SPARROWS AND PEOPLE AND SPARROW PEOPLE*By Rick Wright* *Tuesday, February 27, 7pm, * *Reidy Hall at the Unitarian Church of All Souls, located on Lexington Avenue between 79th and 80th streets in Manhattan (Google Map <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Unitarian+Church+of+All+Souls/@40.7754695,-73.9605579,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2f610c209c057:0x8a41a04bc904486c!8m2!3d40.7754695!4d-73.9583692>)*
Prolific author Rick Wright will share his expertise and read passages from his forthcoming book, the Peterson Reference Guide to North American Sparrows. Rick has quite a varied and interesting background - a native of southeast Nebraska, studied French, German, philosophy, and life sciences at the University of Nebraska, where he worked in the bird collections of the State Museum and served as teaching assistant to Paul Johnsgard. After a detour to Harvard Law School, Rick took the M.A. and Ph.D. in German at Princeton University. His years as an academic included appointments as assistant professor of German at the University of Illinois, reader/scholar at Princeton University’s Index of Christian Art, and associate professor of medieval studies at Fordham University. Among his scholarly publications are two books on the Latin and German animal literature of the late Middle Ages. He is also the author of the American Birding Association’s field guides to birds of New Jersey and of Arizona. *Rick is also a guide for VENT birding tours, offering wonderful "Birds & Art" tours in various European countries.* A prolific contributor to the birding literature and a sought-after lecturer, Rick lives with his wife, Alison Beringer, and their chocolate lab, Gellert, in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Lectures are free and open to the public. This series has been made possible by the support of Claude and Lucienne Bloch. Hope to see you there! Lynne Hertzog New York City -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
