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, February 15, 2017. Free admission. Refreshments
served.
Public transit users: Meeting location is one mile from Bayside LIRR
station; you may either walk, take the Q12 bus, or use car service located
at the station.
QCBC member Donna Schulman will present "South Africa Safari, from Capetown
to Kruger to Wakkerstroom" featuring her own fabulous photos and videos.
Safari is the Swahili word for journey. Donna's 2014 journey took
her from Capetown, where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean and African
Penguins frolic near the Cape of Good Hope; to Kruger National Park, where
Lions, Leopards and Zebras (oh my!) distract even the most dedicated birder
from Hornbills and Eagle-Owls; to the KwaZulu-Natal province in eastern
South Africa, where the Wakkerstroom fields are full of larks and pipits,
and the sand forests hold Narina Trogans and Pink-throated Twinspots. The
first two parts of Donna's South Africa Safari were with the American
Birding Association, and the trip through Eastern South Africa was a small
group extension. With photographs and video, Donna will talk about the
birds, mammals, and other creatures she encountered, South African habitats,
and the unique advantages of each type of travel.
Donna learned how to bird on QCBC field trips and now uses
that skill set in NY, NJ, Florida, and around the world. Her photographs
have been used by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, NJ Audubon, and other
organizations, and her Black Oystercatcher photo was featured in the
Fieldcraft section of Birdwatching Magazine. She is an adjunct professor at
the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers, a past editor of News
and Notes, and a book reviewer, currently for 10,000 Birds and Birding
magazine.
Nancy Tognan
[email protected] <mailto:[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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