Speaker of the Month

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN Members Meeting/Coffee Time – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Bradley Peter, Alberta Lake Management Society – 8:00 p.m. Bradley will provide an overview of Citizen Science monitoring of lakes in Alberta, with a focus on the Red Deer River Watershed. Also new technology used to monitor lakes as well as emerging threats to aquatic ecosystems will be explored. Bradley Peter is […]

Speaker of the Month

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN Members Meeting/Coffee Time - 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Elly Knight - 8:00 p.m. Topic: Birds of the Unknown - Ecology & Conservation of Nightjars in Canada Thanks to their nocturnal and cryptic nature, Nightjars (Family Caprimulgidae)  have slipped through the ornithological cracks and are arguably the most poorly studied birds in North America.  Now, two of the […]

Speaker of the Month

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN Members Meeting/Coffee Time – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Wes Olson – 8:00 p.m. Topic: The Ecological Bison Bison once occupied most of North America and they had complex interactions with almost every other bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile that shared their ecosystem. With stunning photographs of bison across their historical range, this presentation highlights some of these […]

Speaker of the Month

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN General Meeting/Refreshments – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Sandra MacDougall – 8:00 p.m. Topic: Why did the Deer cross the road? Understanding the issues around animal/vehicle collisions in Alberta. Animal/vehicle collisions are a significant problem in Alberta affecting motorist safety and wildlife populations. Sandra will provide an overview of the magnitude of this issue in Alberta and […]

Speaker of the Month

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN General Meeting/Refreshments – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Mirjam Barrueto – 8:00 p.m. Topic: The Bigger the Better: Large Landscape Wolverine Research in Southern Alberta and BC Mirjam Barrueto is a wolverine researcher, PhD student at the University of Calgary, conservation biologist, climber, ultra-runner and back-country skier and has a MSc in Zoology from the University of […]

Speaker of the Month

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN General Meeting-Announcements/Refreshments - 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Fabien Mavrot – 8:00 p.m. Topic: Monitoring Health in a Declining Muskox Population: Challenges and Solutions in the Remote Arctic. Dr. Mavrot is a Swiss Veterinarian with a strong interest in wildlife and epidemiology. He wrote his Veterinary thesis on infectious keratoconjunctivitis in Alpine Ibex and Chamois at […]

Speaker of the Month – Susanne Maidment

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN General Meeting-Announcements/Refreshments – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Susanne Maidment – 8:00 p.m. Topic: Bird Banding: Owls to Hummingbirds Susanne Maidment will be sharing an evening with us on the Natural History of Hummingbirds and how to band them. Since 2006 Susanne has been banding hummingbirds. She states: "Wow, to hold a wild, healthy hummingbird is an […]

Speaker of the Month

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN Sightings/Announcements/Refreshments – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Carol Kelly, Executive Director of MRWC with OTIS the Owl – 8:00 p.m. Due to an illness our scheduled Speaker is not available. We wish to let you know that we will have OTIS in the house and Carol from the Medicine River Wildlife Centre who will update us […]

Speaker of the Month

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN General Meeting/Refreshments – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Zach Dempsey – 8:00 p.m. Topic: Phylogeography of the Terrestrial Land Snail, Oreohelix Come for an evening with Speaker Zach Dempsey, as he shares the biodiversity, phylogeography and conservation status of the Oreohelid Species Oreohelix, land snail of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Zach Dempsey completed his MSc in […]

RDRN Annual Banquet and Speaker

Pioneer Lodge 4324 46a Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

RDRN Annual Banquet – October 25, 2019 held at the Pioneer Lodge, 4324 - 46A Avenue Red Deer, Alberta. Tickets are $35.00 and available for purchase at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre until Monday October 21. You must purchase your ticket in advance they are not available at the door. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., […]