Category Archives: Science

Phil Donahue and Milan Bull talk Purple Martins!

Phil Donahue and Milan Bull talk aerial insectivores at the Friends of Sherwood Island 15th Annual Meeting on June 6, 2013. Continue reading

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Read to your Kid, It’s Children’s Book Week!

The late Martha McKeen Welch is the author and photographer of this wonderful book “Close Looks in a Spring Woods”, published by Dodd, Mead & Company. Martha McKeen Welch, through deft text and close-up photographs, shows young readers not only what comes to life in a springs woods, but also where this budding life comes from. Each season contains the start of the next. Continue reading

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Blackburnian Warbler, A Survivor!

Is one of the most beautiful birds in the Neotropical Wood Warbler family. Take a journey with us and discover how this little bird overcomes the obstacles to survive. Continue reading

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“Gifts of the Crow”

John Marzluff author of “Gifts of the Crow,” does a Illustrated presentation to a packed house at the Mid-Manhattan New York Public Library, New York, NY on April 2, 2013. Dr. Marzluff discusses the amazing and intelligent corvid family, with a focus on crows. Mardi Dickinson also Includes a book review and the link to her radio interview with both authors. Continue reading

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COA 29th Annual Meeting 2013

Connecticut Ornithological Association’s (COA) Annual Meeting 2013 was an overwhelming success! Featured Speakers this year were Dr. Stephen Kress, Sharon “Birdchick” Stiteler, and Marshall J. Iliff. Continue reading

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BenJamin Van Doren wins prestigious award!

Benjamin Van Doren talks with Mardi Dickinson about his scientific project on “Birds migrating in autumn”, that won him fifth place in the prestigious National Intel Science competition awards. Continue reading

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Migrants, Here and There, Intimate Encounters with Birds of Passage.

Are you ready for spring migration? Townsend P. Dickinson launchs lecture series starting with “Migrants, Here and There, Intimate Encounters with Birds of Passage”. A Natual History photographer for 40 years, Townsend is know for his breathtaking photographs of Wood Warblers, a project he has been photographing on there migratory path from South America forward and back again for 40 years. Continue reading

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