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Burchfield Penney Art Center
1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo
is located on the campus of SUNY Buffalo State in Buffalo, New York
FREE Parking at Burchfield
Each program will run about 30-45 minutes
All Programs are free. Donations at the site gratefully accepted.
1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo
is located on the campus of SUNY Buffalo State in Buffalo, New York
FREE Parking at Burchfield
Each program will run about 30-45 minutes
All Programs are free. Donations at the site gratefully accepted.
SCHEDULE. (All TIMES ARE APPROXIMATE)
10:00 AM
Terning the Tide: How building an island in the Niagara River is helping the Uncommon Common Tern.
Presenter: Connie Adams NYS Department of Conservation
Learn about places like Tern Island, Motor Island, Strawberry Island, Cormorants, Blue Herons, Green Herons, Night Herons, Great Egrets, and other nesting species and places in the Niagara River. Connie Adams has been working on conservation of colonial waterbirds for over 30 years in the Niagara River and her work has helped this region recover from devastating losses
10:45 AM Early Accounts of Birds on the Niagara
Presenter: Andrew Gaerte
Visitors to Niagara Falls from the 17th to the early-19th centuries wrote in amazement of the birds seen surrounding the Niagara River. Birds of all sorts were documented in "great numbers" and "multitudes" by the European naturalists, military officers, and travelers who visited one of the period's great wonders of the world. Indigenous inhabitants of the Niagara region also interacted with the local birds and shared their stories with colonial visitors. A review of historical written and pictorial records, along with archeological remains, will inform today's birders about the types of birds seen historically in our region and how things have changed over the past 200 - 300 years.
Andrew Gaerte has been a nature and history nerd from an early age. He is an active birder in the WNY region and member of the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Andrew is currently the Associate Vice President, Gift Planning at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. He has a masters in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and a love for 18th century American history. In his free time, Andrew likes researching about how humans interact with nature. His favorite bird is the American Kestrel.
11:30 AM
The New York State Breeding Bird Atlas
Presenter: Mike Morgante, Buffalo Ornithological Society
New York Breeding Bird Atlas III – Year 4 Update and Priorities.
Or, if we think it will be more beginners than birders familiar with the atlas, it could be New York Breeding Bird Atlas III – Introduction and Year 4 Update.
12:15 PM The Western New York Wildway
Presenter Marisa Riggi, Deputy Executive Director Western New York Land Conservancy
The Western New York Land Conservancy is creating the WNY Wildway, an ambitious long-term project to protect and connect the largest of WNY's remaining forests. Our planet is facing twin emergencies: global climate change and a precipitous loss of biodiversity. The WNY Wildway is the Land Conservancy's plan to ensure our region remains connected and ecologically resilient.
1 PM
Lights Out and Bird Safe Communities
Most glass windows, regardless of type, location, or size, are a danger to wild bird populations, especially when birds are migrating through densely populated areas, including cities. This talk will explore the root cause behind bird-window strikes, their impact on the city of Buffalo, and some solutions that everyone can implement to make Buffalo a more bird-friendly city.
Presenter: Alex Sidare (they/them) is a recent graduate of Canisius College with a Bachelors of Science in Biology. They have been doing research with the avian biology lab at Canisius for 4 years and are currently applying to graduate school in behavior ecology and related fields.
1:30 PM Walking the Talk: A Two-Row Wampum Approach to Environmental Conservation and Protection
Presenter Jason Corwin
Jason Corwin is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo Department of Indigenous Studies, a citizen of the Seneca Nation, and a lifelong media maker. He was the founding director of the Seneca Media & Communications Center and has produced several short and feature length documentaries. Jason has extensive experience as a community-based environmental educator utilizing digital media to engage with Indigenous ways of knowing, sustainability, and social/environmental justice topics. He holds a PhD in Natural Resources from Cornell University.
2:30 PM
Diversions along the “Frontier” The Ongoing Biocultural History of Niagara
Learn about the natural and human history of the Niagara River region and how this links to ongoing assaults on a way of life in the name of progress.
Presenter: Neil Patterson Jr. was born into the White Bear Clan as a citizen of the Tuscarora Nation. He is the Associate Chair of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. Neil founded the Tuscarora Nation’s Environment Program as a delegate to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force in 1997, and currently serves as the Tribal Co-Chair of the USEPA Tribal Science Council. He hunts, fishes, and raises traditional foods with his family on the currently recognized territory of the Onondaga Nation.
3:15 PM
AOC to AOP (Areas of Concern to Areas of Protection) Physical integrity and the Niagara River: the missing link in restoring and maintaining the Great Lakes.
Presenter: Margaret Wooster
Buffalo's Outer Harbor is part of the Niagara River Area of Concern (AOC)--one of 43 AOCs targeted in the 1987 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement whose purpose is "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes ecosystem." Pollution reduction and habitat improvements have aided recovery but, according to the 2022 State of the Lakes report, physical integrity in Erie-Niagara continues to decline--especially as "cleaned up" AOCS attract unsuitable new development. Margaret's talk will focus on how development and enforcement of protective land use laws can support the physical integrity of the largest freshwater ecosystem in the world. Margaret was a founder of Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, executive director of the binational Great Lakes United, and adjunct professor of urban and watershed planning at the University of Buffalo. She is the author of two books on the Great Lakes and their New York tributaries--Meander (2021) and Living Waters (2009).
3:45 PM
Roundtable: The Future of Conservation and Development in the Niagara Greenway, Buffalo Outer Harbor, and Fort Erie
Presented by: Western New York Environmental Alliance
Moderator: John Whitney
Participants Margaret Wooster, Marcie Jacklin, Jason Corwin, Neil Patterson, Jay Burney
Learn about how the present and future intersect with coming generations as we discuss how, where, and what is being developed in the international Niagara River region.
