On Tuesday, December 11th, the Linnaean Society of New York's 2018-2019 Speaker Program will feature two new presentations. Please note: The December meeting will be held at The Liederkranz Club, 6 East 87th Street.
6:00 pm - Saving a Species: Recovering the World's Most Endangered Wolves - Maggie Howell No other North American mammal inspires such a wide range of human emotions as the gray wolf. Feared and admired, cursed and revered, wolves are the stuff of legends and a symbol of America's vanishing wilderness. The passionate positive and negative responses that wolves inspire in people have complicated the issue of their recovery-both contentious and undecided, but also full of promise. The Wolf Conservation Center's Executive Director, Maggie Howell, will introduce the Center's work to save these species, including captive breeding, captive-to-wild release efforts, the husbandry challenge of caring for animals that are rarely seen, and the reward of restoring wolves to their rightful place in the wild. Before joining WCC in 2005, Howell worked with big cats in the Southwest, where her charges included captive big cats, wolves, bears, and hyenas. 7:30 pm - North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring - Bruce Beehler In this illustrated lecture, naturalist and ornithologist, Bruce Beehler, will recount his hundred-day-long field trip in 2015 following the spring migration of songbirds from the coast of southeastern Texas up the Mississippi and from there into the boreal forests of northern Ontario-breeding ground of many of the wood warblers. Along the way, he spent time in tiny rural communities from southern Louisiana and Mississippi through the Heartland and to the northern limit of roads in Ontario, land of the Cree and Ojibwe. Beehler's informal goal was to spend time with all thirty-seven eastern wood warblers in their breeding habitat. In pursuing this objective, he saw a lot of deeply rural North America. His presentation touches on wildlife, nature conservation, migration research, American history, and rural culture. Bruce Beehler is a Research Associate in the Division of Birds at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and is focused on research and writing about nature and natural history. ----------------------- Both presentations are free and as noted above they will be held at The Liederkranz Club, 6 East 87th Street. All welcome! Complete details of these exciting presentations and the rest of the 2018-2019 program can be found here: https://linnaeannewyork.org/programs-trips/lsny-programs.html Richard Fried The Linnaean Society of New York -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
