Friday Keynote Features
David Allen Sibley
Friday evening, October 18, Buffet supper
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Sun City Center
Fee: $40; reserve your spot on https://fbnfestival.regfox.com/florida-birding-nature-festival-2024
The Psychology of Bird Identification
In this lecture, illustrated with photos, drawings, and a few tests, David talks about how we perceive the world around us, and how our brains both help and hinder our efforts at bird identification. Suggestion: Bring your Sibley guides with you for signing!
David Allen Sibley is the author and illustrator of the series of successful guides to nature that bear his name, including the New York Times bestseller The Sibley Guide to Birds. He has contributed art and articles to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, BirdWatching, and North American Birds, and wrote an illustrated a syndicated column for The New York Times. He is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding Association and the Linnaean Society of New York’s Eisenmann Medal. He lives in Deerfield, MA.
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