Changes to BIBT Presentations

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Pam Grassmick
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Changes to BIBT Presentations

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Please note the switch in days to accommodate our birding guides hectic schedules. Brian Allen will be presenting his Peru presentation on Saturday with Birding 101 being moved to Sunday afternoon.

All presentations take place at the Community Center. No registration is required for presentations, free, and appropriate for all age groups.

The festivities begin on Friday night, May 26th at 5 p.m.: â??Michigan Eagles and Ospreys, A Bird's Eye Viewâ?￾ presented by Jerry Weinrich.

Jerry Weinrich will speak on his dream job conducting a census of the eagle and osprey populations in the Northern Lower Peninsula. As a wildlife biologist for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment for 30 years, Jerry has the distinction of coordinating the longest-running, large scale census of eagles and ospreys anywhere in the country. He has produced amazing aerial views, not only of nests with fledglings inside, but birds in flight as well. The eagle population, Weinrich says, is on the rise â?? up from 30 nesting pair in the Lower Peninsula when he started to 407 now. There are about 120 pair of nesting osprey, he said. Currently, Beaver Island is the only Great Lakes Island with a pair of nesting Osprey.
Weinrich hopes those who attend will walk away from the program with an appreciation of how well the eagles are doing.

Moved to Saturday:
Saturday, May 27th at 4:30 p.m.-Birding Peru; Penguins to Piping Guans with Brian Allen. In the Spring of 2010, Brian was invited to Peru on a trip sponsored by Kolibri Expeditions to explore the feasibility of doing ecotourism in the Satipo Valley in the east central region of the Andes Mountains. Brian says that this program will show some of the stunning scenery and some of the scariest roads for birding he has ever experienced! He will take us to some of the last retreats of the Black-spectacled Brush Finch, the endemic Pardusco, and the gorgeous Golden-backed and Yellow-scarfed Tanagers.

Sunday, May 28th at 1 p.m.-Penguins and Prions: Birds and Wildlife of the Seventh Continent presented by Cathy Theisen. The continent of Antarctica is a fascinating, uninhabited land of ice and snow. Not a single land mammal lives here, although it boasts a rich collection of both bird and marine mammal life. Join Dr. Cathy Theisen on the trip of a lifetime to the bottom of the globe, and learn about the fascinating animals and the adaptations that allow them to live here. Examine some of the effects of human disruption, and some of the greatest restoration successes of this fragile wilderness.

Moved to Sunday, May 28th:
From 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., the BIBT festivities will include Birding 101 presented by Darrell Lawson.

Interested in exploring skills helpful to beginning birders? Join Darrell Lawson, President of the Petoskey Audubon Club, for a beginning birding presentation at the Community Center. Darrell will cover field guide selection, optics selection, tips for learning bird songs, bird habitats, and identification pitfalls to avoid. Darrell is an avid birder who loves sharing his passion.

More information on the speakers and events can be found on http://www.beaverislandbirdingtrail.org
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