Monday 26 October 2020

[cobirds] Dave Leatherman at Boulder Audubon program tomorrow night, Oct 27

Please join us on Tuesday Oct 27 at 7:15 for Boulder County Audubon’s next program.

 

The Webs of Life: Arachnids – ONLINE MEETING

Spiders, like snakes, are an animal group of which humans seem instinctively afraid. That is unfortunate because they truly are both remarkable and important. Join Boulder County Audubon on October 27th as we learn about spiders and their webs as key parts of bigger food webs, ID features, life history habits of the major groups and spider sex. We will discuss spiders doing photo shoots with bicyclists, winning contests, and as urban legends. We are sorry that we cannot offer personal “spider therapy” by inviting audience members to come forward to hold a tarantula – Zoom has not progressed that far. Yet.

Dave Leatherman was born and raised within the shadow of Ohio State University’s football stadium, where he began birding and bugging as a child. His education includes a BS in biology from Marietta College and an MF degree in forestry from Duke University. He is a retired entomologist previously employed by the Colorado State Forest Service for 32 years. Dave is a superb all-round naturalist. Many of you will be familiar with “The Hungry Bird” column which he writes for the journal Colorado Birds and his reports to COBirds from Grandview Cemetery, documenting the breeding and migrating birds that use this treed graveyard and what they consume. He also studies Loggerhead Shrikes and their impaled prey, dragonflies and about every other insect, adeptly photographing and sharing his research.


When: Tuesday October 27, 2020.   The presentation starting at 7:15 PM. Everyone is encouraged to join early to work through any connection issues (the meeting room will be open at ~7:00 PM).

Where: This meeting will be held online. All participants will be muted upon entry to the meeting room. The chat feature will be on so you can write questions for the speaker.

To join the meeting, click this link to be directed to the meeting room:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85992770147?pwd=WVNTVEEwNDltbkhGcXpZbG5Db3U4QT09

If the link above does not work, you can join by going to https://zoom.us/ and entering the Meeting ID and Password (below).

If you wish to join audio by telephone, you can also call either numbers below or find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbcR2jiLKa. We highly recommend you also join the meeting by video (but don’t connect audio) due to the visual nature of this presentation.

  • +1 301 715 8592 US
  • +1 253 215 8782 US

Meeting ID: 859 9277 0147

Password: 927478

 

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