We have several programs of interest this month, including a kid's program for
young artists interested in bird conservation:
The American Crow...Not Your Average Songbird with Doug Robinson, PhD
Wednesday, March 12th at 7pm
A much maligned, yet beloved bird, the American Crow has a complex
social life and amazing intelligence. Crows have been proven to
recognize familiar human faces! Join us tonight to learn about this very
cool songbird's social behaviors, nesting habits and more.
Professor Doug Robinson is an evolutionary biologist whose teaching
and research experiences have focused on organismal biology and
behavior. He has taught classes on animal behavior, ecology,
ornithology, vertebrate biology, general biology, environmental science,
and anatomy and physiology. He guided a group of students to New
Zealand for an 18-day trip as part of his studies. The questions
that
guide his research revolve around how behavior is shaped by
ecological and social environments.
Program location: Cold Spring Harbor Library
Documentary Screening: Gasland Part II
Thursday, March 20, 2014 7:00 PM sharp
Join us tonight as Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon, together with Food and Water
Watch, hosts a
screening of GASLAND Part II, an explosive follow-up to the Oscar®-nominated
film GASLAND.
After the film, a representative from Food and Water Watch will lead a
discussion about hydraulic
fracturing (“fracking”).
Filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look
at the dangers
of fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now
occurring on a global
level (in 32 countries worldwide). GASLAND PART II, which premiered at the
2013 Tribeca Film
Festival, shows how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one
of the most important
environmental issues facing our nation today. The film argues that the gas
industry’s portrayal of
natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked
wells inevitably leak
over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the
earth’s climate with
the potent greenhouse gas, methane. In addition the film looks at
how the powerful oil and gas
industries are in Fox's words "contaminating our democracy". Please join us
tonight for a powerful
evening surrounding the ramifications of fracking. Location: Cold Spring Harbor
Library
Sharing our Beaches with Birds - Poster Workshop for Kids
Sunday, March 30, 2014 2:00 PM
Do you know a young artist who is interested in protecting birds? Take a peek
at our poster workshop for kids:
Today we will first learn about beach nesting birds with an
interactive
program. Once we have learned just how interesting, important and imperiled
these
birds are we will turn artsy and create posters with the help of renowned local
nature artist, Lilith Jones. Ten of these
posters will then be chosen to be made into signs for Hobart Beach in
Northport to
educate the public and help protect the birds’ nesting grounds. This is your
chance to
make a difference in the lives of birds, while doing something fun at the same
time!
If your poster is chosen to be made into a sign you will be invited to join us
at a
Be a Good Egg Campaign Awareness Day at Hobart Beach!
For ages 8 to 18. Workshop location: Cold Spring Harbor Library. Please visit
website to register.
For more information on all of these programs please visit the HOBAS website or
email me privately.
Thanks,
Stella Miller
President
Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon Society
"Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding
whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the
understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is
between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man." Thomas Lovejoy
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