Intern Night Tonight – May 4, 2016
Please join us at RTPI on Wednesday May 4 from 6-7pm for a night of fun and learning as we enjoy presentations from two of RTPI’s fantastic interns. Alex Shipherd and Bryce Alexander, both Jamestown Community College students, have spent much of the spring semester assisting in winter raptor and hemlock woolly adelgid studies, respectively. Throughout the winter field season, Alex monitored known locations of roosting Northern Harriers and Short-eared owls within Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties while using GIS to find other probable locations in which they may occur. Bryce assisted in...
Read MoreIntern Night – May 4, 2016
Please join us at RTPI on Wednesday May 4 from 6-7pm for a night of fun and learning as we enjoy presentations from two of RTPI’s fantastic interns. Alex Shipherd and Bryce Alexander, both Jamestown Community College students, have spent much of the spring semester assisting in winter raptor and hemlock woolly adelgid studies, respectively. Throughout the winter field season, Alex monitored known locations of roosting Northern Harriers and Short-eared owls within Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties while using GIS to find other probable locations in which they may occur. Bryce assisted in...
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Tonight! The Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera) is a unique species that the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History and Jamestown Community College students have been studying over the past year, attempting to better understand their habits and behaviors as well as the current conditions of their particular habitat. JCC intern Alivia Sheffield will be presenting on what information has been discovered thus far about the Spiny Softshell Turtles residing in downtown Jamestown on March 12th at 6:00 pm at RTPI. This presentation will be open to the public and is a free event....
Read MoreRTPI Educational Presentation
Local friends! Check out this great program by RTPI Educator Tina Scherman for ages 8 and up based on a children’s book, For the Birds, The Life of Roger Tory Peterson written by Peggy Thomas and illustrated by Laura Jacques, at the James Prendergast Library at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays January 14 and 28. You’ll learn more about Roger Tory Peterson and his famous Peterson System of nature identification. You can find more information on the presentation here: http://rtpi.org/education/
Read More“For the Birds” Presentation
“For the Birds” is a forty minute presentation, appropriate for ages 8 and up based on the children’s biography For the Birds, The Life of Roger Tory Peterson. Roger Tory Peterson is most famous for writing and illustrating A Field Guide to the Birds. He was a renowned artist, writer, photographer and naturalist who used his gifts to educate millions of people to know and appreciate the natural world. Author Peggy Thomas’s well-researched text, Laura Jacque’s beautiful illustrations, related objects and activities allow participants to make personal, social, cultural, historical and...
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