• Wednesday, October 28, 2009, The Owl and The Woodpecker: Encounters with North America's Most Iconic Birds

Date

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Speaker

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Parking:
On site and free.

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Title

The Owl and The Woodpecker: Encounters with North America's Most Iconic Birds

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Award-winning photographer Paul Bannick will take you on a visual journey of 11 key North American habitats through the needs of North America's owl and woodpecker species. This stunning photographic study will be accompanied by field stories, and rich natural history derived from thousands of hours in the field. His talk will look at the way owls and woodpeckers define and enrich their habitat and how their life-histories are intertwined.

Early reviews of Paul's first book include the following:

"The Owl and the Woodpecker is a monumental work of photojournalism by one of North America's top wildlife photographers. The images you'll encounter in this book are the result of an encyclopedic knowledge of birds and their habitats, an intense love of nature, and endless patience. For anyone who appreciates wild things and wild places, each of Bannick's stunning photographs is worth ten thousand words."

"What a glorious book! Paul Bannick's photographs reveal the startling beauty and complex survival strategies of the owl and the woodpecker, North America's most charismatic - and crucial - cavity-nesting birds. These are images to savor again and again."

About the Speaker

Paul is an award winning photographer whose work has appeared in Audubon, Sunset, and Pacific Northwest Magazines, and in many books including the recently published National Wildlife Federation Guide to North American Birds, Smithsonian Guide to North American Birds as well as in many parks, refuges and other places in North America and Europe.

Paul works full time for Conservation Northwest, a conservation organization dedicated to protecting and connecting wild areas from the Pacific Coast to the Canadian Rockies and the biodiversity of these areas.