Nov 28 2022   Emma Riley
  • play Monthly Program: Life History of the Best Tree in Our World
    Oct 24 2022   David Leatherman
  • play Hawks in Flight ID Skills
    Oct 12 2022   David Hill
  • play Monthly Program: Letting Go - Birding and Nature Study in the Age of Zoomers and Alphas
    Sep 26 2022   Ted Floyd
  • play BBS Workshop: Merlin Bird ID Workshop
    Sep 6 2022   Gregg Goodrich
  • play Monthly Program: The Best Bird Sounds You've Never Heard
    Aug 22 2022   Nathan Pieplow
  • play From House Wrens to Herons: updates from avian research
    Apr 25 2022   Multiple Presenters
  • play A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
    Mar 28 2022   Scott Weidensaul
  • Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls
    Feb 28 2022   Paul Bannick
  • play Birding Adventures in Australia's Northern Territory
    Jan 17 2022   Luke Paterson
  • play From "Crazy French" to Fisher's Peak: Colorado's newest state park
    Nov 22 2021   Crystal Dreiling
  • play An Evening with Nathan Pieplow
    Oct 25 2021   Nathan Pieplow
  • play A Big Green Year: my 2021 birding quest for the new Joe Roller Memorial Grant
    Sep 27 2021   Scott Somershoe
  • play Aves de Pura: birding in Costa Rica
    Aug 23 2021   Max Vindas
  • play Concepts for Learning Bird Song
    Apr 20 2021   Karen Drozda
  • play Go Birding in the Right Bad Weather
    Apr 19 2021   Bryan Guarente
  • play There and Back: Waterfowl and More
    Apr 5 2021   Richard Crossley
  • play Hummingbirds: Small Wonders
    Mar 22 2021   Sheri Williamson
  • play From Redpoll Plumage to Chickadee Poop: Insights into Avian Evolution
    Mar 8 2021   Cori Carver and Erik Funk
  • play The Birds and the Weeds: Monitoring the Ecological Response to the Chatfield Reallocation Project
    Feb 22 2021   Erin Bissell
  • play Have You Ever Thought About Birds' Ears? Evolution of the Avian Inner Ear
    Jan 25 2021   Garth Spellman
  • play Partners in Flight
    Dec 16 2020   Arvind Panjabi
  • play Coloring the Conservation Conversation
    Nov 23 2020   J. Drew Lanham
  • play 2-Wheelin' in the 5-Mile Radius
    Oct 26 2020   Chris Rurik
  • play Patterns of Bird Migration in North America
    Sep 21 2020   Kenn Kaufman
  • play eBird - Better Birding, Better Science
    Aug 24 2020   Gregg Goodrich/Chuck Hundertmark
  • play Reducing Bird/Window Collisions
    Jun 23 2020   Alex Halverson
  • THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED:Homogenization of Colorado Nesting Bird Populations
    Apr 27 2020   Steve Jones
  • THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED:Falcons: streamlined for speed
    Mar 23 2020   Perry Conway
  • play Wild Patagonia
    Feb 24 2020   Anyll Markovich
  • play The History and Future of Waterfowl Conservation
    Jan 27 2020   Matt Reddy
  • play I Like Shrikes (And More)
    Nov 25 2019   David Leatherman
  • play Birding Ecuador: the good, the bad and the lovely
    Oct 28 2019   Chuck Hundertmark
  • play There’s No Sex Like Insects
    Sep 23 2019   Mike Weissmann, PhD
  • play Wild in the City: birds and habitats in Denver Parks
    Aug 26 2019   Kelly Uhing and Vicki Vargas-Madrid
  • play The Secret Lives of Ducks
    Apr 22 2019   Nathan Pieplow
  • play Colorado Raptor Identification Challenges
    Mar 30 2019   Brian K. Wheeler
  • play Why We Bird
    Mar 25 2019   Ted Floyd
  • play Nebraska’s Swan Lakes
    Feb 25 2019   Steve Jones
  • play The Natural Wonders of Southeastern Colorado
    Jan 28 2019   Dave Leatherman
  • play Birding in Senegal and The Gambia - A Taste of West African Species
    Nov 5 2018   Bill Eden
  • Greater Sage Grouse
    Oct 1 2018   Seth Gallagher
  • play African Safaris
    Sep 4 2018   Jim Esten
  • A Flyway Approach to Shorebird Conservation
    Aug 6 2018   Brad Andres
  • play Bird Conservation in China
    Apr 16 2018   Francis Commercon
  • play End of the World: Capturing Siberia's Wildlife on Video
    Mar 19 2018   Nathan Pieplow
  • eBird and the Elephant's Child
    Feb 19 2018   Chris Wood, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
  • play Iconic Bird Imperiled: What's Happening to the Rosy Finches?
