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• Growing the Next Generation of Birders

  • When
    3 Nov 2025
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    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Five Rivers EEC and Zoom

  Speaker: George "Schoolyard Naturalist" Steele
  

  This program is about adults working with children and families with children. George will share stories of his experiences of birding with kids, tips on working with youth, thoughts on what individuals and clubs might do to bring birding to children.

  Professional educator George Steele has been teaching about nature for more than 55 years, since his start as a 16 year old nature counselor in a Boy Scout Camp. George earned his BS in Forest Biology from SUNY College of ESF, and is past director of the NYSDEC Environmental Education Camp Program. He spent two years working in the NYSDEC Endangered Species Unit primarily with the Bald Eagle Release Program. Since 1992, he has been an independent environmental educator.  

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• Birding Argentina

  • When
    1 Dec 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Five Rivers EEC and Zoom

  Holiday party and program - Birding Argentina

  Speaker: Gregg Recer

  Argentina is a surprisingly big country, the second-largest by area in South America, stretching nearly 4000 km from the northern border with Bolivia to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. Within that span a huge variety of habitats occur including tropical forest and wetlands, the arid Altiplano, Andean foothills and highlands, Pampas grasslands, flat and windy Patagonia, about 1500 miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, and glacier-topped peaks surrounding Southern Beech forest at the tip of continent. With all that variety comes a very big variety of birds -- toucans, hummingbirds, rheas, penguins, flamingoes, tubenoses, parrots, and a tremendous range of furnariids, just to mention a few. Gregg Recer and Cathy Graichen visited the country briefly in 2018, and on two birding tours in 2024 that covered the entire length of the country. This talk will share their experiences throughout the incredibly birdy and scenic country.

  Gregg Recer is a former HMBC president. He and his wife, Cathy Graichen, have been HMBC members since 1989 and have been focused on world birding for over 20 years.  

  
  

  

  Beagle Channel lighthouse

  
  

  

  James' Flamingo

  
  

  

  Jujuy Province scenery

  
  

  

  Dolphin Gull

  
  

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