[nysbirds-l] Upcoming Queens County Bird Club/NY Zoom Meeting - Holly Merker presents "Ornitherapy: For Your Mind, Body, and Soul" - Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Upcoming Queens County Bird Club/NY Zoom Meeting When: Jun 15, 2022 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Holly Merker presents "Ornitherapy: For Your Mind, Body and Soul" Watching birds: not only fun, but good for you!Learn why getting your daily dose of Ornitherapy is just what the doctor ordered….Ornitherapy leads to a more mindful approach to the observation of birds, benefitting our mind, body, and soul.We’re pushed and pulled in many directions, no matter our age. If we allow birds and nature to slow us down, we are practicing a form of “selfcare”. Research shows that exposure to nature actively reduces stress, depression, and anxiety, while helping build a stronger heart and immune system.Birds are gateways into deeper experiences with nature, magnifying these benefits. Through observation, we can learn not only about birds, but gain insight into our own lives while exploring our connection to the world around us. This fosters stewardship and bolsters conservation.Within the program, we’ll delve into our connections to birds, how to practice Ornitherapy for optimal benefits, and learn about the latest research in the power of nature for overall wellbeing. Come listen to how watching birds can bring you more than just the enjoyment.Merker BIOHolly Merker has a background in art therapy, but today employs birds and nature toward the same goals of wellbeing in her work as an environmental educator and birding guide. Holly has worked as a professional birding instructor for National Audubon, the American Birding Association, and many other organizations.Passionate about connecting young people to birds, she co-founded the Frontiers in Ornithology Symposium, and has facilitated many young birder groups and teen birding camps. Dedicated to bird conservation, she has been state coordinator/reviewer for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird Pennsylvania since 2005, and a two-term voting member of the PA Ornithological Records Committee, as well as the Committee Chair.Holly is lead author of the book "Ornitherapy: For Your Body, Mind, and Soul "(along with co-authors Richard Crossley and Sophie Crossley, Crossley Books, 2021) and is currently promoting the practice of Ornitherapy and providing workshops and programs across the U.S.In her free time, Holly spends every possible moment practicing Ornitherapy herself, which she credits in helping her defeat breast cancer, restoring her health mentally and physically. Register in advance for this meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArceuvrD0tGdRv7Wal_tDSMOrD1mAUmqUf,After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Marcia AbrahamsPrograms CoordinatorQueens County Bird Clubwww.qcbirdclub.org Email: marciaaabrah...@aol.com -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Upcoming Queens County Bird Club/NY Zoom Meeting - Holly Merker presents "Ornitherapy: For Your Mind, Body, and Soul" - Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Upcoming Queens County Bird Club/NY Zoom Meeting When: Jun 15, 2022 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Holly Merker presents "Ornitherapy: For Your Mind, Body and Soul" Watching birds: not only fun, but good for you!Learn why getting your daily dose of Ornitherapy is just what the doctor ordered….Ornitherapy leads to a more mindful approach to the observation of birds, benefitting our mind, body, and soul.We’re pushed and pulled in many directions, no matter our age. If we allow birds and nature to slow us down, we are practicing a form of “selfcare”. Research shows that exposure to nature actively reduces stress, depression, and anxiety, while helping build a stronger heart and immune system.Birds are gateways into deeper experiences with nature, magnifying these benefits. Through observation, we can learn not only about birds, but gain insight into our own lives while exploring our connection to the world around us. This fosters stewardship and bolsters conservation.Within the program, we’ll delve into our connections to birds, how to practice Ornitherapy for optimal benefits, and learn about the latest research in the power of nature for overall wellbeing. Come listen to how watching birds can bring you more than just the enjoyment.Merker BIOHolly Merker has a background in art therapy, but today employs birds and nature toward the same goals of wellbeing in her work as an environmental educator and birding guide. Holly has worked as a professional birding instructor for National Audubon, the American Birding Association, and many other organizations.Passionate about connecting young people to birds, she co-founded the Frontiers in Ornithology Symposium, and has facilitated many young birder groups and teen birding camps. Dedicated to bird conservation, she has been state coordinator/reviewer for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird Pennsylvania since 2005, and a two-term voting member of the PA Ornithological Records Committee, as well as the Committee Chair.Holly is lead author of the book "Ornitherapy: For Your Body, Mind, and Soul "(along with co-authors Richard Crossley and Sophie Crossley, Crossley Books, 2021) and is currently promoting the practice of Ornitherapy and providing workshops and programs across the U.S.In her free time, Holly spends every possible moment practicing Ornitherapy herself, which she credits in helping her defeat breast cancer, restoring her health mentally and physically. Register in advance for this meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArceuvrD0tGdRv7Wal_tDSMOrD1mAUmqUf,After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Marcia AbrahamsPrograms CoordinatorQueens County Bird Clubwww.qcbirdclub.org Email: marciaaabrah...@aol.com -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Neotropic cormorant no
