*** THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK - MEETING PROGRAM - AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY ***
The 2011/2012 program gets off to a flying start next TUESDAY (13 September 2011) with a new 'enhanced' meeting format. In addition to a celebrity speaker, Jeff Gordon, President of the ABA, the society will show a superb documentary film on birds of the British countryside. 6:00 p.m. BIRDS BRITANNIA: COUNTRYSIDE BIRDS Part of the 2010 BBC-TV documentary series made with the participation of many British birding luminaries such as David Attenborough, this hour-long episode was acclaimed one of the best. It features Britain’s most prominent ornithologist, Tim Birkhead, who in March 2011 accepted the Linnaean Society’s invitation to become an Honorary Member. 7:30 p.m. TEN BIRDS THAT CHANGED ORNITHOLOGY* - Jeffrey A. Gordon* A sought-after leader and speaker at birding festivals, Jeffrey Gordon has had a wide-ranging career, from being an interpretive naturalist in Yosemite to a guide for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours. An outstanding photographer, he provided the photographs for the 2010 edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America and for its separate Eastern and Western editions. In November 2010, the board of directors of the American Birding Association (ABA) named him president, convinced that he could return ABA to its glory days. He will discuss how, over the last forty years in North America, the sighting of ten individual birds—among them the Ross’s Gull seen at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1975—changed the way birding is done and understood in North America. Both programs are open to the public FREE OF CHARGE and will be held in the 'People Center' at the American Museum of Natural History. Enter the museum from the 77th Street entrance, where TLS members will be on hand to guide you to the auditorium. The first program will last approximately one hour. Anyone wishing to meet Jeff before the 7:30 program may come to dinner at Pappardella, 316 Columbus Ave. at 75th St., at 6 pm. The reservation will be in the name of Deutsch. 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 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 Hope to see many of you on Tuesday (we have ample seating, no reservations necessary), for what should be a very entertaining evening with a leader in North American birding! Angus Wilson Council Member, The Linnaean Society of New York -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
