Education, Seminars, and Training at Powdermill Avian Research Center

At Powdermill Avian Research Center, we offer a variety of educational opportunities from publications to workshops to school field trips.

• Beginner and Advanced Bird Banding Workshops
   
• 2nd Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas
   
• Monograph: Relationships Among Body Mass, Fat, Wing Length, Age, and Sex for 170 Species of Birds Banded at Powdermill Nature Reserve
   
• Presentation Given at 2007 Annual Meeting of Easter Bird Banding Association
   
• School & Civic Field Trips at Powdermill Nature Reserve
   
• Summer Programs at Powdermill Nature Reserve
   
• Research Opportunities at Powdermill Nature Reserve

Learn the Terminology

Have you wondered about the abbreviations we use on the explanations of our Pictorial Highlights?  What is AHY or HY? What is prebasic molt? What species is RTHU or YWAR? We've gathered a number of websites to help you learn the terminology we use throughout our website.

• Ontario Field Ornithologists have a website explaining Plumages, Molts, and Banding Codes.
   
• The Institute for Bird Populations have a website with lists of Alpha Codes for North American Birds sorted by:
  • Phylogenetic order
  • English name
  • Scientific Name
  • A zipped database file that you can sort any way you like.
     
• Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College has a diagram of a bird's wing to help you learn the position of the feathers.