Join us for a bird talk: Earth Connectors – Our Backyard Birds. Suellyn Shupe will share her experience visiting the high-altitude Cloud Forest region of Guatemala in January 2025. The trip was arranged by ARC of Appalachia to the Community Cloud Forest Conservation site and was prompted by the discovery that 35 species of birds migrate between our regions. We will learn about the rich connections between the two regions, as well as the implications of climate change demonstrated by the drop in numbers of many of these species.
Suellyn Shupe has been an outdoors/nature person from childhood and has worked or volunteered in many nature learning and earth-supporting organizations, such as Girl Scouts, Bulls Run Arboretum (Middletown), Grailville, Imago & Enright Ecovillage, Highlands Sanctuary/Arc of Appalachia, and Western Wildlife Corridor.