The *Queens County Bird Club Inc.* will be meeting at the Alley Pond
Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd Douglaston, NY 11362
<http://goo.gl/8cnmjT> >Map of location<
at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Free admission. Refreshments
served.
Public transportation users: Meeting location is one mile from Bayside LIRR
station; you can either walk, take Q12 bus, or use car service located at
station.
Our speaker will be Sandra Paci, presenting "Iceland: Land of Fire, Ice,
and BIRDS!"
The lure of Iceland for birders lies not in the number of
species to be seen, but in the quality of those species and the opportunity
to encounter them in spectacularly beautiful and unspoiled landscapes,
sometimes in overwhelming numbers. Seabirds, shorebirds, waterfowl, and
gulls are all well represented. Some are special Icelandic races and
subspecies found nowhere else. Many birds in this sparsely populated land
show a remarkable lack of fear of humans, allowing for close viewing and
photography. Join Sandra Paci as she discusses her 2013 journey to this
intriguing island nation, starting near the capital city Reykjavik,
continuing up the west coast to the Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Flatey Island,
and the fabled Latrabjarg bird cliffs, before heading across the north coast
to Husavik, Lake Myvatn, and the edge of the Arctic Circle.
Sandra Paci was born in Baltimore, Maryland and lives in New
York City, where she works for a gallery in the Chelsea art district and is
an active member of the Brooklyn Bird Club and the Linnaean Society of New
York. Since first catching the travel bug in the early 1980s, she has
ventured to over twenty countries outside the U.S., mostly in Europe and
Latin America. Sandra became an avid birder in 2003 and has enjoyed
long-distance birding trips to Alaska, Mexico (three times), Panama (twice),
Ecuador (twice), Peru (three times), Bolivia, Colombia, Iceland and Morocco.
Nancy Tognan
nancy.tog...@gmail.com <mailto:nancy.tog...@gmail.com>
Vice President: *Queens County Bird Club Inc*.
See http://www.qcbirdclub.org/ for more information on trips, speakers, and
other events!
See our 'Birding Maps & Locations' page for directions to and info about
many local birding hotspots
* QCBC is a tax exempt, charitable organization {501c3}. *
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