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Prospect Park Zoo
Brooklyn, 11225

April 2019

Tom Gray Presents: The Amazing Birds of South East Asia

April 23, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Prospect Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo
Brooklyn, 11225
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Tom Gray is the Director of Science for the conservation organization Wildlife Alliance. He recently moved to upper Manhattan, with Fort Tyron Park slowly becoming his local patch, after 15 years living and working in South East Asia. This talk will focus on some of the remarkable birds of South East Asia, particularly Cambodia, and the conservation efforts focused to conserve them in the face of the region’s rapidly growing economies and shrinking wildernesses. Tom will describe expeditions looking for…

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May 2019

Tessa Boase Presents: Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism – Women’s Fight for Change

May 14, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Prospect Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo
Brooklyn, 11225
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For half a century, from the 1870s to the 1920s, women on both sides of the Atlantic were gripped by a fashion craze that decreed all hats should be laden with feathers. Not just feathers, but wings, bird and whole bodies of birds – often several birds at a time. Species the world over were slowly brought to the brink of extinction, and all for the sake of millinery. Campaigning on behalf of the birds was a small band of…

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September 2019

Bats at Prospect Park Zoo, Presented by the Wildlife Conservation Society Staff and Paul Keim

September 17, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Prospect Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo
Brooklyn, 11225
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Come learn about the bats native to our area  with a presentation from Wildlife Conservation Society Employees who are studying the bat diversity within the grounds of our WCS institutions. We will conclude our evening with a walk, with naturalist Paul Keim, on zoo grounds looking for bats and other evening fauna that call the natural areas of the zoo home. This meeting will take place inside the Prospect Park Zoo in the Conservation Classroom, please wear comfortable shoes to…

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October 2019

Members Photo and Art Night

October 22, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Prospect Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo
Brooklyn, 11225
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BBC Members are invited to share their photos, media, and new for this meeting, bird art! Please register to present by emailing Jen Kepler with digital files of your photos, video, and/or artworks. We ask for a submission of up to 10 files per presenter to share with the club. Please be prepared to share a little about you, the stories behind your work and the equipment/media used. We ask that photos and videos have been captured ethically, according to ABA…

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November 2019

Bird Friendly Coffee presented by Lily Mleczko

November 19, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Prospect Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo
Brooklyn, 11225
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Please join our guest speaker, Lily Mleczko, as she discusses her graduate work surrounding Bird Friendly coffee. Lily will discuss the specifics of what it takes for farmers to get certified as “Bird Friendly,” why the certification is so important to conservation, how it benefits our local bird species and how you can help support the initiative. Lily has studied birds throughout her career. She obtained her undergraduate degree while studying Gunnison sage grouse in Colorado, before returning east to…

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April 2020

CANCELLED: Climate Change and North American Avian Communities: Presented by Shannon Curley

April 21, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Prospect Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo
Brooklyn, 11225
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This meeting will take place inside the Prospect Park Zoo in the C-classroom. Please ensure you are on time, doors open at 6:45pm and you must enter through the service gate on Flatbush Avenue. This talk will present the research collectively being done at College of Staten Island. Part 1: Evaluating changes in North American avian communities The first part of this talk we discuss how birds have responded to recent climate change and how, as a result, avian community…

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May 2020

CANCELLED: Save the Choco, Presented by James Muchmore (rescheduled)

May 19, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Prospect Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo
Brooklyn, 11225
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"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 5 years. He has put his years…

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