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Dr. Jerome A. Jackson

On Thursday night June 10th there will be a reception at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute headquarters. President Jim Berry will give a special presentation on The Peterson Collection, where he will unveil a few of the rarest pieces of Peterson art and memoribilia and talk about their significance. Also featured will be Dr. Jerome A. Jackson of Florida Gulf Coast University. Jerry is an eminent ornithologist and wildlife ecologist and author of In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Jerry's presentation is titled The Ivory-billed Woodpecker: History, Natural History, and Gems in the Ashes of Hope.  You don't want to miss this one.

Featured Speakers

 

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Dr. Bridget Stutchbury
Bridget Stutchbury, a professor of biology at York University, roams forests and jungles studying the sexual antics and social lives of birds, and explains the science behind the surprisingly sophisticated and often amusing behavior of birds. In her new book The Private Lives of Birds, Stutchbury will explain, why some birds readily divorce their partners, why parents don’t treat their sons and daughters equally, why females sneak copulations with neighboring males, why mothers sometimes desert their babies, and why some adults forego breeding altogether. See all speakers...

Dr. Bridget Stutchbury Bio & Program Info

On Saturday June 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM at the Jamestown Community College Hamilton Collegiate Center there will be a buffet dinner and keynote address...

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Dr. Eugene Morton Bio & Program Info

Dr. Eugene Morton will be presenting a program titled Life of the Purple Martin.  It's an illustrated talk about the world's largest swallow emphasizing its...

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Featured Trips

The Pennsylvania Whirlwind Warbler Tour is quickly shaping up into a warbler "Big Day" with 16 species reported on this same trip in 2009.  Running on Thursday June 10, this trip covers land within Allegheny National Forests and other nearby public lands and is led by Forest Service Ornithologist Dr. Scott Stoleson and other PA experts. Cerulean, Black-throated Blue, Mourning and Blackburnian Warblers are sure to be seen. Sign up early for this one.  See all trips...

Woodchuck Hill

This Chautauqua County, New York site comprises a mixed deciduous forest interspersed with conifer plantations. Access is via logging roads and trails through semi-rough terrain. ...

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Watts Flats Wild Life Management Area

Watts Flats straddles a tributary of Little Brokenstraw Creek. It is mainly a wetland shrub swamp and emergent marsh with a series of beaver...

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Whirlwind Warbler Tour

Pennsylvania Whirlwind Warbler Tour Trip Leaders Dr. Scott Stoleson and Don Watts The Whirlwind Warbler Tour is a prefestival event that will take up most...

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Featured Events

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Peterson in the Galapagos
Galapagos, Wild Eden, a motion picture produced, filmed and narrated by Roger Tory Peterson has been digitally restored by the National Film Preservation Board, an arm of the Library of Congress.  At 8:00 PM on Friday June 11, 2010 the film will be shown in the Scharmann Theater on the Jamestown Community College Campus.

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Galapagos, Wild Eden

Galapagos, Wild Eden, a motion picture produced, filmed and narrated by Roger Tory Peterson has been digitally restored by the National Film Preservation Board, an...

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Archive Tour

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History archives will be available for guided tours only on Sunday June 13, 2010.  The Peterson Collection of...

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Featured Accomodations

A modern college dormitory that is closer to a resort hotel than a dorm of old is in the center of the Birding Festival action.  You can park your car and never need it again while you're here. See accomodations...

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