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SUMMARY:Annual RBA Winter Dinner
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE!\nAnnual RBA Winter Dinner \nSaturday\, January 9\, 2027\n5:00pm – 9:00 pm\nAsbury First United Methodist Church\n1050 East Avenue Rochester\, NY \nAnnual elections will be held and member presentations will provide the entertainment. \nReserve your seat for the potluck dinner! Everyone brings a dish to pass. Gluten Free\, Vegetarian or Dairy Free dishes are welcomed or bring your favorite! \nMain Entrees provided will be Roasted Turkey and Ham. \nContact Niki Banke. Please include name\, number of guests and the dish you plan on bringing. \nPlease remember Asbury has a strict no alcohol policy. \nMany hands make light work – we need volunteers to help set up and clean up! Contact Niki for details. Email Niki: jacksons.mama@hotmail.com or text 585-317-3751 \n 
URL:https://rochesterbirding.org/event/annual-rba-winter-dinner-4/
LOCATION:Asbury First Methodist Church\, 1050 East Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14607\, United States
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SUMMARY:February:  Joan Strassmann - "The Social Lives of Birds: Flocks\, Communes\, and Families"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 11\, 2027\n – Joan Strassmann\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is that bird doing? Whether they are foraging in flocks on a beach\, warning of approaching predators\, or caring for their young\, something is always happening. And it is likely to be social. Though many interactions seem cooperative\, self-interest has a large role in avian sociality\, from the selfish herd to parents reserving time to explore other mating opportunities. These and many other stories are told in Joan Strassmann’s latest book\, The Social Lives of Birds: Flocks\, Communes\, and Families\, and will be shared in this presentation. \n\n\nJoan Strassmann is a professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis where she asks\nwhy diverse organisms sometimes work together and what keeps cheaters from undermining\ngroup life.  She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American\nAcademy of Arts and Sciences.\n\n\n\n\nLook for the Zoom link in your email a few days prior to the meeting. The Zoom Room will open at 6:45 PM.  Don’t wait until the last minute to sign on\, you might be left out!
URL:https://rochesterbirding.org/event/february-joan-strassmann-the-social-lives-of-birds-flocks-communes-and-families/
LOCATION:Asbury First Methodist Church\, 1050 East Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14607\, United States
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SUMMARY:April:  Mary D'Agostino - "Birds of the High Arctic"
DESCRIPTION:Photographer Mary D’Agostino will share images from a trip to Utqiaġvik\, Alaska\, the most northerly city in North America. See photographs taken on the tundra that capture rare images of breeding plumage and behavior of countless migratory shore birds and snowy owls on their breeding grounds. An incomplete list of species to be included in the show: Owls (Snowy\, Short-eared)\, Sandpipers (Pectoral\, Buff-breasted)\, Dunlin\, Little stint\, Jaegers (Parasitic\, Long-tailed\, Pomarine)\, Eiders (King\, Steller’s)\, Willow Ptarmigan\, Snow bunting\, Common Red-poll\, Plover (American Golden\, Semipalmated)\, Red-necked Phalarope\, Ruddy Turnstone\, White Fronted Goose\, Tundra Swans\, among others. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Photographer \nAfter many years in corporate life\, Mary D’Agostino now actively pursues her passion for photography. She offers her images to the public\, for conservation projects\, corporate and civic collections. Favorite subjects include Sandhill Cranes\, birds\, and bears\, in locations such as Alaska (arctic and sub-arctic)\, Wyoming\, Montana\, New Mexico\, New York \, California\, and Nebraska. Mary earned degrees from Amherst College and Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is currently a semi-retired independent management consultant who works on business\, non-profit\, civic\, and public art projects. \nMary served as Board Member of WildCare Bay Area\, a California wildlife animal hospital and educational center. She received an Audubon top 100 Photography award for her Sandhill Crane image “Stick Toss.” Several images have been published by the National Audubon and in juried shows. Recently she had an image published in the book accompanying Wings Over Water\, an IMAX 3D movie. \nSee more of Mary’s work at her website\, www.seenature.net. \n\n\n\n\n\nLook for the Zoom link in your email a few days prior to the meeting. The Zoom Room will open at 6:45 PM.  Don’t wait until the last minute to sign on\, you might be left out!
URL:https://rochesterbirding.org/event/april-mary-dagostino-birds-of-the-high-arctic-2/
LOCATION:Asbury First Methodist Church\, 1050 East Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14607\, United States
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SUMMARY:September:  Jenn Lodi-Smith\, Ph.D. - "The Spark Bird Project: Exploring Birders’ Passion for Birds"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 9\, 2027\nSpeaker:  Jenn Lodi-Smith\, Ph.D. \n\n\n\nThe Spark Bird Project is an ongoing participatory community social science initiative designed to gather\, share\, and study the stories of people’s passion for birds while gaining scientific insights into a critical piece in the ecology of birds: birders themselves. The project leverages the tools of social science to study spark bird stories\, with research findings going directly back to community partners to inform their efforts towards engaging people in birding. The knowledge\ngained from The Spark Bird Project helps to craft inclusive experiences that can facilitate spark bird moments for the benefit of the birding community\, the new birder\, the economy\, and – most importantly – the birds and our world. By understanding what hooks and sustains birders\, The Spark Bird Project helps grow the constituency of individuals creatively working to conserve and protect our planet. \nJenn Lodi-Smith\, Ph.D.\, the founder and director of The Spark Bird Project\, is a Professor of Psychology at Canisius University and scholar-in-residence with the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. Jenn has been using mixed methods to longitudinally study identity development for over 20 years\, most recently in the context of the transformative power of spark bird experiences. She serves as secretary/treasurer for the Association for Research in Personality\, associate editor\nof Journal of Personality\, on the board of Birds on the Niagara\, and mentors the WNY Young Birders Club. \n\n\n\nLook for the Zoom link in your email a few days prior to the meeting. The Zoom Room will open at 6:45 PM.  Don’t wait until the last minute to sign on\, you might be left out!
URL:https://rochesterbirding.org/event/september-jenn-lodi-smith-ph-d-the-spark-bird-project-exploring-birders-passion-for-birds/
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SUMMARY:December:  Randi Minetor - "The Plumage Trade: How Fashion Killed a Warden\, and How Tea Parties Killed Fashion"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 9\, 2027\n – Randi Minetor \nHere is the story of the people who nearly wiped out Florida’s abundant long-legged waders in a drive to profit from their plumes\, and the people who gave their time and their lives to stop them. A game warden took a bullet to protect egrets\, another one vanished with barely a trace\, and two women in Boston became turn-of-the-twentieth-century influencers to save the birds. The result: the first official chapter of the National Audubon Society\, and an end to the plumage trade. \nRandi Minetor discovered the stories of the people who defended birds from plumage hunters while working on her book Death in the Everglades (Lyons Press\, 2024). A working writer for more than 40 years\, ​Randi has produced more than 100 books on topics ranging from deaths in the national parks to finding and identifying birds in states across the country. She is a former president of the Rochester Birding Association\, and she has written for Birding Magazine\, North American Birds\, and Bird Watcher’s Digest. \nLook for the Zoom link in your email a few days prior to the meeting. The Zoom Room will open at 6:45 PM.  Don’t wait until the last minute to sign on\, you might be left out!
URL:https://rochesterbirding.org/event/december-randi-minetor-the-plumage-trade-how-fashion-killed-a-warden-and-how-tea-parties-killed-fashion/
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