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Join us for Year 4 of our extremely popular, award winning WBUniversity!

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Learn something new.
Love the wild around you.
Give Back to the community we call home.
8 classes. 8 opportunities to make a difference.

WBU Knoxville will make a donation to 8 different organizations (one per class) to help them continue their good works in our community.

 ALL NEW CLASSES THIS YEAR are listed below:

**** 1st Semester  ****

September 13th @ 11 am

Class 1: Secrets of the Monarch

After going through one final metamorophsis in late summer, monarch butterflies migrate south to Mexico. How do we know that? Come find out!

Donation for this class will go to:

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

October 11th @ 11 am

Class 2: Late Season Wildflowers

 In the Fall the fields and even the roadsides are alive with color. There are asters, coneflowers, ironweed, joe pye weed and many speices of bright yellow goldenrod. Let's take a look at them all.

November 8th @ 11 am 

Class 3: Captive Birds of Prey

Join Stephen Lyn for a look at the injuried owls, hawks, and falcons he has worked with over the past 25 years.

December 13th @ 11 am

Class 4: Creating a Bird Friendly Yard

Join the WBU Staff and Learn about the different feeders, foods, birdbaths, and nest boxes available. Plus Stephen Lyn will add a note about all the Native Plants Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers that some of your birds rely on.

**** 2nd Semester ****

February 14th @ 11 am

Class 5: Love Birds w/ Ranger Clare (From: 7 Islands State Birding Park) 

 Love is in the air and the birds are preparing for the spring mating season! Join ranger Clare from Seven Islands State Birding Park on Valentines Day to Learn All About Unique Courtship Behaviors and Partnerships of Birds.

March 14th @ 11 am 

Class 6: Frogs & Toads or East Tennessee

Let's visit the 14 species of Frogs and Toads that live in our area, including two toads that are rarely seen because they live underground.

April 11th @ 11 am

Class 7: Ghost Bird

 Let's god back to the 1930s and visit an epic journey to travel across America to record and photography birds, for the first time including the vanishing ivory-billed woodpecker.

May 2nd @ 10 am... Graduation @ 11 am

Class 8: Insects of Summer

With insect population in decline, How do individual male and female insects find each other in this big old world? You'll be surprised!!