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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 […]

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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., […]

Speaker of the Month

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

RDRN Announcements/Refreshments – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Natalie Lifshitz – 8:00 p.m. Topic: Relationship between Coloration of Tree Swallows and Metal Pollution Dr. Natalie Lifshitz will be sharing her findings about the relationship between coloration of Tree Swallows and metal pollution, and the potential to measure this using digital photography.  

Speaker of the Month

Red Deer College 100 College Blvd, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Derocher, PhD, MSc, BSF (Hon)  U of A Faculty of Science, Professor of Biological Sciences February 27, 2020 7:30 p.m. Red Deer College Room 2602. A joint presentation by the RDC Science Department and Red Deer River Naturalists Topic: Trouble at the Top: Polar Bears In A Warming Arctic Dr. Drocher's current […]

Speaker of the Month – THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

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

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Speaker: April Martinig -  Behavioural Ecologist March 26, 2020 - 7:30 p.m. held at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre Topic: Going the Distance: The Local Vacancy Game and How it Changes Dispersal of Red Squirrels April Martinig is a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta. Her research explores animal […]

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The Red Deer River Naturalists acknowledges the traditional territory north of the Red Deer River of Treaty Six of the Blackfoot, Cree, Dene, Nakota Sioux (sue), and Saulteaux (sawl-toh) Peoples, the traditional territory south of the Red Deer River of Treaty Seven of the Niitsitapi (nee-itsee-TAH-peh) (Blackfoot), Siksika (seeg-see-kah), Piikani (pee-kah-nee), Kainai (g-ai-nah), Tsuu T’ina (soot-tenna), Stoney Nakota Peoples and the Battle River Territory District Three Métis Nation of Alberta.
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