Botswana: An African Adventure , presented by Bob Gress – Photographer, current WAS president, and former Director of the Great Plains Nature Center. A trip to watch wild animals, especially in Africa is called a safari. In Swahili, safari means journey or expedition. Botswana is a landlocked country in southern Africa. The country lies mostly …
Cats and windows: Two of the greatest threats to our declining bird populations, presented by Scott Loss – Professor of Biology at Oklahoma State University. In addition to important human-caused threats like climate change and habitat loss, bird populations are affected by several direct sources of human-caused mortality, like predation by domestic cats, chemical poisoning, …
Chasing America’s Raptors – presented by Scott Harris – birder, photographer, and author. Scott Harris spent 17 months, chasing 53 Raptors across 34 states—his version of a Raptor Big Year. RaptorQuest is about his adventures, misadventures, successes and failures. From -36 degree days, to ones over 100 degrees, to just getting on the bird just …
Masked Bobwhite Recovery Program at the Sutton Avian Research Center, presented by Donald Wolfe, Jr. – Senior biologist at George Miksch Sutton Center for Avian Science. Donald Wolfe will speak on the Sutton Avian Research Center Masked Bobwhite breeding and recovery effort, and also about Northern Bobwhite (why captive breeding/releases are not a good plan …
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