THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 7:30 p.m. The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater Speaker: Richard Crossley, Crossley Books Title: Past, Present and Future Richard Crossley's new book, The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds, uses over 10,000 of his photographs of 660 species of birds that occur in eastern North America. In the vast majority of cases, each species is shown in a large photograph, in its typical habitat, from numerous angles, at various distances, in all plumages, and in all its typical positions, whether perched, standing, flying, swimming or wading. The effect is to recreate the real-world experience of seeing and identifying birds in the wild, something no other book has attempted. The title of Mr. Crossley's talk refers to a look back at his own past, shaped by the intense British birding culture he grew up in, and the way his evolving understanding of how the best field birders identify birds meshed with the possibilities opened up by major changes in present-day technology and led to ideas for a new kind of nature guide and what we might look forward to in his and other guides in the future. Richard Crossley was born in Britain. He became a birder when he was ten and, he says, an "obsessed birder" when he went to college. In the next three years, he estimates that he hitchhiked more than 100,000 miles, birding in Britain and other European countries. He moved to the United States in 1991 and since then has photographed nearly every species of bird that occurs in North America. His photographs have appeared in many magazines and books, and he is a co-author with Michael O'Brien and Kevin Karlson of The Shorebird Guide. The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please join us for what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum at West 77th Street. If you would like to meet Mr. Crossley before the talk, join us at Gazala's Restaurant, 380 Columbus Avenue, between 78th and 79th Streets. The reservation will be in the name of Geoffrey. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A NEW VENUE FOR THE DINNER. Geoffrey Nulle, Vice President
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