Gary O. Rankin will present "Adventures of a Birder” from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday (July 9) at the Mountaineer Mall and on Zoom.
Rankin, who serves as the vice dean for research at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, has gone birding in most parts of the United States, as well as China, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rico, Ecuador, England and Germany.
In North America, he has seen 836 different bird species, and he has observed 319 bird species in West Virginia alone.