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Program Meeting

Please join us for our next Program Meeting
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
7pm EDT
In Person:
UNCA's Reuter Center

University of North Carolina - Asheville

1 University Heights

Asheville, NC 28804

 

Or via Zoom

https://unca-edu.zoom.us/j/94602422957?pwd=Z3h2VFlUUGo2aUV1WC8rYmFKNUt0dz09

April 2023 Meeting:
Exploring New Guinea’s Lost Worlds and  Elusive Birds of Paradise
with Bruce Beehler, Smithsonian Institution

In this presentation, Smithsonian naturalist

Bruce Beehler describes his nearly four decades

of field study of the birds and rainforests of

the great island of New Guinea. The talk will

feature the remarkable diversity of the birdlife

inhabiting New Guinea, as well as a focused look

at the birds of paradise and the amazing plumages

and behaviors of this unique bird family.

Bird of paradise

Bruce Beehler is an ornithologist and Research Associate in the Division of Birds at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. His latest book is New Guinea: Nature and Culture of the Earth’s Grandest Island.

 Did you miss any of our 2021/2022 online program meetings?
Watch them here on our Facebook page.
(A Facebook account is not required.)

All Blue Ridge Audubon Chapter programs are free and open to everyone.

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