Thanks Banff Sponsors!
Our sincere thanks to our local sponsors, Gary N. Johnson Insurance Agency and Chautauqua Patrons Insurance Company, for their support of the 2015 Jamestown Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour presented by the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. This always exciting evening is this Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from 7:00pm – 11:00pm at the Reg Lenna Center For The Arts, 116 East Third Street, Jamestown, NY 14701. Get your tickets here!
Read MoreRusty Blackbird Fact Sheet
Are you a leader of an Audubon chapter, nature center, land trust or other area where the public can enjoy birds and wildlife? If so, I am hoping you would be so kind as to distribute and/or post the below two-page informational document about the Rusty Blackbird and the Rusty Blackbird International Working Group’s upcoming Spring Migration Blitz for your visitors. You can also download it here. I am the statewide Connecticut coordinator for the Rusty Blackbird Spring Migration Blitz, running from March through mid-June across the continent and focused in Connecticut from...
Read MoreWinter Raptor Count – RTPI on WGRZ TV
A tremendous thanks to Terry Belke of WGRZ TV in Buffalo for producing this article and video segment on the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History’s winter raptor surveys for his popular series “2 The Outdoors”. The video features RTPI President Twan Leenders and some footage and photos of our target species, the Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl. There is some seriously wonderful video to be seen, so please check it out! RTPI is assisting the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for a second season of wintering raptor surveys in Chautauqua...
Read MoreNorthern Flickers
Earlier this week we were looking for a Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) photo because, as you have likely seen, over 99% of the content we use we make ourselves. This is something we take pride in at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. We write, we photograph, we record, we film, and we create. We do not use outside materials except when there is no other alternative…and then we immediately try to get out and get the missing content ourselves. Twan and I did not have many Northern Flicker pictures, each of us with only one real usable image. They fall into that...
Read MoreTime Warner Cable News Features RTPI
In case you missed it on last night’s Time Warner Cable News please see this short video segment featuring RTPI Conservation Technician Elyse Henshaw on RTPI’s interactive, self-guided “Nature at Your Fingertips” cell phone tour featuring 25 stops on 450+ miles of trails in the Snowmobile Clubs of Chautauqua County’s trails, including Chautauqua Lake Snowmobile Club, Ellery Sno-Cruisers, Lake Effect Trail Breakers, Cherry Creek Sno-Goers and Sunset Drifters. Our thanks to Time Warner Cable News! Please learn more about the tour and its sponsors here on our...
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