PORT ANGELES — Vasiliy Baranyuk, a Russian biologist, will talk about the snow geese and other wildlife of the Wrangel Island Nature Reserve on Friday.
The presentation, which includes photographs, will be from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the conference room at The Landing mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave.
A $5 donation is suggested to cover costs. The program is free to members of the Arthur D. Feiro Marine Life Center, the host of the program.
Baranyuk has studied the Russian island’s wildlife for the past 30 summers, with stretches as long as 87 days without seeing another human.
He has specialized in the study of the island’s unique population of snow geese, said Deborah Moriarty, director of the Feiro center on City Pier in Port Angeles.
Wrangel Island’s snow geese nest in an interior mountain valley and — like Antarctic penguins — the flightless young walk an incredible distance, more than 74 miles, from the nesting colony to feeding areas near the sea.
Baranyuk also is a photographer who has three decades of still pictures and videos of the island’s wildlife.
For more information, phone the center at 360-417-6254.
The center is open weekends from noon to 4 p.m. or by special arrangement.
