Walden Ponds with Carl Starace

Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat 3893 N 75th St, Boulder, CO 80301

Join local birder Carl Starace for a morning of birding at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat. Possible birds are Osprey, Bald Eagle, Killdeer, Lesser or Greater Yellowlegs, White Pelican, Tree Swallow, Say's Phoebe.

A Tale of Two Pikas: from dueling subspecies to dueling visions of the future for an alpine icon

Boulder Unitarian Universalist Church 5001 Pennsylvania Ave, Boulder, CO 80303

There once was a fluffy little squeaky-toy of a species, the American pika, that was also a four-season alpinist. There are pikas that live their whole lives looking down on Everest Base Camp, and there are pikas that live in the desert heat of Lava Beds National Monument. So, which is it? Is the pika a hapless poster child for climate disaster, even though it manages to survive in some of the harshest landscapes on the planet? This talk will show the pika from many angles (and mostly in pictures rather than graphs), to celebrate the diversity and perfection of one of the many species that might soon become too rare to really study.