Save the date: Naturalist David Allen Sibley to speak at Keiser Lecture
7:30 p.m. on Tues., October 8
Freed Center for the Performing Arts
The 2024-25 Keiser Distinguished Lecture in Life Sciences Lecturer will be award-winning writer, artist, illustrator, and naturalist David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds, The Sibley Guide to Trees, and What It's Like to Be a Bird, and illustrator for Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. As an artist and as a bird enthusiast, Mr. Sibley has been recognized as one of the greatest scientific illustrators of our time as well as perhaps the most important illustrator of birds since Roger Tory Peterson.
David Allen Sibley is the author and illustrator of the series of successful guides to nature that bear his name, including the New York Times bestseller The Sibley Guide to Birds. He has contributed art and articles to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, BirdWatching, and North American Birds, and wrote an illustrated a syndicated column for The New York Times. He is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding Association and the Linnaean Society of New York’s Eisenmann Medal. He lives in Deerfield, MA.
There will be a book signing immediately following the lecture.
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