    Jan 29 2018   Garth Spellman, Curator of Ornithology, DMNS
  • Report on Flammulated Owl Research
    Nov 27 2017   Max Ciaglo
  • play Birds and Coffee
    Oct 23 2017   Gemara Gifford
  • play Barn Owls
    Sep 18 2017   Scott Rashid
  • play My EPIC Big Year
    Aug 28 2017   Christian Hagenlocher
  • play The Mystery Owl of Mexico
    Apr 25 2017   Nathan Pieplow
  • play "What The Book, Personal Observation and Wikileaks Say About The Fox Squirrel In Northern Colorado"
    Mar 27 2017   Dave Leatherman
  • play Appalachian Golden Eagles
    Feb 27 2017   Scott Somershoe
  • Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls
    Jan 23 2017   Paul Bannick
  • Birding in Cuba
    Nov 28 2016   John Drummond
  • play 200 Miles of Birding in 200 Years
    Oct 24 2016   Kevin Cook
  • Beyond Birding: Getting to Know Insects
    Sep 26 2016   Eric Eaton
  • Sandhills Serenade
    Aug 22 2016   Steve Jones
  • Hearing Evolution
    Apr 25 2016   Nathan Pieplow
  • play Double-crested Cormorant: Exemplar of Human/Wildlife Conflict
    Mar 28 2016   Chuck Hundertmark and Bob Stocker
  • A New Approach to Earbirding: Music Appreciation in Birds and its Intersection with Human Preferences
    Feb 22 2016   Garth Spellman, Curator of Ornithology, DMNS
  • Birding to the North Pole
    Jan 25 2016   Bill Schmoker
  • Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey
    Nov 23 2015   Kris Haglund and Liz Clancy
  • Conservation of North America’s Grassland Birds in the Chihuahuan Desert
    Oct 26 2015   Arvind Panjabi
  • Birding in the Posthuman Age
    Sep 28 2015   Ted Floyd
  • Paving the Way: Rocks in Rock Wren Nests
    Aug 24 2015   Nat Warning and Lauryn Benedict
  • play Listen to her sing!
    Apr 27 2015   Nathan Pieplow
  • Weather and Bird Migration
    Mar 23 2015   Bryan Guarente
  • The Latest on Black Swift Research
    Feb 23 2015   Carolyn Gunn
  • More on What Birds Eat'
    Jan 26 2015   Dave Leatherman
  • Rackets and Ruins: Birding the Yucatan in the Anthropocene
    Nov 24 2014   Chuck Hundertmark
  • The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
    Nov 5 2014   Joel Greenberg
  • Birding in Borneo
    Oct 27 2014   Bill Eden
  • Bird Sounds: From the Beautiful to the Bizarre
    Oct 21 2014   Greg Budney
  • Photographing Our Colorado Birds
    Sep 22 2014   Glenn Walbek
  • The Beautiful World of the Birds-of-Paradise
    Sep 11 2014   Dr. Edwin Scholes
  • Birds of Japan
    Aug 25 2014   Bob Shade
  • Five Audio IDs Every Colorado Birder Should Know
    Apr 28 2014   Nathan Pieplow
  • Secrets of Boulder County Revealed At Last
    Mar 24 2014   Ted Floyd
  • Corvid Seed Dispersal
    Feb 24 2014   Diana Tomback
  • The Passion and the Payoff: Why We Band Birds and What We Are Learning
    Jan 27 2014   Meredith McBurney
  • Engaging Latinos Home and Abroad in Birding
    Nov 25 2013   Susan Bonfield
  • Wise Old Owls: Are Flammulated Owls Sentinels of Environmental Change?
    Oct 28 2013   Brian Linkhart
  • Report on Colorado Atlas II
    Sep 23 2013   Lynn Wickersham
  • Full Chase Mode: My 2011 Big Year
    Aug 26 2013   John Vanderpoel