The November meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club will be next Monday, November 13, 2023, 7:30pm at Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850. Our speaker will be Meena Haribal, naturalist, photographer, and long time Cayuga Bird Club member. Come join us as she presents "Desert Hopping for Birds and Wildlife".
This past year Meena was able to visit various kinds of deserts to observe their fauna and flora.Traveling from the hot, tropical Thar desert of Rajasthan, India, to the temperate sand dunes of Nebraska and to the cold high altitude of the Tibetan desert of Ladakh. On her travels, she observed iconic birds such as the endangered Great Indian Bustard (only about 250 of them left), various vultures, Hoopoe Lark, Greater Prairie Chickens, Sage Grouse and the endangered Black-necked Cranes that migrate from Ladakh, east to Bhutan. There were also several mammals like Tibetan Gazelle, Kiang and the extremely rare and elusive apex predator, Snow Leopard. Meena will share the experiences and challenges of observing this unique fauna with photos and videos. About the Speaker: Meena is an ardent naturalist and traveler around the world in search of nature. She has been a member of the Cayuga Bird Club for almost 30 years and has shared many fascinating presentations about her travels. Meena has filled the club roles of President and field trip chair in the past, and has led many field trips herself. She fondly remembers her first trip with the Cayuga Bird Club in March of 1993, an afternoon trip in search of Short-eared Owls. To attend the trip, she hiked from Schuyler House in downtown Ithaca to the Lab of O, a distance of about 5 miles, only to find that the trip went to the West side of the lake via downtown! Here she met Linda Clougherty and Ngampit Jagacinski for the first time, who later offered rides to many of the club trips. Stay tuned for information concerning a speaker dinner before the meeting. Colleen Richards Corresponding Secretary Cayuga Bird Club Cayuga Bird Club meetings are held on the second Monday of each month, September through June, and are free and open to the public. In-person meetings start with social time at 7:00pm, the reading of the bird list at 7:20pm, and club business at 7:30pm, followed by the speaker's presentation starting around 8:00pm and ending by 9:00pm. For the remainder of the 2023-24 season, in-person meetings are held at Foundation of Light on Turkey Hill Road. Note that the January and February meetings are Zoom-only virtual meetings. We will attempt to make presentations available virtually as a recording posted a few days later, on our YouTube channel @cayugabirdclub. Some meetings may shift to Zoom if warranted by circumstances. -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
