First Inaugural Birding Festival at Roger Tory Peterson Institute

March 29, 2009 | Laura 2

To celebrate the life and legacy of Roger Tory Peterson, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute will launch its inaugural annual birding festival June 4-7, 2009.

The focus of the festival will be eastern North American warblers on the Allegheny Plateau. Twenty-five warblers are known to breed in the area and the festival will offer several field trips to these breeding sites led by knowledgeable birders.

The festival will feature keynote speakers Kenn Kaufman and Pete Dunne, the showing of re-mastered Peterson films, and birding workshops with Kaufman, Dunne, Lang Elliott and John Rappole.

Considering the Jamestown/Lake Chautauqua region is the loci of many great thinkers, birders, naturalists and natural areas, I bet this will be a great new tradition.

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: The inaugural RTPI Birding Festival will take place June 4-7, 2009

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