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April 2019
Tom Gray Presents: The Amazing Birds of South East Asia
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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Tessa Boase Presents: Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism – Women’s Fight for Change
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…
Find out more »September 2019
Bats at Prospect Park Zoo, Presented by the Wildlife Conservation Society Staff and Paul Keim
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…
Find out more »October 2019
Members Photo and Art Night
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…
Find out more »November 2019
Bird Friendly Coffee presented by Lily Mleczko
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…
Find out more »January 2020
The Galapagos: Home of Evolution Presented by Bobbi Manian and Tom Stephenson
Note: This meeting will be held at the Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch Six hundred miles off the coast of mainland Ecuador sit a chain of volcanic islands that are home to a range of fascinating and unique animals. Because of its isolation, the Galapagos has served as a workshop in evolution. The slight variation of some of the birds from island to island triggered the imagination of Charles Darwin, which led him to develop his world-changing theory of evolution.…
Find out more »February 2020
How to Take Better Photos of Birds: Presented by Tom Stephenson and August Onsgard
Birds make beautiful pictures. And photos can be useful in making tough IDs and also serve as memories of great experiences. But birds can be very difficult to photograph well. This workshop covers everything you need to know to make great, sharp bird photos. We will cover camera basics, how to set up for different conditions, advanced tips and tricks for the field; and also the importance of post-processing and how to make a good photo look professional. Tom Stephenson's articles and photographs are in museums and…
Find out more »March 2020
CANCELLED: eBird: The Ferrari You Haven’t Taken Out of First Gear! Presented by Sean Sime
NOTE, THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RELATED SUSPENSION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS AT BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY. To be rescheduled at a later date. Sean Sime, a professional photographer, eBird regional reviewer and long time member of the Brooklyn birding community will lead an interactive discussion on eBird's functionality beyond "just checklists" and how we as birders barely scratch the surface of its' utility. In this meeting Sean will be giving us a brief overview of eBird, what his contribution…
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CANCELLED: Climate Change and North American Avian Communities: Presented by Shannon Curley
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…
Find out more »May 2020
CANCELLED: Save the Choco, Presented by James Muchmore (rescheduled)
"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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