Name: Alliance Afternoon: Matt Felperin's Birdathon Warbler Bootcamp
Start: 2025-03-23T14:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-23T16:30:00-04:00
Location: 11100 Wildlife Center Dr

Alliance Afternoon: Matt Felperin's Birdathon Warbler Bootcamp

Learn how to find warblers, about Birdathon and ways to volunteer.
About this Event

Yellow-throated Warbler, Matt Felperin

Join us on Sunday afternoon for our quarterly live Audubon Afternoon at the National Wildlife Federation, 11100 Wildlife Center Drive in Reston.

We’ll gather informally starting at 2:30 pm so you have an opportunity to reconnect with everyone. We welcome any food and drink you would like to share with everyone during the informal portion of the program. At 3:00 pm, our Board President will present our revised bylaws for member approval. Our formal program will begin at 3:15pm, when guest speaker Matt Felperin will give us a Warbler Bootcamp in preparation for spring migration. He will also speak about Birdathon, our Spring fundraiser, and how to get your team set up. All are welcome to attend, participation in Birdathon is encouraged but not required.

After the talk, from 4:00 - 4:30 pm, stick around to speak with board members and staff about how you can get more involved! Volunteers are needed for a new bird strike monitoring program, spring outreach tabling, purple martin monitoring, invasive removal and more.

More about our speaker: Matt Felperin is a DC area local, raised in Takoma Park, MD. He is the Roving Naturalist with NOVA Parks, the regional park system of Northern Virginia. Matt has always been drawn to nature, and has been sharing his findings with anyone within earshot since his days as a small child looking for salamanders and crayfish in nearby Sligo Creek. He truly treasures the Chesapeake Bay and has enjoyed field work and naturalist programs in several types of habitat within the Chesapeake Watershed, and credits working under naturalist Greg Kearns for truly sparking his love of birds. As the NOVA Parks Roving Naturalist, Matt leads environmental education and recreation programs such as bird walks and kayak tours for the public. He views his wildlife photography work as one of the most useful tools to connect people with nature.

Open to the general public, all are welcome!