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  • Insect Focus Group

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

    Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Diptera order Diptera – true flies. The Diptera include flies, mosquitos, gnats, midges, and no-see-ums. There are about 120,000 known species of true flies alive today. […]

  • 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 […]

  • Board Meeting

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

  • Insect Focus Group

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

    Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Diptera order and a healthy review of the Coleoptera order Diptera – true flies. The Diptera include flies, mosquitos, gnats, midges, and no-see-ums. There are about 120,000 known species of true flies alive today. Dipterans typically have sucking mouth-parts, and may feed on plant juices or on decaying organic matter. A number of dipterans […]

  • 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 […]

  • Board Meeting

    RDRN Office Kerry Wood Nature Centre

  • Insect Focus Group

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

    Your Host:  Don Wales Topic: Hymenoptera (Bees and wasps)  Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. They have four transparent wings and the females typically have a sting.

  • Bird Focus Group Walk

    Rotary Park 4837 43 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

    Location: Kin Kanyon Park Meet at Rotary Park Picnic area parking lot. Host: Keith Kline Bring your binoculars, camera and dress for the weather. All are welcome, you do not have to be a member to attend.

  • 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 […]

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Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
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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.
We hope to serve and protect the traditional lands and waters with respect and commitment. Together, we can be a voice for nature.