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WNC Sierra Club Presents: International Birding and Climate Change
Wed, Apr 02
|UNCA OLLI Center
Simon Thompson, an international birding expert, will discuss surprising effects of climactic changes on North Carolina’s and the world’s wild bird populations. In person and virtual (see details for Zoom link info) This free program is open to the public.
Time & Location
Apr 02, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
UNCA OLLI Center, 300 Campus Dr, Asheville, NC 28804, USA
About the event
Simon Thompson, an international birding expert, will discuss surprising effects of climactic changes on North Carolina’s and the world’s wild bird populations. He will speak to the WNC Sierra Club at 7 PM on April 2, in the UNCA OLLI/Reuter Center, at 300 Campus Drive. Zoom link available here: https://www.sierraclub.org/north-carolina/wnc This free program is open to the public.
Thompson says our area is not getting the consistently cold winters it once did, and that affects how and where birds spend the winter. Lake areas remain open longer and waterfowl seem to stay further north unless serious weather surrounds the Great Lakes.Thompson will show brightly colored photographs of breeding birds coming through western North Carolina in the spring, along with the winter plumage of birds that stay here in the winter. He will also share some beautiful birds found on his tours.
Through his organization, Ventures Birding Tours, Thompson led birding expeditions across…
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