{"id":2776,"date":"2012-02-13T15:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=2776"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:59","slug":"innis-point-bird-observatory-30th-anniversary-dinner-and-silent-auction","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/event\/innis-point-bird-observatory-30th-anniversary-dinner-and-silent-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Innis Point Bird Observatory 30th Anniversary Dinner and Silent Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">With a Special Guest Speaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">MICHAEL RUNTZ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cLovers, Killers, Hoarders and Thieves: theUntold Story of Birds&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael has been an enthusiastic birdwatcher since the age of five. He has worked as an interpretive naturalist in provincial and national parks, conducted biological surveys across Ontario, hosted an international television series Wild by Nature, published 10 books on natural history (the latest is titled Natural History), written more than 1,000 newspaper and magazine natural history articles, and currently teaches Natural History and Ornithology at Carleton University. Through the years, Michael has received numerous awards including the Council of Canadian University Biology Chairs Public Science Education Award, and the Carleton University Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets: $40 (or $300 for an eight\u2010person table)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cash Bar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free Parking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchase tickets by February 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No tickets sold at the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-2776","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2012-02-28T18:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2012-02-28T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"$40","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"e.slump@rogers.com","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}