The Migratory Connection
Join us at RTPI on Thursday, June 11 at 7:00PM for a free public event – The Migratory Connection: RTPI’s Tropical Conservation and Education Programs by RTPI President Twan Leenders. Find out where your favorite warblers and hummingbirds hang out when they are not in your backyard and be amazed by the other tropical birds they share their wintering grounds with. Meet some of the rarest frogs on our planet and see what RTPI is doing to help save them from extinction. Explore the exotic wildlife that calls the jungles of Costa Rica and Panama home – and see how some of it visits us on a...
Read MoreUnintentional Disturbances Threaten Waterbirds
There are a number of activities that can unintentionally scare, disturb or even threaten the survival of our waterbirds throughout the spring and summer seasons. Even a person with good intentions can fail to realize how sensitive a bird like the Piping Plover is, feeling threatened by dogs on the leash as they still see them as a predator invading their territory, making birds more prone to abandoning the area, wasting valuable energy or separating them from eggs or young, increasing mortality. Most beaches in Connecticut ban all dogs during the warm seasons in consideration of public...
Read MoreApril 2015 Ornithological Club
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute Ornithological Club has regular monthly meetings from September through November and January through May. Please join us Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 7:00PM for Gale VerHague – “Chasing Feathers: Birding with a Camera in Western New York and Beyond”. This is a free and public event. Expect to see and learn more about birds sightings like these American Avocets and this Yellow-throated Warbler.
Read MoreAnother HWA Survey
Don’t forget our Hemlock Woolly Adelgid surveys, with another coming up tomorrow Friday, February 27. This is not what you want to see covering the trees of Chautauqua County, killing thousands and devastating parts of the landscape. Please join us and help find the bug before it’s too late! See more information here.
Read MoreRTPIOC Tonight! January 28, 2015
Tonight at 7:00 p.m. Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History Ornithological Club President Tom Simmons will present a program with his excellent photos on the “South Dakota Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup” at the monthly meeting of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute Ornithological Club. The meeting will be held at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, 311 Curtis Street in Jamestown, New York. We hope to see you at this free and public event!
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