RTPI Receives Cattaraugus County Arts Council Grant
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History recently received a $2,000 grant from the Cattaraugus County Arts Council (CCAC) to help with costs for our three summer exhibitions, which we collectively called Natural Connections. The photo is of RTPI’s Development Associate Linda Pierce and Communications & Public Programs Coordinator Jane Johnson with Senator Cathy Young and our award certificate. Through the grant we were able to plan for some great workshops featuring local artists featured, plus design and print a brochure providing information on the exhibits and...
Read MoreShorebird Monitor Training Completed
On Saturday, March 14, the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (Audubon Connecticut and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection completed successful training sessions for many of our fantastic past and new volunteer monitors. These citizen scientists and educators will hit the beaches come April, monitoring Piping Plovers and American Oystercatchers with other species like the Least and Common Terns soon to come. If you would like to join us on the Connecticut shore this...
Read MoreNew CLICK Program in Panama
With this storm settling down, Twan and I are preparing for our return to Panama tomorrow (hopefully). We are assisting with a new program this year called CLICK, and its goal is to assist rural villages in Panama to protect the biodiversity around them. High school students from the Marvelwood School in Kent, Connecticut will work with children from the rural village of La Zahina in eastern Panama along with Lauren Bowers (daughter of Marvelwood Alum Chuck Bowers) to document the wildlife in their “backyards” and around the Cocobolo Nature Reserve in order to better understand and help...
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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