A warm fall day
Temperatures are soaring upwards today to the mid 70s and the strong southerly flow responsible for the rise is taking a toll on the foliage! It even hit 80 in Buffalo. Get outdoors today and come visit us at RTPI as dozens of other visitors have already this Tuesday. Here’s a view from behind our building where folks are watching birds and enjoying the air.
Read MoreFuture exhibit: Bird Portraits by Steve Cagan
Please keep an eye on our future exhibits page! You’ll see that from November 14, 2014 to January 4, 2015 RTPI will be hosting the glorious “Bird Portraits” by Steve Cagan with images like this Black Vulture. Learn more here on our website.
Read MoreCome see Passenger Pigeons
Please be sure to stop by RTPI and come up to our second floor to see these Passenger Pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius) on display. Where else will you be able to see and learn about an extinct species right in front of you? RTPI is open Tuesday through Saturday 10:00AM-4:00PM and Sunday 1:00 PM-5:00 PM.
Read MorePassenger Pigeon centennial
The world’s last Passenger Pigeon, Martha, died at 1PM on September 1, 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo. Once likely the most abundant bird in North America it was effectively extinct in the wild around the turn of the 20th century and even Roger Tory Peterson, born 1908, never saw one. He did illustrate the species for his first field guide in 1934 with the help of museum specimens. Please visit RTPI to see these three Passenger Pigeons on display on our second floor and see Twan’s Meet Your Neighbours photos of them...
Read MoreHappy birthday Roger Tory Peterson!
Happy birthday to Roger Tory Peterson! Dr. Peterson would have been 106 years old today. He believed that the key to solving environmental problems was to understand and appreciate the plants and animals in our world through art, education and conservation. This is a philosophy we at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute embrace wholeheartedly – learn it, love it, protect it! Please come see us at RTPI (311 Curtis Street in Jamestown, New York) to view Dr. Peterson’s work and collections and to learn more about our natural world. Here he is hard at work as photographed by Noble...
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