No sign of the Neotropic cormorant in Newburgh from noon to 3pm on either side of the river. Andrew Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Neotropic cormorant no
No sign of the Neotropic cormorant in Newburgh from noon to 3pm on either side of the river. Andrew Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Manhattan/N.Y. County, NYC - end of May migration, etc. (& a note on "local-patches")
*An 18-page journal article authored in 1995 (Point Reyes Bird Observatory, ) by P. Pyle and S.N.G. Howell gives, within the 2nd page in that article, titled "FLIGHT-FEATHER MOLT PATTERNS AND AGE IN NORTH AMERICAN WOODPECKERS”, a fairly straightforward rationale for the terminology used, and as to how adult plumage in reference to aging - and specifically for the Red-headed Woodpecker (for which extensive notes, and some illustrations, are included in said article), in which the spring-summer of the year after any (Red-headed) Woodpecker was hatched is referred to as **adult age** - notwithstanding variability in some feathers in age-transition (of that species in particular, and as-noted, by specimen-study in the case of that journal-article, as well as by many comm's. with other ornithologists and readings of the long literature in this group of birds, so well-watched by American field and museum workers). They (2 authors noted above) specifically state that there is juvenal, and then an adult, age-molt and plumage, the adult being reached by "the spring-after hatch-year." I would add that I have a very slight extra bit (away from the northeast U.S.) of experience with the species, Red-headed Woodpecker in a portion of its’ central breeding-range, when with ornithologists in Indiana and Illinois I participated (pro-bono) in some summer-season surveying for this and other 'oak-savanna' (and related-habitats) breeding birds, in association (in part) with Chicago, IL (org.-based) programs, and other regional org’s., at that time; the time-frame being before 1995 - as well as the experiences gained in participation on further field-surveys (preliminary to the publication of the above-noted journal article) in other regions and for some additional (many) species of birds. I’ll add that, of little interest to anyone, some of us NYC-birders begin our end-of-May days in bird-observations at an hour when birds (including even Red-headed Woodpecker!), are waking and are visible &/or audible, and those hours lately-begin at around 04:30 to 05:15 AM EDT local-time, or 08:30 to 09:15 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). The sun is visibly “up” by 5:28 for the date I referenced in the earlier (prior report) of RHWP from the Central Park Ramble, which was in adult plumage, at 2nd spring or further age. (The barring across some secondary feathers of some RHWP’s is not ‘consistent’ for all aging-purposes, and can in some individuals be retained to as much as 3+ years, while there are also instances of ‘1st-spring' RHWP’s where the white parts of their secondaries are ‘clear’ with no apparent dark-barring. All of this pointed out in the journal-article referenced above, and also much more-simply pointed up in the text-account for Red-headed Woodpecker in the very good 3rd edition, “Complete Birds of North America” by J. Alderfer & J.L. Dunn (editors), 2021, Nat’l. Geo. Soc. (n.b. this is not the field-guide edition, but rather the larger and more thorough desk-reference manual from the team at National Geographic; also I have no associations with the producers or sellers of this publication.) For extra-fun, there is the page (in last-referenced desk-manual, p.532) on the WOWA, or Wood Warbler [Phylloscopus sibilatrix], which is shown to be a ‘casual’ very-rare vagrant to Alaska, mainly in the Aleutians, and which breeds and migrates through Eurasia and winters esp. in tropical Africa. It is unheard-of in eastern N. America. [This volume also adds info. on many rather-rare ‘strays' that have occurred in some part of North America from various origin-points.] *Lengthy-entry-short, unless 2 somewhat-similar-looking RHWP’s were present within the same area of the Central Park Ramble on Monday, May 30th in early a.m. hours - (and then one having been banded/ringed or tracked w/known hatch-site provenance) there is no *definitive* determination that that individual is a “2nd-cycle” bird, although much of the literature (as noted in part, above) allows that age-description as at least possible - but **not-possible to be "proven to precise age-year”, after the hatch-year (1st summer-fall-and-winter), via observation nor by photographs only** unless of a tracked-banded (etc.) individual, which this (1) bird was-is decidely not. My report for Central Park on the day had the note, "lingering on in the Ramble area” to denote that this adult-plumaged woodpecker was still around even after being heard and seen, at 05:35 thru 05:48 EDT (local time); one of several of this spring for N.Y. County & will be esp. interesting should it linger any further there. ….. A note, as much of migration winds-down for spring, this year in N.Y. City and adjacent areas etc. What is the single-most productive park for smaller landbird (mainly passerine) migrants - *PER SQUARE-METER OR SQUARE-FOOT* area - of its’ footprint, *in Manhattan* (and for New York County, by actual confirmed
