MASSENA — Nicandri Nature Center is going to the birds on Sunday, June 25. The center is featuring two avian education programs, one of which features live raptors.

Nicandri Nature Center, 23 Robinson Bay Rd., will kick off the day at 12:30 with “Flight! A program on how animals take to the sky.”

Participants will learn how animals take flight in a fun, hands on program for all ages.

“Flight!” starts the 4-part summer series "Nature In Flight,” a partnership between Nature Up North, Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County, Indian Creek Nature Center, and The Nicandri Nature Center.

Additional programs in the series:

• July 8, 10 a.m. Impressive Insects at Cornell Cooperative Extension Learning Farm

• July 22, 8 a.m. Breathtaking Birds at Wachtmeister Field Station

• Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m. Bat Bonanza at Indian Creek Nature Center

After “Flight!,” Mark Manske of Adirondack Raptors Inc., returns to Nicandri with a live raptor program starting at 2 p.m.

Manske will provide a detailed look at birds of prey.

He will be joined by several raptors that attendees can see up close.

Manske established Adirondack Raptor Inc. in 2008 and is the sole owner of the company. He was a public school educator for 27 years, an Adjunct Professor at Paul Smiths College from 2007 to 2012 and from 2015 to the present, a wildlife rehabilitator from 1994 through 2002, a master falconer since 2003, a master raptor bander since 1988, and a licensed nuisance wildlife control agent from 2008 through 2012.

Manske has also published stories in his column in the EMBARK, a periodical that is published every other month by the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in Saranac Lake.

He has published several articles on birds of prey in scientific journals through the years.

Mark trained under the tutelage of Drs. Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom (graduate students of Aldo Leopold and world renowned biologists) in the early 1980s at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.

The mission of Adirondack Raptors is to educate the public about the importance of birds of prey in the environment, and to manage and conduct research local raptor populations in order to protect the species, its website said.

Both programs are free and open to all ages. The Nicandri Nature Center is funded by The New York Power Authority.

Info: 315-705-5022, info@massenanaturecenter.com, http://www.nicandrinaturecenter.org .