Ornithologist Charles Clarkson, coordinator for the Rhode Island Bird Atlas will speak at the October 24meeting of the Nasketucket Bird Club at 7:00 pm at the Mattapoisett Public Library. His topic and “true passion” is Tropical Ornithology.
Mr. Clarkson is based at URI and has spent the last four years mapping the distribution and abundance of all breeding, wintering and migrating birds in the state. As you might imagine, the changes in our avifauna are sobering in some cases and encouraging in others.
An avid conservationist, Mr. Clarkson has been leading birding and tropical ecology tours of Panama. Having approximately 1,000 bird species and significant environmental change, Panama is the ideal location to serve as a location-based classroom for tropical bird evolution, rainforest function and conservation. Please join us for his photos and stories of his trips to the tropics… maybe it will inspire you, too!
The Bird Club meetings, open to the public and handicapped accessible, are held at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library, located at the south door entrance on Barstow Street in Mattapoisett. Check our website at: massbird.org/Nasketucket/ or email President Justin Barrett at jmbarrett426@gmail.com