Swingin’ Jazz and Birds in DC with Potomac River Jazz Club

July 21st, 2018

Washington, DC, USA

Photo © David Robinson, Jr.

Mini-grant winner Potomac River Jazz Club will be presenting their Pileated Woodpecker Strut event on Saturday July 21 from 9AM to noon, rain or shine. The event will be held at the Rock Creek Park Nature Center in Washington, DC. The National Park Service is partnering with the jazz club for this event.

They will be conducting the Celebrate Urban Birds citizen science project marking several 50’x50′ observation areas for data gathering. Bird guides and binoculars will be loaned to the attendees for their observations. As a bonus, a special presentation of “Birds in the Night Sky” will be featured in the Nature Center’s planetarium.

During the course of the three-hour event, award-winning Capital Focus Jazz Band (local youth) will perform short sets indoors, interspersed with three 10-minute outdoor bird observation sessions in the adjacent marked areas. Observation data sheets will be provided.

Come and enjoy this unique event where citizen science and birds meet Jazz!

Free admission for all ages!

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Celebrate Urban Birds strives to co-create bilingual, inclusive, and equity-based community science projects that serve communities that have been historically underrepresented or excluded from birding, conservation, and citizen science. The project seeks to promote better science through equitable knowledge sharing, increased access, centering missing voices and experiences, and intentionally advocating for community ownership and scientific research leadership. Together with participating communities, the project has co-developed processes to co-design, pilot, and implement scientific research and programming while focusing on race and equity.