Date: 3/3/26 11:56 am From: Chuck & Lillian via groups.io <misclists...> Subject: [LACoBirds] SMBAS program Tues. 3/3/26, 7:30 pm: Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Passerines, with Diego Blanco
Birders:
Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society invites you to our monthly program tomorrow evening.
>Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Passerines, with Diego Blanco. >Zoom Evening Meeting, Tuesday, 3 March, 7:30 p.m. >Zoom waiting room opens 7:15 p.m.
>Diego Blanco of the Moore Laboratory of Ornithology will present an >Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Passerines. Topics will >include song bird behavior, evolution, and conservation. Diego will >describe the avian family tree and explain how songbirds have spread >across the globe and how they've changed over time.
>Before Diego Blanco became an Outreach and Research Assistant at the >Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College, he was a Los Angeles >area birder and naturalist. He enjoys hiking, camping, and >documenting biodiversity through photography and illustration. Diego >graduated from Cornell University in 2022 and has worked as an >administrative assistant at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild >Flowers and Native Plants where he taught field sketching and bird >identification classes. He spent the summer 2024 season as a point >count technician with the Klamath Bird Observatory conducting >surveys on bird populations and plant communities in Whiskeytown >National Recreation Area and Lassen Volcanic National Park in >Northern California.
