WINTER SAFARI IN AFRICA
Thursday, nOV. 14, 2024
Coronado Center Auditorium
Popular speaker Rusty Scarborough will return to the Coronado Center to present a slide presentation of his recent 16-day trip to Africa to HSV Audubon members and guests on November 14 at 10 a.m.
His trip included South Africa, including Boulders Penguin Colony and Seal Island. He visited and had a wine tasting at Groot Constantia, and a journeyed via cable car to Table Mountain.
He continued to Botswana to see Victoria Falls and Chobe National Park, where he did a drive safari and Chobe River tour. He enjoyed five days of safari in Kruger National Park, camping for three nights inside the park at Letaba, Shingwedzi and Punda Maria camps, and finished the trip at the Cradle of Humankind in Johannesburg.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Raised in the mixed pine/hardwood bottomland of rural northwest Louisiana, Scarborough came by his love of nature early in life. In his late teens, he was introduced to the exciting world of falconry.
Now, more than 30 years later, Scarborough has achieved the level of master falconer and is introducing others to the sport.
For more than 20 years Scarborough has presented birds of prey and falconry programs throughout Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana. He has trained and hunted a number of birds, including red-tailed hawks, Harris’s hawks, kestrels, red-shouldered hawks, Cooper’s hawks, ferruginous/Harris’s hybrids and golden eagles.
He has a Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife conservation, with a minor in microbiology from Louisiana Tech University.
After 10 years as education program coordinator for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Delta Rivers Nature Center in Pine Bluff (2000-2010), Scarborough moved back home to Louisiana.
He is currently the park manager for Caddo Parish Parks and Recreation’s Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park in Shreveport, Louisiana. In addition to managing the park, Scarborough continues his close work caring for and training the birds of prey collection at the park, which includes a bald eagle, owls, hawks and falcons.
Scarborough currently serves as president of the Arkansas Hawking Association.
Scarborough will bring two of his falconry birds to the program.