Where: The Bates House, 1 Bates Rd, Setauket- East Setauket, NY 11733, USA (map)
Description: Summer Lecture Butterflies, Birds & Habitats - Guest Speaker: Rick Cech
Beginning birders quickly become aware of the close link between “target” birds and specific kinds of natural areas. It is rewarding to reach the point where one can walk about and say,“Ah, this is the kind of place I’d expect to see a nesting Blue-winged Warbler.” The rarer the bird, the more useful it is to understand habitat associations.
When developing more broadly as a naturalist, one begins to realize that other kinds of creatures also have key habitat affiliations. And, just to keep it interesting, these habitat imperatives often differ greatly from one biological group to another, driven by different ecological considerations. It all ties together in the end, but there are many opportunities to develop heightened awareness along the way. This lecture will explore how butterflies and habitats co-exist, with a comparison to bird life ecology for perspective, and withan emphasis on the U. S. east coast.
Rick Cech is an active field naturalist, author, and photographer.He is an affiliate curator at Yale Peabody Museum of NaturalHistory in Entomology, and past president of the Linnaean Society of New York. Among other publications, he is the authorand photographer of Butterflies of the East Coast: An Observer's Guide (Princeton, 2005). He has taught butterfly identification and nature photography at the New York Botanical Garden, and given programs on varied topics at numerous nature associations. He co-authored the National Audubon Society Regional Guide to Florida and introductory chapters of the Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior, and produced text and photographs fora series of regional introductory guides to butterflies. Rick's photography has been widely published in books, articles, photo exhibits, and museum displays (including at the American Museum of Natural History and Bronx Zoo). He has led nature trips since the early 1980s.
The Bates House is located at One Bates Road, East Setauket
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