PLEASE NOTE: THIS TRIP IS SOLD OUT AND THE WAITLIST IS FULL.
Leaders: Dr. Carron Meaney, former DMNS Curator of Mammalogy; Carol Kampert, former DMNS Educator; Andrew Doll, Zoology Collections Manager; Jeff Stephenson, Education Collections Manager.
Date: Monday, January 23, 2023; 9:45am -12:30am
Fees: $60.00 per person (museum admission included)
Limited to 8 people, location is Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Registration: Please see How to Register for an Interludes Trip to register.
This is a wonderful opportunity to have a private tour of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Vertebrate Zoology Collection with four (!) stellar leaders.
You will be shown the contents of climate-controlled cabinets and drawers where you can view many rarities including specimens of the extinct Carolina Parrot, Passenger Pigeon, the presumably extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker, as well as the critically endangered Kakapo, one of New Zealand’s flightless parrots.
Carron will talk about important mammal specimens including the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse and the last grizzly bear in Colorado from 1979. She will also talk about a collection of historically important bison skulls dating back to the late 1800’s that resulted in the publication of a paper on bison in Colorado west of the plains. The behind the scenes tour will end at 12:30.
After the tour, table will be reserved so that participants can enjoy either a brown bag lunch or purchase food from the Museum Cafeteria. Participants are welcome to stay longer and partake of the world famous dioramas, the special exhibits, IMAX or the planetarium shows (any necessary reservations for activities after the tour must be made by the participant).
Participants will need to meet at 9:45 a.m. at the museum’s main entrance. Participants may want to arrange carpooling from the Boulder area once we have a participant list.
This trip is part of the Interludes with Nature field trip series. These trips are led by the area’s most knowledgeable birders and naturalists who take participants to places they wouldn’t often get to see. Monies raised by this important fundraising tool send our Teen Naturalists to birding camps.