10/7/2026 – 6 pm – “The Northern Peru Hummingbirds”

“Sparkling Violetear” photo credit: Serge Queant.

Umpqua Bird Alliance and the Roseburg Public Library presents:

 “The Northern Peru Hummingbirds”

By naturalist and video photographer

Serge Queant

6 p.m. Wednesday, October 7

It’s free to the Public

This program is only available in person at the

Roseburg Public Library, 1409 NE Diamond Lake Blvd.

Serge will take us on a tour of 8 well-known hummingbird reserves in Northern Peru featuring 35 different species of hummingbirds. You will see the largest and the smallest to the rarest and most beautiful of hummingbirds through his amazing video photography. You will feel like you are there, up close and personal.

Part 2 of the program will feature more of an assortment of birds that includes the Inca Tern, the Humboldt Penguin, the Andean Condor, the rare Diademed Sandpiper, as well as the most colorful of all tanagers, the Paradise Tanager.

Serge was born in Paris and became a naturalist when his eyes were opened to wildlife when he had a video camera in his hands. After college, he became an ethologist and studied a captive group of 11 chimpanzees for 9 years documenting their social behavior in comparison to those in the wild. Next he sought out snakes throughout Europe and North Africa, and in 1976 took his camera to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts. For 5 years he studied international gastronomy, and ended up being the Executive Chef of the World Trade Club of San Francisco and a guest Chef in the White House. In 2005 he retired to Roseburg, where he discovered a fascination for the avian world and has been an avid birder ever since.

For more information, contact Roseburg Public Library staff at 541-492-7050.

To learn more about Umpqua Bird Alliance, visit their website at www.umpquaaudubon.org. We are a chapter of the National Audubon Society.

Recognizing the strength that comes from diversity in both natural systems and human communities, we welcome all people, regardless of race, gender identity, sexual preference, age, levels of physical, cognitive, and social ability, or citizenship status. We continually seek to advance and prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion through our programs and partnerships.