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The Snow Geese of Wrangel Island with Vasiliy Baranyuk
Please join us in welcoming renown Russian biologist Vasiliy Baranyuk to the Seattle during his lecture tour of the significant wintering areas for these geese from Vancouver, BC to Sacramento. He'll share with us his love of the land and wildlife, and especially the snow geese of Wrangel Island through a amazing lecture complete with videos and photos of this remarkable place and its magnificent inhabitants.
Wrangel Island, Russia (not to be confused with Wrangell Island, Alaska) is 7,600 km2 of the most remote Arctic wilderness on the planet. Located between the Chuckchi Sea and East Siberian Sea, it has been said that the only place harder to get to is the moon. But Wrangel Island has the highest density of polar bear dens in the world; twice as many plants as any other arctic tundra area of similar size; the last place on earth with a thriving woolly mammoth population (dying out only 4,000 years ago); seals, Arctic fox, Arctic wolves, walruses, lemmings, snowy owls; and the only breeding population of snow geese in Russia. This wilderness was declared a World Heritage site, the northern-most World Heritage site, in 2004.
In spite of its remoteness, Vasiliy Baranyuk has studied the island's wildlife for the past 30 summers, with stretches as long as 87 days without seeing another human. Vasiliy is a Russian biologist, specializing in the study of this unique population of snow geese. Wrangel Island's snow geese nest in an interior mountain valley andlike Antarctic penguinsflightless young walk an incredible distance (120 km) from the nesting colony to feeding areas near the sea.
6:30-7:00 Meet and greet with Vasiliy Baranyuk
7:00-8:00 Lecture and Presentation
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LocationSeward Park Audubon Center (View)
5902 Lake Washington Blvd S
Seattle, WA 98118
United States
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