Natural World

Find information about native trees, stream creatures, and birds in Northern NY.  Also learn about global climate change and local natural areas.  This website is put together by St Lawrence University’s Natural World class.

See photos taken during lab and nature photos taken by the class.

Mark Manske, raptor biologist visited our class.

To learn more about his work go to his webpage   http://www.adirondackraptors.org/

Mark regularly takes students out in the field with him. Contact him by email if you are interested.

Mark has banded over 5,000 raptors. Last winter he banded a hawk owl that overwintered in the Potsdam area. Watch the video

Mark told us about the speed records of diving Peregrine Falcons, over 240 miles per hr. Watch videos showing Peregrine dives and speed measurements:

video 1, video 2

Visit Mark’s website’s blog to find more of his interesting videos.