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November 2020
November Meeting via Zoom!: Rick Wright – “A Field Guide to the Toucans of Europe “
Join Rick Wright for an amusing and richly illustrated tour through the earliest literature of the toucans, aracaris, and other big-nosed birds of the American tropics.
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Conesus Lake Area Field Trip – Registration Opens Nov. 28
We’ll be looking for Tundra Swans, Canvasback, Redhead and other waterfowl.
Find out more »Beginner Trip: Nations Road – Registration Opens Nov 29!
Sharpen your skills on wintering hawks and Short-eared Owls. Other wintering birds such as Horned Larks, Snow Buntings, and Lapland Longspurs are often present.
Find out more »December Meeting via Zoom!: Ken Rosenberg – “3 Billion Birds Lost: The Disappearance of North American Birds and What We Can Do About It”
In 2019, a landmark publication in Science documented the loss of 3 billion birds from the North American avifauna over the past 50 years. Lead author Ken Rosenberg will describe the scientific results of this study, the unprecedented attention it received in the media and the public, and efforts over the past year to respond to this loss and bring back the birds.
Find out more »Rochester Christmas Bird Count – Sunday, December 20th, 2020
Join us for the 121th Christmas Bird Count of the National Audubon Society and the 117th Rochester CBC. If you cannot bird in the field, watch your feeder and phone results to the area leader.
Find out more »Little Lakes Christmas Bird Count – Saturday, December 26th, 2020
This year marks the 121th count nationwide and the 69th count for the area. The count date is Saturday, December 26, 2020. Birds seen during the count week of December 23 to December 29 may be called in to the leaders for inclusion in the tally.
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Irondequoit Bay Outlet & Durand Eastman Park – Year List Jump-Start Field Trip ***CANCELLED***
Get started on your annual list! We’ll look for winter waterfowl on the Bay, then move to Durand-Eastman Park where we will stroll Log Cabin Road and Zoo Road looking for finches, waxwings, and resident birds.
Find out more »Webster Park – Campground Area Field Trip ***CANCELLED***
In mature forest and scrubby areas we'll look for overwintering resident birds, lingering migrants such as Hermit Thrush and special winter visitors such as Evening and Pine Grosbeaks, White-winged and Red Crossbills and Bohemian Waxwings.
Find out more »Beginner Birder Trip: Mendon Ponds Park Songbird Trail ***CANCELLED***
This trip will be a leisurely winter walk along rolling trails (approx.1-1/2 miles) featuring some very close looks at our winter passerines!
Find out more »January Meeting via Zoom!: Laura Erickson – “The Love Lives of Birds”
Laura Erickson will talk about how courtship, mating, and parenting vary wildly among different birds, from the lifelong devotion of American Crows to the dalliances of Eastern Bluebirds, from Bald Eagles’ focus on home improvements to the female Ruby-throated Hummingbird’s Rosie the Riveter’s lifestyle.
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