[va-richmond-general] Richmond Audubon Society Meeting, April 21, Thursday, 7PM

  • From: Diane Jadlowski <djadski@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: *RAS general list <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, *VA Listserve <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 17:21:51 -0400


     Richmond Audubon Society Member Meeting, April 21, Thursday, 7PM


     Birding Western Alaska

RAS welcomes Len Smock, Director of the VCU Rice Rivers Center and long-time birder, as he takes us through two weeks of birding in the far west of Alaska. Some of us have enjoyed visiting and birding Alaska from Seward to Anchorage, Denali and Fairbanks, but birding around Nome and roadless St. Lawrence Island, in the Bering Sea just 34 miles from Siberia, is a different kind of adventure.

The presentation will lead you through this beautiful, wind swept environment and introduce you to the Upik Native-Americans and their subsistence way of life - have you every walked through, and birded in, a centuries-old boneyard full of whale, seal and walrus bones? And of course there are the birds. Clouds of over 600,000 auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, eiders and others that fly by twice a day as they head out to sea to forage and then return to the island's seaside cliffs. There also are the Asian species such as bluethroats, wagtails and greenshanks, as well as the species of the tundra like snow buntings, longspurs, bristle-thighed curlews and gyrfalcons. Afterwards, you will be ready to pack your bags and head out to this remote and beautiful area of North America.

Looking forward to May, Joyce Caldwell, RAS Education Chair, will present, “Nest in Peace.” More details will appear in the May/June Thrasher.


     Location:   St Luke Lutheran Church
     
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