Green WildLifing the Lockdown Naturalist

Speaker: Richard GregsonAbout the presentation: Richard Gregson has been an early advocate of Green Birding which means travelling to see birds by human power modes of transport such as walking, cycling and canoeing. The presentation will discuss the value of this approach to local birding, consider ways to maximise your species lists, and will look at some of the interesting species to be found on the edges of a major eastern city simply by walking up to them. Since Covid-19 has constrained our abilities to travel anyway I have been discovering many plants, insects and other non-avian groups close to home that previously I never spared a moment to stop and look at – perhaps you are finding the same?Having been born in England, Richard immigrated to Canada in 1998 and is based in the west of Montreal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. He originally expected entomology to pay the rent but got sidelined into a career in mammalian pathology and physiology. He is a former President of Bird Protection Quebec – Canada’s oldest bird conservation charity. He has now retired and has returned to unpaid field biology projects. He leads educational activities in a nearby arboretum owned by McGill university and has published field guides for local birders.“Non-members are welcome to attend the presentation and meeting. To facilitate their participation in the Zoom meeting, non-members will need to send, in advance, an email expressing their interest to douglasjgraham@me.com”