[nysbirds-l] Manhattan/N.Y. County, NYC - end of May migration, etc. (& a note on "local-patches")
*An 18-page journal article authored in 1995 (Point Reyes Bird Observatory, ) by P. Pyle and S.N.G. Howell gives, within the 2nd page in that article, titled "FLIGHT-FEATHER MOLT PATTERNS AND AGE IN NORTH AMERICAN WOODPECKERS”, a fairly straightforward rationale for the terminology used, and as to how adult plumage in reference to aging - and specifically for the Red-headed Woodpecker (for which extensive notes, and some illustrations, are included in said article), in which the spring-summer of the year after any (Red-headed) Woodpecker was hatched is referred to as **adult age** - notwithstanding variability in some feathers in age-transition (of that species in particular, and as-noted, by specimen-study in the case of that journal-article, as well as by many comm's. with other ornithologists and readings of the long literature in this group of birds, so well-watched by American field and museum workers). They (2 authors noted above) specifically state that there is juvenal, and then an adult, age-molt and plumage, the adult being reached by "the spring-after hatch-year." I would add that I have a very slight extra bit (away from the northeast U.S.) of experience with the species, Red-headed Woodpecker in a portion of its’ central breeding-range, when with ornithologists in Indiana and Illinois I participated (pro-bono) in some summer-season surveying for this and other 'oak-savanna' (and related-habitats) breeding birds, in association (in part) with Chicago, IL (org.-based) programs, and other regional org’s., at that time; the time-frame being before 1995 - as well as the experiences gained in participation on further field-surveys (preliminary to the publication of the above-noted journal article) in other regions and for some additional (many) species of birds. I’ll add that, of little interest to anyone, some of us NYC-birders begin our end-of-May days in bird-observations at an hour when birds (including even Red-headed Woodpecker!), are waking and are visible &/or audible, and those hours lately-begin at around 04:30 to 05:15 AM EDT local-time, or 08:30 to 09:15 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). The sun is visibly “up” by 5:28 for the date I referenced in the earlier (prior report) of RHWP from the Central Park Ramble, which was in adult plumage, at 2nd spring or further age. (The barring across some secondary feathers of some RHWP’s is not ‘consistent’ for all aging-purposes, and can in some individuals be retained to as much as 3+ years, while there are also instances of ‘1st-spring' RHWP’s where the white parts of their secondaries are ‘clear’ with no apparent dark-barring. All of this pointed out in the journal-article referenced above, and also much more-simply pointed up in the text-account for Red-headed Woodpecker in the very good 3rd edition, “Complete Birds of North America” by J. Alderfer & J.L. Dunn (editors), 2021, Nat’l. Geo. Soc. (n.b. this is not the field-guide edition, but rather the larger and more thorough desk-reference manual from the team at National Geographic; also I have no associations with the producers or sellers of this publication.) For extra-fun, there is the page (in last-referenced desk-manual, p.532) on the WOWA, or Wood Warbler [Phylloscopus sibilatrix], which is shown to be a ‘casual’ very-rare vagrant to Alaska, mainly in the Aleutians, and which breeds and migrates through Eurasia and winters esp. in tropical Africa. It is unheard-of in eastern N. America. [This volume also adds info. on many rather-rare ‘strays' that have occurred in some part of North America from various origin-points.] *Lengthy-entry-short, unless 2 somewhat-similar-looking RHWP’s were present within the same area of the Central Park Ramble on Monday, May 30th in early a.m. hours - (and then one having been banded/ringed or tracked w/known hatch-site provenance) there is no *definitive* determination that that individual is a “2nd-cycle” bird, although much of the literature (as noted in part, above) allows that age-description as at least possible - but **not-possible to be "proven to precise age-year”, after the hatch-year (1st summer-fall-and-winter), via observation nor by photographs only** unless of a tracked-banded (etc.) individual, which this (1) bird was-is decidely not. My report for Central Park on the day had the note, "lingering on in the Ramble area” to denote that this adult-plumaged woodpecker was still around even after being heard and seen, at 05:35 thru 05:48 EDT (local time); one of several of this spring for N.Y. County & will be esp. interesting should it linger any further there. ….. A note, as much of migration winds-down for spring, this year in N.Y. City and adjacent areas etc. What is the single-most productive park for smaller landbird (mainly passerine) migrants - *PER SQUARE-METER OR SQUARE-FOOT* area - of its’ footprint, *in Manhattan* (and for New York County, by actual confirmed
