OLLI Members & Friends Event: Birds of Greece

Birds of Greece

Tuesday, March 10

7 p.m.

Free and open to the public

In person or online via Zoom

Wischamper Center, room 133

University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Southern Maine

Registration required; call the OLLI office at (207) 780-4406.

Rick Steber, past-president of the Tin Mountain Conservation Center in Albany, N.Y., will discuss the nuances of birding in Greece in this special talk. Rick spent two months in Greece during April and May of 2024. He will talk about birding on the island of Crete and in northern Greece at Lake Kerkini.

This presentation will be more than just a slideshow of birds. Rick will share experiences gained in numerous habitats and regions, including the peculiarities and challenges of birding in Greece. If you have any plans for traveling and birding in Greece (or elsewhere) this talk is for you! Greece and its birds offer a unique world for anyone with a curious mind. Come and learn more about that world.

Since permanently relocating to the White Mountain region in 2013, Rick Steber has been an active member of the Tin Mountain Conservation Center where he has been a board member for nine of the last 10 years, serving as Board Chairman from 2018 to 2021. He recently retired from the board of directors. Originally from Watkins Glen, N.Y., he has had a lifelong interest in nature, conservation, and especially birds. These interests led him to SUNY College of Forestry at Syracuse University where he earned a BS in Engineering. For the past 50 years Rick and his wife, Jean, who now reside in Glen, N.H., have lived in eight different locations, most notably London, England.

Co-sponsored by the Hellenic Society of Maine.