4:40 PM Lights Out WNY Young Birders
Join these Young Birders as they close the Birds On Niagara Saturday Presentations at Burchfield Penney Art Gallery with a brief onstage rally for birds, for the future, and for people!
Terning the Tide: How building an island in the Niagara River is helping the Uncommon Common Tern.
Presenter: Connie Adams NYS Department of Conservation
Learn about places like Tern Island, Motor Island, Strawberry Island, Cormorants, Blue Herons, Green Herons, Night Herons, Great Egrets, and other nesting species and places in the Niagara River. Connie Adams has been working on conservation of colonial waterbirds for over 30 years in the Niagara River and her work has helped this region recover from devastating losses
10:45 AM Early Accounts of Birds on the Niagara
Presenter: Andrew Gaerte
Visitors to Niagara Falls from the 17th to the early-19th centuries wrote in amazement of the birds seen surrounding the Niagara River. Birds of all sorts were documented in "great numbers" and "multitudes" by the European naturalists, military officers, and travelers who visited one of the period's great wonders of the world. Indigenous inhabitants of the Niagara region also interacted with the local birds and shared their stories with colonial visitors. A review of historical written and pictorial records, along with archeological remains, will inform today's birders about the types of birds seen historically in our region and how things have changed over the past 200 - 300 years.
Andrew Gaerte has been a nature and history nerd from an early age. He is an active birder in the WNY region and member of the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Andrew is currently the Associate Vice President, Gift Planning at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. He has a masters in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and a love for 18th century American history. In his free time, Andrew likes researching about how humans interact with nature. His favorite bird is the American Kestrel.
11:30 AM
The New York State Breeding Bird Atlas
Presenter: Mike Morgante, Buffalo Ornithological Society
New York Breeding Bird Atlas III – Year 4 Update and Priorities.
Or, if we think it will be more beginners than birders familiar with the atlas, it could be New York Breeding Bird Atlas III – Introduction and Year 4 Update.
12:15 PM The Western New York Wildway
Presenter Marisa Riggi, Deputy Executive Director Western New York Land Conservancy
The Western New York Land Conservancy is creating the WNY Wildway, an ambitious long-term project to protect and connect the largest of WNY's remaining forests. Our planet is facing twin emergencies: global climate change and a precipitous loss of biodiversity. The WNY Wildway is the Land Conservancy's plan to ensure our region remains connected and ecologically resilient.
1 PM
Lights Out and Bird Safe Communities
Most glass windows, regardless of type, location, or size, are a danger to wild bird populations, especially when birds are migrating through densely populated areas, including cities. This talk will explore the root cause behind bird-window strikes, their impact on the city of Buffalo, and some solutions that everyone can implement to make Buffalo a more bird-friendly city.
Presenter: Alex Sidare (they/them) is a recent graduate of Canisius College with a Bachelors of Science in Biology. They have been doing research with the avian biology lab at Canisius for 4 years and are currently applying to graduate school in behavior ecology and related fields.
1:30 PM Walking the Talk: A Two-Row Wampum Approach to Environmental Conservation and Protection
Presenter Jason Corwin
Jason Corwin is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo Department of Indigenous Studies, a citizen of the Seneca Nation, and a lifelong media maker. He was the founding director of the Seneca Media & Communications Center and has produced several short and feature length documentaries. Jason has extensive experience as a community-based environmental educator utilizing digital media to engage with Indigenous ways of knowing, sustainability, and social/environmental justice topics. He holds a PhD in Natural Resources from Cornell University.
2:30 PM
Diversions along the “Frontier” The Ongoing Biocultural History of Niagara
Learn about the natural and human history of the Niagara River region and how this links to ongoing assaults on a way of life in the name of progress.
Presenter: Neil Patterson Jr. was born into the White Bear Clan as a citizen of the Tuscarora Nation. He is the Associate Chair of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. Neil founded the Tuscarora Nation’s Environment Program as a delegate to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force in 1997, and currently serves as the Tribal Co-Chair of the USEPA Tribal Science Council. He hunts, fishes, and raises traditional foods with his family on the currently recognized territory of the Onondaga Nation.
3:15 PM
AOC to AOP (Areas of Concern to Areas of Protection) Physical integrity and the Niagara River: the missing link in restoring and maintaining the Great Lakes.
Presenter: Margaret Wooster
Buffalo's Outer Harbor is part of the Niagara River Area of Concern (AOC)--one of 43 AOCs targeted in the 1987 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement whose purpose is "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes ecosystem." Pollution reduction and habitat improvements have aided recovery but, according to the 2022 State of the Lakes report, physical integrity in Erie-Niagara continues to decline--especially as "cleaned up" AOCS attract unsuitable new development. Margaret's talk will focus on how development and enforcement of protective land use laws can support the physical integrity of the largest freshwater ecosystem in the world. Margaret was a founder of Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, executive director of the binational Great Lakes United, and adjunct professor of urban and watershed planning at the University of Buffalo. She is the author of two books on the Great Lakes and their New York tributaries--Meander (2021) and Living Waters (2009).
3:45 PM
Roundtable: The Future of Conservation and Development in the Niagara Greenway, Buffalo Outer Harbor, and Fort Erie
Presented by: Western New York Environmental Alliance
Moderator: John Whitney
Participants Margaret Wooster, Marcie Jacklin, Jason Corwin, Neil Patterson, Jay Burney
Learn about how the present and future intersect with coming generations as we discuss how, where, and what is being developed in the international Niagara River region.
4:40 PM Lights Out WNY Young Birders
Join these Young Birders as they close the Birds On Niagara Saturday Presentations at Burchfield Penney Art Gallery with a brief onstage rally for birds, for the future, and for people!