The Queens County Bird Club 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, March 16, 2016. Free admission. Refreshments
served.
Public transportation users: Meeting location is one mile from Bayside LIRR
station; you can either walk, take the Q12 bus, or use car service located
at station.
Paul Sweet will present "Ornithological Fieldwork in the Highlands of Papua
New Guinea"
The island of New Guinea is home to over 700 species of
birds-that is, 700 and still counting. In the fall of 2014 Paul Sweet joined
a team of vertebrate specialists from the American Museum of Natural History
on an expedition to the highlands of Papua New Guinea-the nation that
occupies the eastern half of the island. The highlands are one of the most
remote areas in the world. The expedition was in search of new specimens and
new species. Sweet will talk about the adventures of fieldwork and discuss
some of the expedition's discoveries.
Born in Bristol, England, Sweet has been interested in birds
for as long as he can remember. After completing a degree in zoology at the
University of Liverpool, he traveled widely in Asia and the Americas before
working at the Raffles Museum in Singapore. In 1991 he moved to New York
City to work at the American Museum of Natural History, where he is now the
collections manager in the Ornithology Department.
Nancy Tognan
nancy.tog...@gmail.com <mailto:nancy.tog...@gmail.com>
Vice President, Queens County Bird Club
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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