Sperry-Galligar Audubon Society

Meetings  & Program Schedule

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  Meeting Date:
Meetings start at 7:00 P.M. - Room 102, Yates Hall, (across from the North end of PSU football stadium) at 1702 S. Joplin St., Pittsburg, KS.  Click here for a PSU campus map.  Click here for a Yahoo map.
Thursday
September 24, 2009
Larry Herbert (B.S. in Education and an M.S. in Biology from Emporia State) collaborates with Joyce Haynes (B.A. in Art from Louisiana State) to present “Penguins of the World", a unique program detailing the life histories of all the world's 17 Penguin species.  With painted life-size cutouts of each Penguin species by Haynes.  See photos: Photo #1  Photo #2
Thursday
October 29, 2009
Dr. Jim Triplett, Professor of Biology and former chair of the department for over 20 years at Pittsburg State University will report on “Water Issues in SEK”.  Sperry-Galligar Audubon was one of the local sponsors for his application to the Neosho Basin Advisory Committee, which he chairs.  This report is an update on where we are with respect to surface and groundwater quantities and quality, and what the Federal, State and local governments are doing to protect these resources.
No Meeting
November 2009
Due to conflict with Thanksgiving and Christmas, the November and December meetings have been combined, and held on December 3, 2009.
Thursday
December  3, 2009
Margaret & Steve Hoyle will present a power point program on their trip through the eastern Canada provinces with emphasis on birding.  Their journey covered 10,371, visiting unique fishing villages and the way of life in Newfoundland and Labrador, geology and world Heritage sites, the world's largest Northern Gannet colony, seeing many life bird species including Atlantic Puffins, Shearwaters, etc., even whales and icebergs. "
Thursday
January 28, 2010
"Spider Talk", presented by Joy Reed, graduate student at Pitt State Univ. - who said "I became interested in tarantulas through my daughter, who talked me into our first one more than a decade ago."  Currently, Reed is a contributing editor for the American Tarantula Society (ATS), a member of the British Tarantula Society (BTS) and is recognized as a tarantula breeder who currently keeps 400 spiders.  She has attended BTS expositions and lectures, looked for tarantulas in the desert southwest and traveled to Peru to look for rainforest tarantulas with arachnologist Rick West, one of the world's leading authorities on tarantulas. 
Thursday
February 25, 2010
"To be announced"
Thursday
March 25, 2010
"To be announced"
Thursday
April 29,
2010
"To be announced"
Thursday
May 27,
2010
6-9 P.M.
Sperry-Galligar Audubon Picnic, this year held on a Thursday at Homer Cole Pittsburg Community Center, 3003 North Joplin in Pittsburg, KS.
Summer Hiatus SGAS will not hold regular meetings in the months of June, July & August.


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