{"id":612,"date":"2017-12-04T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/?p=612"},"modified":"2017-12-10T07:42:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T07:42:53","slug":"connecticut-ornithological-associations-34th-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/connecticut-ornithological-associations-34th-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Ornithological Association\u2019s 34th Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

COA Annual Meeting
\n<\/strong>March 24, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

T<\/b>he Connecticut Ornithological Association\u2019s 34th<\/sup> Annual Meeting is being held on
\nMarch 24, 2018 at Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT.<\/p>\n

Guest speakers include:<\/p>\n

Scott Weidensaul
\n<\/strong>Of a Feather: A (Brief) History of American Birding<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds \u2013 great flocks of wild pigeons, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Join naturalist and author Scott Weidensaul as he traces the unpredictable history of bird study in America, from frontier ornithologists (one of whom barely escaped pursuing Apaches with a precious hawk egg hidden in his mouth) to society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; from luminaries like Alexander Wilson (a convicted libeler) and Audubon (an accomplished liar) to modern geniuses like Roger Tory Peterson.<\/p>\n

Based on his book \u201cOf a Feather,\u201d this whirlwind history shows how ornithology and birding grew from eccentric hobbies into something so completely mainstream they\u2019re now (almost) cool.<\/p>\n

Scott Weidensaul is the author of more than two dozen books on natural history, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist \u201cLiving on the Wind,\u201d about bird migration, \u201cReturn to Wild America,\u201d and \u201cThe First Frontier.\u201d\u00a0 His latest book is \u201cThe Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean.\u201d\u00a0 Weidensaul is a contributing editor for Audubon magazine, a columnist for Bird Watcher\u2019s Digest and writes for a variety of other publications.\u00a0 He lives in the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania, and is an active field researcher studying migration from Alaska to Maine, and focusing especially on owls and hummingbirds.<\/p>\n

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John Himmelman
\n<\/strong>Birds: Their Side of the Story\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How did our best-known birds earn that distinction? What are some of the crazy things they make us do? Why are there so many pigeons in cities? How adept are crows \u2013 for real now, at using a screwdriver? What did Ben Franklin really think about Bald Eagles?<\/p>\n

John Shares light-hearted stories of birds and bird watching \u2013 from cuisine to cartoons, ornaments to icons, murmurs to murders.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be given a whole new look at the avian friends we so admire (and some, not so much\u2026.)<\/p>\n

John Himmelman is an author, illustrator, naturalist, and popular lecturer.\u00a0 He is a co-founder of the CT Butterfly Association, past president of the New Haven Bird Club, past president of The Nature Connection and past president of the Killingworth Land Trust.\u00a0 He has lectured and led many trips afield in search of various flora and fauna throughout the country for over 25 years.<\/p>\n

Himmelman has written and illustrated many books for adults and children on a wide variety of natural history subjects.<\/p>\n


\nChris Elphick
\n<\/strong>Connecticut Bird Atlas<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Field work for the new Connecticut Bird Atlas project begins in spring 2018 and will require the help of the state\u2019s birders to make it a success.\u00a0 The project aims to map the distributions and abundance patterns of all of Connecticut\u2019s birds during both the breeding and non-breeding seasons, determine how bird occurrence has changed since the first atlas in the 1980\u2019s, and inform conservation planning statewide. This presentation will provide a history of atlas projects, an overview of what the Connecticut study will achieve, and a description of how birders can get involved.<\/p>\n

Chris Elphick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut.\u00a0 His work focuses on the conservation ecology of birds, especially in wetlands, farmland, and forests.\u00a0 He has been studying coastal marsh birds and their habitats since 2002 and is a lead investigator for the Saltmarsh Habitat and Avian Research Program (SHARP).\u00a0 He participated in his first bird atlas in his early teens, mostly surveying blocks no one else wanted to visit (and still finding good birds).\u00a0 He has received Partners in Flight National Investigators\u2019 Awards for contributions to bird conservation both as an individual and as a member of the SHARP team. His research has been published in journals such as the Auk, Biological Conservation, Condor, Conservation Biology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, <\/em>and Science.\u00a0 <\/em>Book length projects include the Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, <\/em>the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada, <\/em>and the Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Rice Fields: A Global Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

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