The next Queens County Bird Club will be held on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 7:30 PM via Zoom. Donna Schulman will present "Back to Australia or Why Did the Cassowary Cross the Road" Donna believes that there is never enough Australian birding, so she returned to the land of kookaburras, cockatoos, and koalas in 2024 to bird Queensland, New South Wales, and a bit of Victoria. She saw the sky fill with flying foxes in Sydney, fed trail mix to Australian King-Parrots at O’Reilly’s Retreat, cooed over baby Brown Boobies on Michaelmas Cay (Great Barrier Reef), and watched a Southern Cassowary cross the road at Etty Bayright in front of her camera (too close!). Like her previous trip, this one combined a group tour, private guiding, and birding on her own. The presentation will include photographs, videos and comments on the pluses and minuses of each mode of birding travel when down under. BIO
Donna learned how to bird with QCBC and has branched out to Central & South America, Africa, SE Asia, and Australia. A former labor educator and library director, she reviews books for 10,000 Birds, Birding magazine, and discusses birding books as part of the Birding Book Club on the American Birding Association Podcast. Donna’s photographs have been featured in Birding and Birdwatching Magazine; the publications, print and social media, of New Jersey Audubon and Cornell Lab of Ornithology; the educational signage of Negri-Nepote Grasslands in N.J. and a tern colony somewhere in Germany; and just recently, the 2025 Town of Southampton Report on Threatened and Endangered Species Management and Protection Program. She is a past editor of QCBC’s News and Notes. Topic: Ian Resnick's Zoom Meeting Time: Feb 18, 2026 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87274481074?pwd=Jd35kqt6PSAHucx740sXklwF87JOqI.1 Meeting ID: 872 7448 1074 Passcode: 491827 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Marcia AbrahamsVP/Programs CoordinatorQueens County Bird Clubhttps://qcbirdclub.org/Email: [email protected] -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Visit: http://LISTS.cornell.edu for more information Posting Address: [email protected] Archives: The Mail Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Sightings: Please submit your observations to eBird at http://www.ebird.org --
