Cape Arago Audubon Society’s next program brings back by popular demand former Refuge Manager of the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex,  Roy Lowe. Join us on Tuesday, May 14 at the Bandon Public Library, 1204 11th St. SW, Bandon OR 97411. Roy’s program, “The Spectacular Birds of the Colombian Andes”, will begin at 7 PM.

Take a visual trip to South America with photographer Roy Lowe. Roy visited Colombia in March of 2023 and the trip was concentrated in the mountainous region of Colombia but ranged from near sea level to 13,000’ in the Andes Mountains. Colombia has the highest bird diversity in the world with more 2,000 species recorded. Roy’s presentation will feature a myriad of colorful images of many of the birds encountered from awesome mountain-toucans to brilliant tanagers, scintillating hummingbirds, secretive antpittas, and the bizarre but beautiful Andean Cock-of-the-Rock.

Roy Lowe is a resident of Waldport, Oregon. He graduated from Humboldt State University with a BS degree in Wildlife Management in 1977. He was employed with the US Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 37 years. At the time of his retirement in 2015, Roy was the Refuge Manager of the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex. In retirement he has worked with the Paulson Institute and World Wildlife Fund – Hong Kong to assist with training of coastal wetland managers in the People’s Republic of China and he has been monitoring the return of western snowy plovers to Lincoln County, Oregon following a 39-year absence.