***Cancelled*** May 14, 2020 Member Meeting
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesThe May 14, 2020 RBA Member meeting is CANCELLED.
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***CANCELLED***April Meeting: Jean Iron – “The Nature of Arctic Birds “
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesArctic birds have a special attraction for birders and are amongst our most sought-after species. In this presentation, Jean will take us north to look at birds whose exceptional endurance and lifestyle are determined by the relentless forces of nature.
March Meeting: Christina Hoh, NYSDEC Biologist, Avon NY – “Monitoring New York’s Winter Raptors”
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesDear RBA members. Our meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Baptist Temple, 1100 Clover Street, Rochester, will go on as planned. Your health and well-being are our concern. Please consider the following: If you are not feeling well, please stay home. If it has been less than 14 days since returning from a trip where the corona virus has been active, please stay home.
February Meeting: RBA Member Night Presentations
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesWe enjoyed some wonderful presentations at the Annual Dinner in early January. But since there's never enough time to include everyone, we continue with more presentations this month. Come see what else your fellow birders have been up to!
December: Daniel Baldassarre – “Linking Behavior and Biodiversity in Birds”
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesDaniel Baldassarre is interested in evolutionary biology and biodiversity, and especially loves studying birds. To study avian biodiversity, he focuses on small populations of birds and looks for connections between unusual behaviors and broad-scale patterns.
November: Lucy Winters Durkin – “John James Audubon: Birds in Paint and Print”
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesThe images from John James Audubon's Birds of America are familiar to most birders, but a significant portion of Audubon's work remains almost unknown - the written text that originally accompanied the illustrations.
October: Julie Hart – “NY Breeding Bird Atlas III: Engaging all birders from 2020-2024”
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesIt has been 20 years since the last breeding bird atlas in New York State and a lot has changed! The third atlas will take place from 2020-2025 and involve thousands of volunteers from across the state.
September: Randi and Nic Minetor – “Birding New England”
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesJust in time for Fall migration and colorful foliage, local author/photographer team Randi and Nic Minetor will present insights on birding in New England.
May: Eli J. Knapp, PhD – “Birds Become Stories”
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesSome spectacular birds turn the people who see them into birders. Others have a power even beyond that.
April: Luke DeGroote – “Clear and present danger: Bird-window collisions”
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesSmack! That's the sound of a bird hitting a window—and you've probably heard it often. Collisions with windows cause millions of bird fatalities every year. But now there's new hope for birds thanks to scientists at Powdermill Nature Reserve.
March: Greg Lawrence – “Restoring Wetlands for Birds: An overview of ongoing wetland restoration projects in the Braddock Bay WMA and how they’ll impact bird communities”
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesThe Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area (WMA) includes a series of large barrier beach wetlands on the south shore of Lake Ontario, just northwest of Rochester. A combination of lake-level regulation, introduction of invasive species, increased development on adjacent land, pollution, and other factors led to degradation of these coastal wetlands over the last 100 years.
February: Charlie Cowling – “Early 20th Century Upstate New York Photographers Lead the Way in a New Method of ‘Collecting’ Birds in the Field”
The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United StatesFeaturing recently salvaged and digitized images from rare glass lantern slides, Charlie Cowling, archivist at SUNY Brockport, will present images of New York birds taken by regional birders in the early 20th century.
