Maria Mitchell Association: Winter Naturalist Speaker Series

On March 6th, Vince Murphy will speak. Murphy, an ecologist who has worked with a large variety of species and habitats in Europe and North America. Murphy is now the Protected Species Technician for the Town of Nantucket. His talk entitled “Nantucket’s Protected Shore Birds” is about the protected species that breed around Nantucket each summer and the Town’s efforts to protect these species. The legal standing, conservation strategies, future management, and beautiful pictures of shorebirds will be featured in his talk.