[nysbirds-l] "The Narrow Edge" by Deborah Cramer. Queens County Bird Club presentation Wed. Jan 20 at 7:30 pm

[Nancy Tognan]

The Queens County Bird Club will hold its next meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, 
January 20, 2021 at 7:30 pm. 

Registration link:  HERE 
 
.  You will receive an email from Zoom with a link to join the meeting.

The presentation will be “The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, and an 
Epic Journey” by Deborah Cramer.
Deborah Cramer will speak about her latest book, The Narrow Edge, in which she 
accompanied a small sandpiper on its 19,000 mile annual migration and witnessed 
how its life, and ours, depend on an ancient animal, the horseshoe crab.   

Each year tiny sandpipers—red knots—undertake a near miraculous 19,000 mile 
journey from one end of the earth to the other and back. In this firsthand 
account, Deborah Cramer accompanies them on their extraordinary odyssey along 
the length of two continents, tracking birds from remote Tierra del Fuego to 
the icy Arctic. On the full moon of spring’s highest tides, she seeks out 
horseshoe crabs, ancient, primordial animals whose eggs are essential to 
migrating shorebirds, and whose blue blood, unbeknownst to most people, 
safeguards human health.  

The Narrow Edge offers unique insight into how the lives of humans, red knots 
and horseshoe crabs are intertwined, and is an inspiring portrait of loss and 
resilience, of the tenacity of birds, and the courage of the many people who 
bird by bird and beach by beach, keep red knots flying.

To read more about Deborah, and the many awards that her books have received, 
click here  for her website.

Hope to “see" you then.

Nancy Tognan
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 Sites" page for directions to and info about many local 
birding hotspots
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ARCHIVES:
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2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L
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Please submit your observations to eBird:
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[nysbirds-l] "The Narrow Edge" by Deborah Cramer. Queens County Bird Club presentation Wed. Jan 20 at 7:30 pm

[Nancy Tognan]

The Queens County Bird Club will hold its next meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, 
January 20, 2021 at 7:30 pm. 

Registration link:  HERE 
 
.  You will receive an email from Zoom with a link to join the meeting.

The presentation will be “The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, and an 
Epic Journey” by Deborah Cramer.
Deborah Cramer will speak about her latest book, The Narrow Edge, in which she 
accompanied a small sandpiper on its 19,000 mile annual migration and witnessed 
how its life, and ours, depend on an ancient animal, the horseshoe crab.   

Each year tiny sandpipers—red knots—undertake a near miraculous 19,000 mile 
journey from one end of the earth to the other and back. In this firsthand 
account, Deborah Cramer accompanies them on their extraordinary odyssey along 
the length of two continents, tracking birds from remote Tierra del Fuego to 
the icy Arctic. On the full moon of spring’s highest tides, she seeks out 
horseshoe crabs, ancient, primordial animals whose eggs are essential to 
migrating shorebirds, and whose blue blood, unbeknownst to most people, 
safeguards human health.  

The Narrow Edge offers unique insight into how the lives of humans, red knots 
and horseshoe crabs are intertwined, and is an inspiring portrait of loss and 
resilience, of the tenacity of birds, and the courage of the many people who 
bird by bird and beach by beach, keep red knots flying.

To read more about Deborah, and the many awards that her books have received, 
click here  for her website.

Hope to “see" you then.

Nancy Tognan
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 Sites" page for directions to and info about many local 
birding hotspots
--

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/

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