The Queens County Bird Club will hold its next meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 7:30 pm.
The presentation will be “"Snowy Owls: The Ultimate Nomads" by Jean-Francois Therrien of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. When there is a winter “invasion” of Snowy Owls, birders go nuts. Why does this happen—the invasion, that is? As senior research biologist at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania, Canadian-born Jean-François Therrien will review recent results of the sanctuary’s research program, emphasizing the movement patterns as well as the reproductive behavior of Snowy Owls. He will demonstrate the fieldwork and the monitoring techniques that are used for these highly mobile and unpredictable predatory birds over a period of consecutive years. Therrien is currently at work on various aspects of raptor conservation science such as satellite tracking of hawks, falcons, vultures, and owls—especially the close monitoring of American Kestrel populations. Registration link is on the home page of www.qcbirdclub.org <http://www.qcbirdclub.org/> Or use this link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItdu2trDMuHd3EuTj5uyvMKkwcJOvR2hOD <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItdu2trDMuHd3EuTj5uyvMKkwcJOvR2hOD> Hope to “see" you then. Nancy Tognan nancy.tog...@gmail.com <mailto:nancy.tog...@gmail.com> Vice President, Queens County Bird Club See http://www.qcbirdclub.org <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/ --