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Join us for this special webinar celebrating the launch of Lights Out Connecticut’s new educational tool, a 5-day lesson plan for Connecticut middle-school science classrooms to promote learning on light pollution and its impacts on migratory birds. In the lesson plan, students learn about how and why birds migrate through Connecticut, discover how human development ... Read more
Presentation by Tanya Bourgoin, Selectman, East Haddam; chair, Sierra Club of CT's Wildlife Committee; president of the Friends of Machimoodus and Sunrise State Parks (which she founded in 2016); Board member, Friends of CT state Parks. She serves on the Sustainability Team of her town, East Haddam, and "in her spare time" is also a ... Read more
To help highlight the Federal Duck Stamp judging being held in Connecticut, this special event held the Saturday before will showcase our state’s waterfowl heritage and conservation efforts. The day will be full of fun family activities focused on everything waterfowl: Talk to representatives from the DEEP Wildlife and Environmental Conservation Police Divisions, Greenwich Audubon, and ... Read more
The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) was a rare breeder in Connecticut from 1850 to 1940, with only four known nest sites on trap rock ridges in the Connecticut Valley Lowlands. Peregrines also bred on the Traveler's Tower in Downtown Hartford from 1943 to 1948, the last published nesting record in CT in the pre-DDT era. ... Read more
Bird Banding Demonstration Saturday, September 21, 2024, at 9 A.M. Watch Andy and fellow banders catch birds, record data about them (species, sex, age, size, weight, condition, etc.), band, and safely release them. You may have an opportunity to release a bird. Fee: $5 CAS members; $10 non-members.
Ponds, rivers, streams, and marshes are our most biologically diverse environments. Though two streams or ponds may be only a mile apart, each could harbor a unique mix of species, particularly when separated by the hilly landscapes familiar across southern New England. That very diversity can also make life in ponds, rivers, and streams vulnerable: ... Read more
AVIAN RESEARCH UP CLOSE September 28, 2024, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. at Deer Pond Farm $5 Member, $10 Non-Members Join us at Deer Pond Farm in collaboration with Dr. Chad Seewagen and Dr. Sarah Deckel of the Great Hollow Nature Preserve to get a close-up look at how permitted researchers safely catch migrating songbirds, mark them ... Read more
Author Talk and Walk: Frank Gallo, "Birding in Connecticut" Saturday, September 28, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm, at Darien Nature Center, 120 Brookside Rd. Darien, CT 06820 *This is a free event* Darien Library, along with Darien Nature Center, welcome birding expert and author Frank Gallo, who will talk about CT's avian species, and his book, Birding ... Read more
Greenwich Audubon Center is thrilled to announce a two-day celebration of the importance of birds of prey and their incredible migratory journeys. Attendees will be able to enjoy meeting hawks & owls up close during Live Raptor Presentations by falconers & local wildlife rehabilitators as well as learn how to identify the dozens of species ... Read more
Greenwich Audubon Center is thrilled to announce a two-day celebration of the importance of birds of prey and their incredible migratory journeys. Attendees will be able to enjoy meeting hawks & owls up close during Live Raptor Presentations by falconers & local wildlife rehabilitators as well as learn how to identify the dozens of species ... Read more
Litchfield Community Center, 421 Bantam Road (Rte 202), Litchfield, CT 06759 Dave Tripp's Trip to the Pantanal and the Amazon Dave Tripp, Jr., Board and almost life-long member of LHAS; committee member on CT's ARCC; founding member of the CT Big Day team, The Raven Lunatics. Photographer, traveller and leader of ... Read more
