Nature Night in the Afternoon, Sunday, June 27, 3-5 p.m.
City of Fairfax Regional Library, 10360 North Street, Fairfax.
If you have ever wondered about why and how birds sing and call, you are not alone.
Andrew Dolby, Vice President and President-elect of the Virginia Society of Ornithology, will provide some insight when he speaks at Audubon Society of Northern Virginia's Nature Night on Sunday, June 27 at 3 p.m. Dolby will speak about the form and function of songs and calls and how ornithologists study avian vocalizations.
Dolby is Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. He is currently working on new ways to measure stress in birds.
Please join us for this fascinating presentation and for ASNV's annual meeting. Parking is available behind the library. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join Us for our Holiday Nature Night: A Bird Named Hope Speaker: Biologist Fletcher Smith, The Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary/Virginia Commonwealth University Thursday, December 10, 2010, 6 p.m. Where: Merrifield Garden Center, 12101 Lee Highway, Fairfax Cost: FREE
Research biologist Fletcher Smith will talk about Hope, a whimbrel that has flown more than 10,000 miles on its migratory journey, and other birds that are being tracked as part of a collaborative effort by The Center for Conservation Biology and the Virginia chapter of The Nature Conservancy to help conserve the declining shorebird species. Robert Ake from the Virginia Society of Ornithology also will speak about maintaining the official records of birds recorded in the Commonwealth of Virginia. _________________________________________________________________________________________ In September we had this event: Global Warming - an update Speaker: Nathan Currier Thursday, September 17 at 7 pm Where: Hidden Oaks Nature Center, 7701 Royce St., Annandale, VA Cost: FREE
An update from The Climate Project on the fight against global warming. The Climate Project is the organization founded by former Vice President Al Gore and District Manager Peter Kelley will talk about what has appened since the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" was released in 2006.
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