Bitterroot Audubon’s January Program: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding and Beyond, with Sneed B. Collard III

Join Bitterroot Audubon as acclaimed author Sneed B. Collard III recounts the entertaining adventures behind his humorous, award-winning memoir Warblers and Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding (Mountaineers, 2018) and other bird books and articles. Along the way, participants will travel to some of America’s best birding hotspots as well as to South America, the Galápagos, and the Middle East. He’ll also recall his son’s and his “accidental Big Years” of 2022 featuring Pinky, America’s most famous flamingo.

Sneed has written more than ninety books for young people including Beaks!; Fire Birds—Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests; Woodpeckers—Drilling Holes and Bagging Bugs; Waiting for a Warbler; and his newest picture book, Border Crossings. Sneed is a popular, award-winning speaker and has spoken at numerous birding festivals and events. To learn more, visit his websites www.sneedbcollardiii.com and www.FatherSonBirding.com. Sneed lives in Missoula.

If you would like to read some of Sneed’s work before the program, we suggest Warblers and Woodpeckers (available at

https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/warblers-and-woodpeckers-a-father-son-big-year-of-birding).

For a sample of his children’s books, we suggest Woodpeckers; Fire Birds; and Birds of Every Color (available at 

https://mountain-press.com/collections/collard-sneed-b-iii)

This is a Zoom-only program. Please register in advance, before 5 p.m. on January 16^th. 

Registration link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYofuqopzkvE9DqwSdBWfYvvxwgLh74adMX