The Queens County Bird Club will be meeting at the Alley Pond Environmental
Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd Douglaston, NY 11362 <http://goo.gl/8cnmjT>
>Map of location<
at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, December 16, 2015. Free admission. Refreshments
served.
Public transportation users: Meeting location is one mile from Bayside LIRR
station; you can either walk, take Q12 bus, or use car service located at
station.
Susan Elbin of the New York City Audubon Society, who will present her work
on "Harbor Herons: Waterbirds of New York Harbor".
The purpose of NYC Audubon's Harbor Herons project is to monitor
the population status of wading birds (including herons, egrets, and ibis)
and other waterbirds (cormorants, gulls, and terns) on select islands in the
New York/New Jersey Harbor and surrounding waterways, while also noting the
presence of other nesting bird species and current nesting habitat.
Susan Elbin is the Director of Conservation and Science for New
York City Audubon where her work is focused on urban ecology-conservation of
waterbirds and migratory landbirds in New York City. Current projects
include long-term monitoring of and research on nesting and foraging herons,
egrets, ibis, and cormorants in the New York Harbor; monitoring migratory
and beach-nesting shorebirds in Jamaica Bay; participating in salt marsh
bird surveys. These projects have been designed to employ citizen science
volunteers and graduate students as well as program staff. Her projects have
avian behavioral ecology as their core, leading to conservation action. For
example, she is co-author of the Harbor Herons Conservation Plan (2010).
Susan has worked in the field of conservation, within the US and
internationally, for more than 25 years. She holds an MS degree in Ecology
(Pennsylvania State University) and a PhD in Ecology and Evolution (Rutgers
University). She serves on several graduate committees and is an adjunct
professor at Pace and Columbia Universities where she teaches courses in
ornithology and migration ecology. Susan is the current President of the
Waterbird Society.
Nancy Tognan
[email protected]
Vice President, Queens County Bird Club
See http://www.qcbirdclub.org/ for more information on trips, speakers, and
other events!
See our 'Birding Maps & Locations' page for directions to and info about
many local birding hotspots
* QCBC is a tax exempt, charitable organization {501c3}. *
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