Birha Farooqi: Using Plants to Attract Bats

Name: Birha Farooqi: Using Plants to Attract Bats
Start: 2025-10-21T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-21T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Water Street Church, 287 Water St, Guelph ON

Schedule

Tue Oct 21 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Water Street Church, 287 Water St, Guelph ON | Guelph, ON

Join Nature Guelph Wildflower Society on Tuesday October 21 for a presentation by Birha Farooqi on bats, plants and pollinators.
Birha Farooqi is a graduate of McMaster University, Fleming College and Laurentian University, Birha currently works at Lotek Wireless, an international wildlife telemetry company that provides tracking technology solutions for biology research. Her role specializes in research looking at tracking Birds, Bats and Bugs. She is a science communicator. In her free time, she is an avid birder, gardener and fan of bats.
Photo: Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren, CC BY 2.0
COVID PROTOCOLS
Please do not attend if you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID.
ABOUT NATURE GUELPH
Nature Guelph is an active community of nature lovers connecting people with nature and inspiring them to celebrate and protect it. We host monthly Speaker Series presentations, offer interest-specific programs for wildflower and bird lovers, lead outdoor events that celebrate our natural spaces, and offer educational and inspiring youth programs. We also partner with other local, like-minded organizations on a number of local conservation, citizen science and advocacy initiatives.
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