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• Bird Walk at the Zoo: February 18
  The grounds of the National Zoo attract a wide variety of resident and migratory bird species throughout the year. Bird House keeper Debi Talbott will host a bird walk on Zoo grounds one Saturday morning a month.
• Birds Connect Classrooms in the U.S. and Nicaragua
  Twice a year, millions of birds belonging to about 150 species travel between seasonal homes in Nicaragua and the United States.
• Stingless Bees at a Honduran Coffee Farm
  The very light-in-color, almost clear honey produced by these bees derives from a variety of local native and introduced plants, including many that comprise the shade cover for a diverse shade coffee system.
• Summer Tanager in Honduran Coffee Farm
  On one small holding, near the producer’s house, this summer tanager (Piranga rubra) was seen hanging out in and around the coffee managed by the producer and his family.
• Job Opening
  Paid internship positions available at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.
• Job Opening
  A Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship is available to assist in the development of full life-cycle population models for multiple migratory bird species.
• Delaware Coastal Birding All-Day Tour
  Explore some of Delaware’s top birding locations with birding experts Andy Sprenger and Chris Tonra. Birding at the Indian River Inlet, Cape Henlopen and Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge promise great opportunities to glimpse many types of birds including scoters, loons, harlequin ducks, and many more.
• Job Opening
  Participate in a long-term ecological study of forest bird populations at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.