CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Syndicated nature columnist Scott Shalaway, whose "The Wild Side" column appears in the Sunday Gazette-Mail, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a number of other publications, will give two birding-related talks in Charleston on Sunday.
Shalaway will speak on "Birds of the Backyard and Beyond" during his first appearance, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Sunday during the annual West Virginia Book Festival in the Charleston Civic Center. That talk will focus on neotropical migrants - birds from South America, Central America and the Caribbean that travel annually to West Virginia to nest.
Shalaway's second talk will begin at 7 p.m. in the Clay Center's Electric Sky Theater, when he discusses "Tropical Adventures: The Galapagos Islands, the Ecuadoran Cloud Forest and Panama's Canopy Tower," a travelogue of his tropical birding adventures.
