2026
October 20 - Birds 'n Bites: On the State of the Great Salt Lake
Presented by Bonnie K. Baxter, Ph.D.
April 21 - Birds 'n Bites: Localscapes - Creating Your Ideal Waterwise Yard
Presented by Madeline Sueltz
January 20 - Birds 'n Bites: Adventures in Fieldwork Tracking 30 Wild Sage-grouse
Presented by Sarah Jacobsen, B.S.
February 17 - Birds 'n Bites: On the Recent Discovery of Ancient Artesian Groundwater Below Great Salt Lake
Presented by Bill Johnson, PhD
2025
January 21 - Birds 'n Bites: Raptor Rescue and Reuniting with Wasatch Wildlife Conservation Center
Presented by Jody Giddings
March 18 - Birds 'n Bites: Wildfire in Utah: How We Should Be Preparing
Presented by Patrick Belmont, PhD
April 15 - Birds 'n Bites: Advances of Molt Timing in Birds in Southwestern United States
Presented by Kyle Kittelberger
May 20 - Birds 'n Bites: Aspen Annals: Fir, Fire, Fur, & Feathers
Presented by Dr. Paul C. Rogers
September 16 - Birds 'n Bites: Persnickety Pelicans: Challenges and Insights of Studying Utah's Great White Bird
Presented by Van Tatenhove
2024
January 16 - Birds 'n Bites: Birds in the City: A Look into the Urban Ecology of Birds
Presented by Elias Johnson, BYU student & Gonzalo Ramirez, post doc at ASU
February 20 - Birds 'n Bites: The Food Chains of the Great Salt Lake (An Update)
Presented by Bonnie Baxter, GSL Institute at Westminster University
March 19 - Birds 'n Bites: Climate Vulnerability Assessment of the Great Salt Lake on Migration Patterns
Presented by Zoe Exelbert, Wilkes Climate Center, University of Utah
April 16 - Birds 'n Bites: The Spark Bird Project
Presented by Jennifer Lodi-Smith, Prof of Psychology, Canisius University
May 21 - Birds 'n Bites: Secrets of Raven Conversations
Presented by George Bumann, Naturalist and artist with Yellowstone Forever
September 17 - Birds ‘n Bites: Utah’s Renewables Backslide & Getting Back on Track
Presented by Logan Mitchell
October 15 - Birds ‘n Bites: Update on the Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust
Presented by Marcelle Shoop
2023
January 16 - Birds 'n Bites: Listening to the Dark Skies Along the Great American Flyway
Presented by Cin-ty Lee, the Harry Carothers Wiess Prof of Geology, Earth, Evnrionemtnal, and Planteary Science at Rice University
February 20 - Birds 'n Bites: The Food Chains of the Great Salt Lake (An Update)
Presented by Bonnie Baxter, GSL Institute at Westminster University
March 21 - Birds 'n Bites: Natural Gas Leakage and Home Electrification in Utah
Presented by Logan Mitchell, Climate Scientists and Energy Analyst, Utah Clean Energy
April 18 - Birds 'n Bites: Jordan River Nature Center Expansion
Presented by Melissa Beckstrom, Jordan River Nature Center, Tracy Aviary
May 16 - Birds 'n Bites: Great Salt Lake: A Bird's Perspective
Presented by Jaimi Butler
September 19 - Birds 'n Bites: Drying Desert Oasis?
Presented by John Luft, GSL Ecosystem Program
October 17 - Birds 'n Bites: Threat of Bear River Development on Great Salt Lake?
Presented by Matt Berry, Utah Rivers Council
November 21 - Birds 'n Bites: Listening to the Dark Skies Along the Great American Flyway
Presented by Cin-ty Lee, the Harry Carothers Wiess Prof of Geology, Earth, Evnrionemtnal, and Planteary Science at Rice University
2022
January 19 - Birds 'n Bites: Owls of Yellowstone
Presented by Katy Duffy
February 15 - Birds 'n Bites: Utah's 18 Bat Species
Presented by Terri Pope, DWR & Kody Wallace
April 19 - Birds 'n Bites:Saving the Monarchy: One Milkweed at a Time
Presented by Rachel Tayor
May 17 - Birds 'n Bites: Native American Voices on Healing the GSL
Presented by Darren Perry, former chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
September 22 - Birds 'n Bites: Impacts of the Oil & Gas Industry on Raptors
Presented by Fidel Atuo, post doctoral research associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 18 - Birds 'n Bites: Protection and Preservation of the Wild Buffalo
Presented by Jackson Dovel, Volunteer Coordinator, Buffalo Field Campaign
November 2 - Fall Forum: The Galapagos, Darwin and the Remarkable Caracaras
Presented by Jonathan Meiburg, author of "A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey"
November 15 - Birds 'n Bites: Honey Bees, Native Bees, and a Big Decision Facing Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
Presented by Mary O'Brien, Director, Project Eleven Hundred
2021
March 16 - Birds 'n Bites: 25 Years of Condor Recovery
Presented by Tim Hauck, Condor Program Manager, The Peregrine Fund
April 20 - Birds 'n Bites: Following Forest Owls
Presented by Dave Oleyar, Ph.D, Director of Long-term Monitoring & Community Science at HawkWatch International
May 18 - Birds 'n Bites: Dark Skies and Artificial Light
Presented by Heidi Hoven, Asst Manager of the Gillmor Sanctuary and Vellachi Ganesan, Lighting Designer
September 21 - Birds 'n Bites: Great Salt Lake - Shorebird Oasis
Presented by Max Malmquist, Outreach Assoc for National Audubon's Saline Lakes Program and Ella Sorensen, Manager, Gillmor Sanctuary
October 13 - Fall Forum: A World on the Wing
Presented by Scott Weidensaul, ornithologist and author of "A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds"
November 16 - Birds 'n Bites: Introduction to Localscapes
Presented by Shaun Moser, Garden Manager, Conservation Garden Park, West Jordan
2020
September 15 - Birds 'n Bites: Climate Change & GSL Watershed
Presented by Bonnie Baxter, Great Salt Lake Institute, Westminster College
October 27 - Birds 'n Bites: Lake Powell Pipe Dream
Presented by Zach Frankel, Utah Rivers Council
November 20 - Birds 'n Bites: Secret Lives of Predators Revealed Through Cameras
Presented by Mark Jasumback, Science Teacher at Skyline High School