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Join us and Pam Torlina, a biologist with Conserving Carolina, for a presentation on plant and animal interactions. Plants and animals interact in many fascinating and complex ways that play an important role in the survival of both. Torlina will discuss many different topics including why hummingbirds are attracted to red flowers, why some plants appear to never be visited by animals, and why or how a plant would eat an animal!
About Pam Torlina
Torlina, a biologist, has been with the Conservancy for 19 years. She has over 25 years of experience as a field biologist, naturalist, and outdoor educator. She has worked with the South Carolina State Park Service, the City of Greenville Parks and Recreation-Youth Bureau, the New York State Office of Parks and Recreation and Historic Preservation, and Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve, in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada, where she has performed annual migratory and breeding bird surveys, surveys on nocturnal owls, hawks and woodpeckers, presented educational programs on birds for adults and children, conducted nest searches and nest record data in the U.S. and Canada, she has volunteered with a licensed bird bander, and she has participated in data collection for the most recent Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas and is currently a co-coordinator for the North Carolina Bird Atlas, region 9.