BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25@newtonconservators.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20010321T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20010321T210000 DTSTAMP:20181108T232815Z URL:https://newtonconservators.org/events/the-birds-and-the-bees-the-flowe rs-and-the-trees/ SUMMARY:The Birds and the Bees\, the Flowers and the Trees DESCRIPTION:Celebrating Biodiversity in Newton\n\nPeter Alden\nRenowned nat uralist\, author\, and lecturer\n\nPeter Alden\, well known naturalist and author\, will be the inaugural speaker in a new series of lectures sponso red by the Newton Conservators\, the local open space advocacy organizatio n. Alden\, a renowned birder and entertaining and informative speaker\, ha s led over 250 ecotours to over a hundred countries on all seven continent s and lectured all over the world for travel and museum organizations. His talk entitled\, "The Birds and the Bees\, the Flowers and the Trees - Bio diversity in Newton"\, will take place on Wednesday evening\, March 21\, 2 001 (coincidentally the vernal equinox).\n\nAbout the Speaker \nMr. Alden is the author of over a dozen nature field guides including the groundbrea king "National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England" (Knopf\, 1998). This book is an easy to use field guide for identifying 1\,000 of our reg ion's wildflowers\, trees\, mushrooms\, mosses\, fishes\, amphibians\, rep tiles\, birds\, butterflies\, mammals and much more. Other regional field guides in the series cover California\, Florida\, the Mid-Atlantic States\ , the Pacific Northwest\, Rocky Mountain States\, and the Southwestern Sta tes. For younger naturalists\, along with Roger Tory Peterson\, he produce d the Peterson First Guide to Mammals of North America and coloring books for both birds and mammals. Other of his books include "The National Audub on Society Field Guide to African Wildlife" (1995) and "Finding Birds Arou nd the World" (1982).\n\nThe Boston Globe review (5/24/98) of his regional field guides says\, "The guide series will appeal to all ages. Concise wr iting\, liberal use of sharp\, colorful photographs\, drawings\, and maps\ , and logical inclusions of representative species\, weather\, and habitat s found in the region make the guides real horizon expanders … For some this might be the patch of woods behind their house. For others it might b e their first visit to the Everglades. These guides could very well expand the base of people who are interested in and knowledgeable about the natu ral world." Signed copies of his field guide will be available before and after the lecture.\n\nPeter Alden was also the organizer of the world's fi rst Biodiversity Day in Concord / Lincoln on July 4\, 1998 with a team of experts identifying over 1900 species in one day. Biodiversity is a term u sed by scientists to measure the variety of different kinds of organisms f ound in a certain place. Last June\, in his work for the Massachusetts Exe cutive Office of Environmental Affairs under Secretary Bob Durand\, he spe arheaded the first ever statewide Biodiversity Days\, in which citizen nat uralists in over 80 Massachusetts towns went out into the field to do a sp ecies census. This provided a valuable and interesting snapshot of common and unusual species present both here in Newton and across the state of Ma ssachusetts. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://newtonconservators.org/wp-content/upload s/2018/11/alden.jpg CATEGORIES:Lectures LOCATION:Newton Free Library\, 330 Homer Street\, Newton Centre\, MA\, Unit ed States GEO:42.3358776;-71.2080211 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=330 Homer Street\, Newton C entre\, MA\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Newton Free Library: geo:42.3358776,-71.2080211 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20001029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR