Bird Watching Tour and Lesson by Dr. Peter Yaukey


Item Number: 138

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $50

Online Close: Dec 6, 2021 10:00 PM CST

Bid History: 4 bids - Item Sold!

Description

This gift certificate is good for a two hour birding outing (and birding lesson) anywhere in greater New Orleans. You can suggest the location(s) if desired. Peter Yaukey can include 3 participants in his car, subject to covid restrictions. He will give the outing to more people if others can provide their own transport.


Visit his bird watching blog at: http://birdingneworleans.blogspot.com/


Peter Yaukey is a full professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Holy Cross in New Orleans, where he has been on the faculty since fall of 2016. He retired from the University of New Orleans in 2015 at age 54, after being on the geography faculty there since 1991. He has taught a variety of courses, focused mainly on environmental topics, weather and climate, wildlife ecology, and applied statistics. Yaukey's research primarily focuses on hurricane climatology and on urban ecology, especially birds. In addition to publishing in technical journals, he has consulted and done contract work in both these fields.


He is a licensed tour operator and has done birding tours of half a day and full day in the past. His business is Gulf South Environmental Investigations. He can be reached at (504) 400-3286.

Special Instructions

Donated by the Yaukey family.


Expiration 12/31/2021