Tagged Animals and Nature
Dinosaurs: Animal History Before Humans (and After).
Join us on October 17th for a free Zoom presentation as Jessica Lepler, a historian at the University of New Hampshire, will offer a compelling program that may change the way you view both animals and human beings! Our…
Go Birds: Appreciating Our Avian Friends
From June 2nd to August 30th, 2025, visit the Second Floor Gallery West at the Parkway Central Library to view the Go Birds: Appreciating Our Avian Friends exhibition. Birds have long captivated humankind with their graceful…
Go Birds: Appreciating Our Avian Friends
From June 2nd to August 30th, 2025, visit the Second Floor Gallery West at the Parkway Central Library to view the Go Birds: Appreciating Our Avian Friends exhibition. Birds have long captivated humankind with their graceful…
Go Birds: Appreciating Our Avian Friends
From June 2nd to August 30th, 2025, visit the Second Floor Gallery West at the Parkway Central Library to view the Go Birds: Appreciating Our Avian Friends exhibition. Birds have long captivated humankind with their graceful…
Go Birds: Appreciating Our Avian Friends
From June 2nd to August 30th, 2025, visit the Second Floor Gallery West at the Parkway Central Library to view the Go Birds: Appreciating Our Avian Friends exhibition. Birds have long captivated humankind with their graceful…
Read to a Therapy Dog!
Independent readers and children who are learning to read are invited to practice their reading skills with a certified therapy dog from Comfort Caring Canines. Yes, you can pet them, too! Dogs will be accompanied by their handler…
Bartram’s Garden at the Library
Our friends from Bartram’s Garden will come visit the library to share nature lessons, crafts and activities with our neighbors. Join us in the outdoor storycircle in nice weather or indoors at the children’s area activity…
Read to a Therapy Dog!
Young readers are invited to share stories with Cene, a local certified therapy dog from Comfort Caring Canines. Children can take turns of up to ten minutes reading aloud in a judgment free space. Children ages 7 and under must be…
Birding Bingo with the Pennsylvania Game Commission!
Join us for a Birding Bingo scavenger hunt for children and their adults. There will also be birding coloring pages and give-aways and opportunities to learn more about the Pennsylvania Game Commision. The Pennsylvania…
Who's That Bird? Birding Basics for Kids
Join us for a feather-filled adventure as we learn how to tell birds apart by their colors, beaks and feet! After a short storytime, we'll explore what makes each bird special, discover how they eat and live, and even try some…
Read to a Therapy Dog!
Independent readers and children who are learning to read are invited to practice their reading skills with a certified therapy dog from Comfort Caring Canines. Yes, you can pet them, too! Dogs will be accompanied by their handler…
Bartram’s Garden at the Library
Our friends from Bartram’s Garden will come visit the library to share nature lessons, crafts and activities with our neighbors. Join us in the outdoor storycircle in nice weather or indoors at the children’s area activity…
Exploring Nature at Lovett Memorial Library
Come explore nature right here at Lovett Library. This program will help all ages experience the natural world right in our own neighborhood. What can we find that is colorful, fuzzy, sticky, smooth or fragrant? Can we tune…
Read to a Therapy Dog!
Young readers are invited to share stories with Cene, a local certified therapy dog from Comfort Caring Canines. Children can take turns of up to ten minutes reading aloud in a judgment free space. Children ages 7 and under must be…
Bird Hat Making Workshop: Part 1
Parkway Central Library Room 108 5:30 - 7:30 PM Join Special Collections and the Art Department for this two-part workshop and leave with your very own giant bird hat! In part 1, using recycled materials we will sculpt…
Birding Basics
Who’s That Bird? Join us for a feather-filled adventure as we learn how to tell birds apart by their colors, beaks, and feet! After a short storytime, we’ll explore what makes each bird special, discover how they eat and…
Why Do Birds Collide With Buildings? A talk by Audubon's Keith Russell
Why do birds collide with buildings? Most people love birds and the joy that they bring to our lives. But birds are in decline throughout the world. Here in the North America our wild bird populations are estimated to have declined by…
Bird Walk
Thursdays are for the birds! Join South Philly Library for a walk to Columbus Square Park & catch a glimpse of some neighborhood birds. We will have some binoculars and bird guides available for use during the program to help…
Owl Pellet Dissection with The Center for Aquatic Sciences
Owl Pellet Dissection: Owls are amazing birds of prey, but they have some weird habits around the dinner table. Follow along with the instructor as we learn a little more about these birds and figure out what owl pellets are, why…
Birding Storytime
The Pennsylvania Game Commission, our state's wildlife agency, will be leading a special storytime program all about birds! Children will learn about bird behavior through stories, crafts and an outside bird walk around the…
Gale in Context | Elementary (formerly Kids InfoBits) *
Elementary students in kindergarten through grade five will find age-appropriate content covering a broad range of educational topics such as animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, technology, etc. Kids…
Amy Tan | The Backyard Bird Chronicles
In conversation with Beth Kephart A “master of illusion, and one of the best storytellers around” (NPR), Amy Tan is the author of the beloved novels The Joy Luck Club , a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book…
Lydia Millet | We Loved it All: A Memory of Life
Praised for her “darkly funny and painfully sharp” ( Los Angeles Times ) fiction, Lydia Millet is the author of the novel A Children’s Bible , shortlisted for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 book of 2020; the…
