2025 Winter Lecture Series: Name that Plant – Bird – Insect: A Beginner’s Guide to Using Nature Apps with Juanita Hummel (March 2, 2025)

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What’s in a name? Knowing the name of a living thing can open a door into its world and deepen your connection with the nature world as a result. Modern tech has made that knowledge more easily accessible than ever once you know how to use it effectively. This program is an introduction to the best smart phone apps for helping you identify birds, plants and animals in the field. It is tailored for beginners as well as providing tips to improve ID accuracy for those who are already using apps but are not satisfied by the results they are getting. Learn how your observations may be used by scientific researchers and how you can contribute to citizen science project databases. Apps will include eBird, Merlin, iNaturalist, Seek and others.

Juanita Hummel is a volunteer interpretive naturalist at the Preserve, where she also serves on the board of trustees and chairs the education and interpretation committee. Retired from a career in research and a long-time birding enthusiast, she headed outdoors and into the natural world to learn more about plants, butterflies and amphibians and the habitats in which they live. She is a past president of the Washington Crossing Audubon Society, is a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist, has participated in many citizen scientist projects, does nature walks and talks for local environmental and conservation organizations, and enjoys eco-traveling to study the diversity of birds and plants around the world.

Program Fee: $15

Winter Lecture Series is brought to you, in part, thanks to the generous support of the Bucks County Foundation and BLBB Charitable.