SLIDE LECTURES by William Burt
William Burt has presented a number of slide/lecture programs over the years to a variety audiences, including those below.
His three currently available lecture programs, all based on his books and exhibitions, are:
* Water Babies A portrait of the rarely seen downy young and adult birds of the wetlands – those that "get their feet wet," as it were – including ducks, grebes, gallinules and shorebirds, herons, etc. Based on the recent book.
* Marshes: The Disappearing Edens Explores a selection of the best of North America’s remaining marshlands, with an eye to their alluring beauty and their little-known elusive birds. Based on the 2007 book.
* Rare & Elusive Birds of North America Recounts the photographer’s 16-year adventure in search of the continent’s 20 most elusive “mystery birds,” as featured in the 2001 book.
To inquire about dates and fees, please contact William Burt at 860-434-8173 or by email
Selected Lecture Presentations
“Marshes: The Disappearing Edens” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut. September 14, 2017.
“Marshes: the Disappearing Edens” Litchfield Hills Audubon Soc., Annual Dinner, Litchfield, Connecticut. June 5, 2017.
“Water Babies” Connecticut Ornithological Association, Annual Meeting, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, Connecticut. March 18, 2017.
“Water Babies” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. December 4, 2015.
“Water Babies” Connecticut River Museum, Essex, Connecticut. October 8, 2015.
“Rare & Elusive Birds of North America.” The Hampshire Bird Club, Amherst, Massachusetts. October 20, 2014.
“Marshes: The Disappearing Edens.” O. C. Marsh Program Lecture, Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven. April 15, 2013.
“Marshes: The Disappearing Edens” and “Rare & Elusive Birds of North America.” Museum of the Red River, Idabel, Oklahoma. May 5 & 6, 2010.
“Marshes: The Disappearing Edens.” The Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania. January 9, 2009.
“Notes on Photography.” The Nature Conservancy, 2008 Annual Convention, Eastern Region, Norfolk, Virginia. May 30, 2008.
“Marshes: The Disappearing Edens.” The Nature Conservancy, 2008 Annual Convention, Eastern Region, Norfolk, Virginia. May 29, 2008.
“Rare & Elusive Birds of North America.” The Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, New York. December 4, 2007.
“Marshes: The Disappearing Edens.” University of Connecticut, American Experience Lecture Series at Avery Point. November 27, 2007.
“Marshes: The Disappearing
Edens.” Lecture and Gallery
Talk. Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum,
St. Michaels, Maryland. July 26 &
27, 2007.
“Marshes: The Disappearing
Edens.” Wilson Ornithological
Club, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
March 24, 2007.
“Rare
& Elusive Birds of North America.” Peabody
Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
April 2, 2004.
“Rare
& Elusive Birds of North America.” The
Williams School, New London, Connecticut.
March 31, 2003.
“Rare
& Elusive Birds of North America.”
O. C. Marsh Program Lecture, Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven. January 8, 2003.
“Shadowbirds.” Vaughn Memorial Lecture, Buffalo Museum of
Science, Buffalo, New York. April 24,
1996.
“Shadowbirds.” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. November 2, 1995.
“Shadowbirds.” Feature Presentation, Massachusetts Audubon
Society’s “New England Birders’ Conference,” Bentley College, Waltham,
Massachusetts. November 19, 1994.
“Shadowbirds.” Harvard Museum of Natural History (formerly “MCZ”),
Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 20,
1994.
“Shadowbirds.” Nuttall Ornithological Club at Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
April 4, 1994.
“Shadowbirds.” Linnaean Society at the American Museum of
Natural History, New York, New York.
September 28, 1993.
"Rails: the Shadowbirds of
Marshlands." Connecticut
Ornithological Association Annual Meeting at Connecticut College, New London,
Connecticut. March 27, 1993.