The December meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club Monday will be held December 11 at 7:30pm at Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd. 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
Our speaker, Ton Schat, Cayuga Bird Club member, traveler, and photographer will be presenting - "Madagascar: Birds, Lemurs, Chameleons, and Other Amazing Critters In November 2022, Ton joined the tour group Birding Africa on their “Madagascar Endemic Birds and Lemur Tour,” which had been postponed twice due to the Covid pandemic. During the 22 days, they started in the capital Antananarivo (“Tana”) followed by visits to the northeast (Masoala) and the northwest (Betsiboka Delta and Ankarafantsika). In the second part of the tour, many of the National Parks on the east side of Madagascar were explored and they ended in the Southwest (Ifaty and Toliara). The program will start with a short introduction to Madagascar, followed by many photos and a discussion of some of the endemic bird families such as the Vangas. Ton will also give us a look at lemurs and other critters observed during the trip. About the Speaker: Ton Schat has been a member of the Cayuga Bird Club for over 40 years and has presented several programs to the club in the past. He retired from the faculty of the Cornell Veterinary College in 2011 where he studied and researched avian viruses and immunology. Ton has traveled extensively for work and for pleasure and, especially since retirement, has become an avid bird and wildlife photographer. There will be a speaker dinner before the meeting at 5:30 at the Sumo Restaurant at the Cayuga Mall. Please rsvp by noon on Mon., Dec. 11 to cl...@juno.com for reservations. Hope to see you there. 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. 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. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> ABA<https://www.aba.org/birding-news/> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- (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/ --
