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via Zoom Bio: Glen started birding in Brooklyn at age 10 and was a regular of Brooklyn Bird Club trips and meetings until graduating high school in 1995.  Since then Glen has worked a myriad of field jobs and as a tour leader.  Glen resides in Cape May with his wife Kashi and currently works at Cellular Tracking Technologies as well as a counselor in the summer for Camp Cascades for Young Birders. Talk Summary: Due to technical difficulties the…

Via Zoom, Registration required. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqdO6pqD8sHtCyrrnUYN6zmh3f2wxN4phY Grasslands are the fastest disappearing habitat in the U.S. and grassland birds are disappearing right along with their habitats. We have lost 700 million grassland birds in the U.S. and Canada over the last 50 years. Short-eared owls, Northern harriers, Upland sandpipers, Eastern meadowlarks, and other iconic bird species are vanishing from rural landscapes at an alarming rate. Learn about these amazing grassland birds and find out more about what Grassland Bird…

Via zoom, registration required. Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvc-ytrTgiH9YnVo0B8OLxSvNCyfSSldmM “Save the Choco” was our beneficiary of our 2019 Birdathon, for which we raised a record amount of over $12,000. Join us to learn a bit more about “Save the Chocó” and the impact our donations from the 2019 Birdathon have made to protect this important bio-diverse region of South America. James Muchmore is an artist, birder, designer, and photographer turned conservationist. James has been exploring design’s role within conservation for the last…

Via Zoom, Registration required. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkfu-hrzMrEtByknk5Chj5niC0XaWLbhYU Georgia Silvera Seamans is an urban forester, and the co-founding director of Washington Square Park Eco Projects. Georgia is also an independent researcher and freelance writer. She has bylines with UrbanOmnibus.net, Audubon.com, and Audubon Magazine, and her research has been published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening and the Journal of Arboriculture. She’s an alumna of Wesleyan University, the Yale School of the Environment, and UC Berkeley. Georgia will present the changing ecology of…

Via Zoom, Registration required. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrc-GvqDsoEtPNZYdUq0A6Lmg1SK2YLPiK The Audubon Mural Project is an impressive effort to create murals of over 300 North American birds. Most of the murals are in the Harlem neighborhoods of Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights, where John James Audubon lived the last ten years of his life. Since all of the birds painted are threatened by climate change, the Project is designed, not only to display the birds’ beauty, but also to make us aware of the…

(rescheduled from an earlier date) via Zoom Bio: Glen started birding in Brooklyn at age 10 and was a regular of Brooklyn Bird Club trips and meetings until graduating high school in 1995.  Since then Glen has worked a myriad of field jobs and as a tour leader.  Glen resides in Cape May with his wife Kashi and currently works at Cellular Tracking Technologies as well as a counselor in the summer for Camp Cascades for Young Birders. Talk Summary: California Condors can now…

Via Zoom, Registration required. Please register here:  https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckf-irrj4sEt3pG_6v3lw9OY_Y68NoZBUD Monty and Rose" is a 2019 documentary written and directed by Bob Dolgan. The film tells the story of a pair of endangered piping plovers that nested at Chicago's Montrose Beach, becoming the first of the species to nest in the city since 1955. The endangered birds took up residence on one of the busiest stretches of one of the busiest beaches in Chicago. Those interviewed for the film include volunteers, biologists…

Via Zoom, registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkceGprTssEtz40JcEXGCNDyFohGuLxZZr Presenters: Jose Ramírez-Garofalo & Shannon Curley Temperate grasslands are among the most globally imperiled biomes, suffering from habitat loss, land conversion, and lack of protection. Consequently, grassland birds are among the most substantially declining guilds of North American birds. Freshkills Park in Staten Island, New York is approximately 2,000 acres of reclaimed land within the New York City Parks system. The park was established on the site of the former Fresh Kills Landfill—the largest landfill…