Seacoast Science Center
Saving a Species from Extinction, Protecting the North Atlantic Right Whale
Seacoast Science Center Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United StatesJoin the New Hampshire Audubon Seacoast Chapter for their in person November program. With fewer than 350 whales remaining, the North Atlantic right whale is one of the rarest large whale species in the world. Once a heavily targeted commercial whaling species, right whales remain vulnerable to contemporary human activities, including vessel strikes and entanglement […]
Hummingbirds, The Most Marvelous of Bird Families
Seacoast Science Center Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United StatesJoin the New Hampshire Audubon Seacoast Chapter for their in person October program: Hummingbirds, The Most Marvelous of Bird Families. Bob and Dana Fox have developed a new talk focusing on hummingbirds. They will begin with what is a hummingbird and then describe their adventures with 10 different, remarkable species they have seen on their […]
Marine Debris in the Gulf of Maine
Seacoast Science Center Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United StatesJoin the New Hampshire Audubon Seacoast Chapter for their in person September program: Marine Debris in the Gulf of Maine. The US and Canadian Partners have launched a binational effort to address marine debris in the Gulf of Maine. The Gulf of Maine Association has been awarded $367, 839 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
Monitoring and Managing New Hampshire’s Piping Plovers
Seacoast Science Center Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United StatesSeacoast Chapter Program Wednesday, June 15 Learn about how the Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department monitors and manages the federally threatened and state endangered Piping Plover population on Hampton and Seabrook Beaches. From working with town and state officials on beach maintenance to recruiting volunteers, see how […]
Birding 201
Seacoast Science Center Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United StatesSeacoast Chapter Program Wednesday, May 11 You know the basics, so let's focus on taking things to the next level. This interactive program by David Blezard will teach different tricks and tips, as we spend some time getting to know some of the more challenging groups of birds to identify within the northeastern US: sparrows, […]
Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Concord
Seacoast Science Center Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United StatesSeacoast Chapter Program Wednesday, April 13 Henry David Thoreau was a climate change scientist! For the past 18 years, presenter Professor Richard Primack and his team have been using Thoreau's records from the 1850s and other Massachusetts data sources to document the earlier flowering and leafing out times of plants, the earlier flight times of […]
New Hampshire’s Winter Birds
Seacoast Science Center Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United StatesNH Audubon's "Backyard Winter Bird Survey" is a citizen science project that has been collecting data on the state's birds since 1967. In this program, Dr. Pamela Hunt uses the Survey's data to illustrate how populations of our common winter birds have been changing over time. In the process, we'll explore many other aspects of […]
Avian Protection at NorthWestern Energy in Montana
Seacoast Science Center Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United StatesPower companies, wildlife agencies, and conservation organizations have collaborated for decades to reduce bird electrocutions and collisions with power lines. NorthWestern Energy in Montana implements an Avian Protection Plan across its entire electrical system. New power lines are constructed following bird-friendly standards and existing lines are retrofitted with bird protection devices where electrocutions or collisions […]
Birding the Lesser Antilles
Seacoast Science Center Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United StatesBob and Dana Fox visited 10 islands in the Lesser Antilles, a chain of islands in the southeast Caribbean in 2020. Their talk will discuss the amazing geology of the region, its rich history of sugar plantations and rum making and its wonderful birds. These islands exhibit a high degree of endemism and each island […]