Christian Cooper | Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition Central Park birder Christian Cooper is the host and consulting producer on the National Geographic channel’s Extraordinary Birder and is on the board of…
Geraldine Brooks | Horse
Geraldine Brooks won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her novel March , an “honorable, elegant, and true” ( The Wall Street Journal ) retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women from the point of view of the titular family’s absent…
Frans de Waal | Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
“A pioneer in primate studies” ( The Wall Street Journal ), Dr. Frans de Waal is the author of The Bonobo and the Atheist , an exploration of the biological roots of human morality found in primate social interaction. His other 16…
Elizabeth Kolbert | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Barbara Gohn Day Memorial Lecture In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalist “An astute observer, excellent explainer, and superb synthesizer” ( Seattle Times ), Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of the…
Jonathan Safran Foer | We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Renowned for placing “his reader’s hand on the heart of human experience” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ), Jonathan Safran Foer is the bestselling author of the frenetically irreverent, emotionally urgent novels Everything Is Illuminated ,…
Jacob Shell | Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants
In conversation with Nikil Saval, an editor of n+1 and author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace A professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University, Jacob Shell is the author of Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons,…
Dave Barry | Lessons from Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
A 30-year writer at the Miami Herald whose column was syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, humorist Dave Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988. His more than 30 New York Times bestselling books include I’ll Mature When…
Barry Lopez | Horizon
Barry Lopez won the National Book Award for Arctic Dreams , a “rich, abundant, vigorously composed” ( Boston Globe ) meditation on his travels in the barren but beautiful far North. His other work includes Of Wolves and Men , Crow and…
Adam Rutherford | Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature A New Evolutionary History
“A heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived delves into the…
Frans de Waal | Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal is the author of The Bonobo and the Atheist , a “tour de force” ( Nature ) exploration of the biological roots of human morality found in primate social emotions, including empathy, reciprocity, and…
Katrina van Grouw | Unnatural Selection
The former curator of the ornithological collections at London’s Natural History Museum, Katrina van Grouw is the author of The Unfeathered Bird . A sumptuous labor of love, this hybrid of art, science, and history features 385 detailed…
Loudon Wainwright III | Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes and Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things with Eileen Myles | Afterglow (a dog memoir)
Watch the video here . With a career spanning four decades, 26 studio albums, and untold scores of concerts, Loudon Wainwright III is one of the world’s most loved singer-songwriters. A prolific actor in a variety of television and…
Alexandra Horowitz | Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell
In conversation with Jason Freeman Cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz is the author of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know . Owing to its insight and plain-spoken lightness, the book pawed its way to no. 1 on the New…
Frans de Waal | Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal is the author of The Bonobo and the Atheist , a “tour de force” ( Nature ) exploration of the biological roots of human morality found in primate social emotions, including empathy, reciprocity, and…
Helen Macdonald | H is for Hawk and Shaler’s Fish
Naturalist Helen Macdonald won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for the bestselling H Is for Hawk , a “beautiful and nearly feral” ( New York Times ) chronicle of the devastating but transformative year she spent training a…
Philadelphia Honey Festival
The Philadelphia Honey Festival raises awareness about the importance of honey bees to our environment, our food supply and our economy, and to promote urban beekeeping and gardening. The 7th Annual Philadelphia Honey Festival will take…
Philadelphia Beekeepers Association
Givin' a durn about bees since 2009
Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association
Homepage of Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association
Pennsylvania Backyard Beekeepers Association
The homepage of the Pennsylvania Backyard Beekeepers Association
Montgomery Country Beekeepers' Association
Serving Montgomery, Bucks and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania, the MCBA is an association of hobbyist and professional beekeepers.
Chester County Beekeepers Association
The Chester County Beekeepers Association is located in Chester County, Pennsylvania and has a membership open to the public.
Burg Bees
Across the state, the Pittsburgh Beekeeping Association aims to introduce beekeeping to Pittsburghers in order to promote bees and beekeeping and in so doing, stewardship of the environment.
Bucks County Beekeepers Association
The Bucks County Beekeepers Association (BCBA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting beekeeping in the local community through education and resource sharing.
Bee Informed
The Bee Informed Partnership is a collaboration of efforts across the country from some of the leading research labs and universities in agriculture and science to better understand honeybee declines in the United States.