The last Brooklyn Bird Club program for 2011 will be a very interesting one.
http://brooklynbirdclub.org/meetings.htm
The venue is the Litchfield Villa ( at PPWest Ave and 5th St) 630 gathering, 7 pm program
Thursday, November 10, 6:30 P.M.
Birding Israel
with Eric Salzman, speaking
Israel is situated right on one of the world's greatest migration routes for raptors, land birds and wetlands species traveling between Africa and Eurasia and it is the only country on this route where birds are not extensively trapped or shot. It is also hosts a large number of wintering birds (including the world's greatest concentrations of cranes and storks) as well as many Mediterranean and Middle Eastern breeding species. There are now birding centers around the country from Jerusalem to many of the kibbutz in the rift valley, on the Mediterranean and even in the desert. Eric Salzman had the good luck to be there at the end of winter and beginning of spring and was able to travel the country from bottom to top and from west to east to visit many of the top sites.
6:30 PM at the Litchfield Villa (Program will start at 7.)
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From NYS Birds Listserve:
BBC's Tom Stephenson speaking for Linnanean 11/8
Our own Tom Stephenson will be guest speaking on warbler songs and calls identification. For more and details see below from the NYSBirds listserve:
FoSubject: The Linnaean Society Lecture Series: Seeing and hearing birds better (8 Nov 6-9 pm AMNH)
from: Angus Wilson
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:21:28 -0400
*** THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK - MEETING PROGRAM - AMERICAN MUSEUM OF
NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY ***
Next TUESDAY (8 Nov 2011), *The Linnaean Society of New York* (TLS) will
present another two part program featuring entertaining talks by Jerry
Connolly and Tom Stephenson. The theme of the night is ways to improve your
birding experience, by eye or by ear. The program is held at the American
Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City.
*6:00 p.m. OPTICS - JERRY CONNOLLY*
Owner of The Audubon Shop in Madison, Connecticut, and a member of
Swarovski Optik�s Birding Advisory Council, Jerry Connolly will display,
discuss, and allow hands-on tryouts of the latest in birding optics. He
will also offer tips on how to become a better digiscoper (one who takes
digital photographs through a spotting scope).
*7:30 p.m. WARBLERS IN REAL LIFE - TOM STEPHENSON*
In a preview of his forthcoming book of the same title, Tom
Stephenson�musician, author, photographer, lecturer, and tour leader�will
focus on some lesser-known points of visual identification of warblers and
how they, and thus other songbirds, can be identified by songs, flight
calls, and contact calls, using sonograms and other techniques available
free to computer users. He will also describe the system he created for
learning bird songs after he had studied how memory actually works. �My own
memory is nothing special,� he writes in one of his regular *Surfbird* blog
posts, but he goes on to say, �using this system I have been able to learn
300 or 400 songs for each of my last several trips to Africa, South
America, and Asia.�
*WHERE AND WHEN*
Both programs are open to the public FREE OF CHARGE and will be held in the
Linder Theater on the first floor of the American Museum of Natural
History. Enter the museum from the 77th Street entrance, where TLS members
will be on hand to guide you up to the auditorium. The first program will
last approximately one hour. Anyone wishing to meet Tom Stephenson before
the 7:30 program may join the TLS party for dinner at Pappardella, 316
Columbus Ave. at 75th St., at 6 pm. The reservation will be in the name of
Deutsch.
*MORE INFORMATION ON THE TLS PROGRAM *
Jeff Nulle (Vice-President and Chair of the Program Committee) has put
together a spectacular program of invited speakers, workshops and video
presentations for the coming 2011/2012 season. For more details, please
check out (and bookmark) our website
http://linnaeannewyork.org/programs.html
or visit us on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linnaean-Society-of-New-York/335385365977?ref=ts
Hopefully many of you will be able to join us on Tuesday (no reservations
necessary) for an educational evening.
Angus Wilson
Council Member, The Linnaean Society of New York
