Municipal Training
Here you can see Audubon Connecticut’s Important Bird Areas Coordinator Corrie Folsom-O’Keefe training a group of Connecticut municipal officials on what actions are required to improve nesting success for state and federally threatened waterbirds. The training session by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds, Audubon Connecticut and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, also included a presentation by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection biologist Laura Saucier. Photos by Audubon Connecticut Director of Bird Conservation Patrick...
Read MoreHappy New Year!
Happy New Year to all our friends! We hope you have a sensational 2015. On the last day of 2014 please help make our wonderful past year all the better! As the sole official steward of Roger Tory Peterson’s wondrous legacy RTPI connects people with nature through Art, Conservation and Education. Your gifts support our continuing mission to teach, conserve birds and wildlife, and embrace the natural world, keeping Roger’s vision alive. Thank you and please visit us soon!
Read MoreMantis above Pachysandra
Here’s a Chinese Mantis hanging out while looking for a snack above a Pachysandra species a few hours ago on this cool September morning. The European Mantis is actually the official state insect of Connecticut despite the fact it is a non-native species. This is supposedly because, “mantis are beneficial insects for farmers and are therefore symbolic reminders of the importance of the natural environment to human and biological survival” according to the CT DEEP website. That is a confounding statement/explanation to me. Maybe we could try something else – the...
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