• ZOOM Meeting – April 20, 2021 – Birding in Costa Rica – 7 pm

    This program will be held via a virtual ZOOM Meeting due to COVID 19.  Tuesday. 4/20/2021;   7:00 -  8  pm Speaker: Chris Fisher Birding in Costa Rica Costa Rica has an area only slightly more than Vermont & New Hampshire put together.  Yet it is home to over 850 different bird species - More […]

  • Audubon Bird Mural Project: A Virtual Walking Tour – 11/16/2021

    Zoom Program November 16, 2021 at 7 pm Speaker:  Leigh Hallingby Watch for e-mail with Zoom link Audubon Bird Mural Project: A Virtual Walking Tour The Audubon Mural Project is an impressive effort to create murals of over 300 North American birds. Most of the murals are in the Harlem neighborhoods of Hamilton Heights and […]

  • Myths and Misconceptions of Black Bears – 3/22/2022

    Zoom Program - March 22 - 7 pm Speaker:  Spencer Peter Watch for e-mail with Zoom link Myths and Misconceptions of Black Bears The North American Bear Center (NABC) in Ely, Wisconsin, is dedicated to advancing the long-term survival of bears worldwide by replacing misconceptions with scientific facts about bears, their role in ecosystems, and […]

  • Springtime in Western Canada – 4/19/2022

    McAuley Residence Auditorium 275 Steele Rd., West Hartford, CT, United States

    This will be an in-person event. Location: McAuley Residence Auditorium Speaker: Chris Fisher Springtime in Western Canada Join Chris & Diane Fisher in the first part of their 4-month trip to Alaska and back. In this multi-media presentation, Chris will take us across the Canadian Prairies and explore the Canadian Rockies up to the start […]

  • Birding the Andes – 10/18/2022

    McAuley Residence Auditorium 275 Steele Rd., West Hartford, CT, United States

    Join past President Sam Fried for his 41st program for HAS. He’ll be taking us on a roller coaster of a trip birding the Colombian Andes. Traveling from mountain valleys to mountaintops at 14,000 feet, from cloud forest to tropical lowlands, we had the pleasure of encountering 40 species of hummingbirds and my target bird […]

  • The Fascinating World of Owls – 11/15/2022

    Zoom Program at 7:00 PM / ZOOM MEETING - Link will be mailed to AllHAS  Speaker:  Denver Holt Denver Holt is the founder and president of the Owl Research Institute and a leading expert on owls.  He has been featured in articles from National Geographic to the New York Times as well as many TV programs.  […]

  • Effects of Climate Change on Migratory Patterns of Birds – 3/21/2023

    McAuley Residence Auditorium 275 Steele Rd., West Hartford, CT, United States

    Tuesday, 3/21/2023 Speaker:  Matthew Kamm Matthew Kamm has been birding since the age of eight and has followed his passion for nature (especially birds) throughout his schooling and professional work. After five years working for Mass Audubon's Bird Conservation Department, he went back to school at Tufts University to get his Ph.D studying how the […]

  • Saving Jemima – 4/18/2023 (Via Zoom Meeting)

    Tuesday, April 18, 2023 via Zoom Please Note: You will receive an email to be sent by April 16 which will have the Zoom meeting link if you wish to attend. Speaker: Julie Zickefoose Naturalist/artist/writer Julie Zickefoose thinks of herself as an unsung, minor, rather dirty superhero. Her superpower: saving small, economically worthless wildlife that […]