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Litchfield Hills Audubon Society meeting:  Birds, Bugs and Beyond: The Biodiversity and Benefits of Grasslands

Litchfield Community Center 421 Bantam Rd (Rte. 202), Litchfield, CT, United States

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

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Audubon CT Greenwich: CT Waterfowl Conservation Day

Greenwich Audubon 613 Riversville Road, Greenwich, CT, United States

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

Western CT Bird Club: The Return of the Peregrine Falcon

Online CT, United States

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

CT Audubon Pomfret: Bird Banding Demo

CT Audubon Center at Pomfret 218 Day Road, Pomfret Center, CT, United States

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.

$5 – $10

Menunkatuck Audubon: A Dance of Herons -The Birds & Other Wildlife of Freshwater

Online CT, United States

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

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CT Audubon Deer Pond Farm: Avian Research Up Close

CT Audubon Deer Pond Farm 57 Wakeman Hill Road, Sherman, CT, United States

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

$5 – $10

Darien Library/ Darien Nature Center: Author Talk and Walk: Frank Gallo, “Birding in Connecticut”

Darien Nature Center 120 Brookside Rd., Darien, CT, United States

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

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