Noah Strycker's presentation about penguins in Antarctica will kick things off on Friday, May 18 at 7:00 PM
Ice, penguins, and the cold comforts of living and working in Antarctica will be featured in a lively slide show by Eugene-area birder and author Noah Strycker, 26, to kick off the 2012 Ladd Marsh Birdathon. The free “Among Penguins” event is scheduled for Friday, May 18 at the Blue Mountains Conference Center, La Grande.
Strycker spent three months during the Antarctic summer researching and photographing a quarter-million Adélie Penguins. He slept in a tent in below-freezing temperatures, endured howling blizzards, and spent his days in the 24-hour sunshine watching loud, active, and smelly two-foot-tall penguins go about their business nesting, fighting, incubating, waddling, feeding, napping, sliding, diving, and swimming. Strycker recounts his experiences on the coldest, windiest, driest, least populated, highest, and most remote continent in his new book, Among Penguins: A Bird Man in Antarctica (Oregon State University Press, 2011).
