NOTE THE EARLIER START TIME! Join us for a special evening celebrating Delaware Bird-a-Thon’s 20 years of conservation success in person only at the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science! The event is free and open to everyone but you must register in advance. From Prime Hook to Passmore Farm, DOS Conservation Chair Matt Sarver … Read more
Summary: Lorna Gibson’s new book, Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders, draws on her experience as a professor of engineering at MIT and as a lifelong birder, to describe how birds work from an engineering perspective. Feathers, bones, bills, eggs, flight: all come in for scrutiny, sometimes at the microscopic scale, sometimes at a more … Read more