Tuesday evening (November 15th, 2016) the Linnaean Society of New York 2016-17 Speaker Program will feature two more interesting presentations. The first of which should be of significant interest to NYC birders.
At 6:00 PM, Rita McMahon, co-founder and director of the Wild Bird Fund, will talk about the origins of New York City's one and only wildlife rehabilitation and education center, as well as its day-to-day operations and mission. Prior to the Wild Bird Fund Center opening in 2012, New York was the only major city in the United States that did not have a hospital for wildlife. In the first year of operation the WBF center treated 1,500 birds and animals; in 2016 the number of WBF patients will rise to over 4,000. Following the brief business meeting at 7:30 PM, Todd Gardner will present Drifters: A Guide to the Stray Tropical Fishes of New York. Off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the Gulf Stream transports approximately 100 million cubic meters of seawater northward per second. Dwelling within this, the world's most powerful ocean current, is a diverse ecosystem of resident, transient, and planktonic marine life. Many of these animals are destined to never encounter a suitable habitat, but for one poorly studied group of fishes, it means being deposited along a temperate shoreline during the summer, where water temperatures are high enough to support them for only a few months of each year. For 30 years, Todd Gardner has been collecting and cataloging tropical fish species in the waters around Long Island, New York. In that time he has recorded more than 100 species of tropical marine fish here and made some observations that demand further attention. