The Summer Lecture Series is held in the Norm Dicks Visitor Center auditorium. Seating is limited to 100 people, first-come, first-served. Tickets are available at 6 p.m., and doors open at 6:30.
Small but Feisty: An Introduction to Identifying and Attracting Local Hummingbirds
Kim Adelson is President of the Black Hills Audubon Society and Vice President of the Friends of Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. She is a retired university professor who spends her spare time – when she’s not out birding --- teaching others about birds, their role in our ecosystem, and the effects of climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.
Learn more about climate change upon them.
Instantly recognizable, hummingbirds are the miniature, fast-moving jewels of the bird world. They are quite different from other birds and serve an important role in our ecosystem. In this presentation, we will discuss how to recognize the species of hummingbirds found in Washington State, the traits that distinguish them and place them in their own order, and how to attract them to your yard with native plants and nectar feeders.