JEFF TRAIN - BIRDING LIFE LESSONS FOR ALL

Jeffrey Train is the founder of Mr. Train's Life Lessons for Better Birding & Beyond, a curriculum-driven program inspiring families and young naturalists to discover the wonder of birds. Celebrating the mysteries of nature and the practices of positive psychology, Mr. Train empowers you to discover joy and gratitude through encounters with nature. Jeff is also a co-founder of Our Tern, an organization aiming to protect a colony of nesting Common Terns on a pier in Hoboken, NJ, and Freedom Birders, a movement seeking to change the culture of bird-watching that derives inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement.

Jeffrey is an award-winning educator: a Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Teacher Finalist, a Governor’s Award nominee, an Academy for Teachers Fellow, and the winner of Bergen Audubon’s Teacher Appreciation Award.  Jeffrey has led birding walks in NY’s Central Park among other places, and he has led walks and talks at the Cape May Spring and Fall Birding Festivals. In addition, Jeff is an activist who has spearheaded the movement to eliminate the plastic bag in Hoboken, the first such legislation in the state of New Jersey. In his leisure time, he enjoys birding with his family and looking forward to finding his 100th species of bird in his home city of Hoboken.

The John Burroughs Woodchuck Lodge Wild Saturdays Series is Supported by a grant from the Catskill Watershed Corporation.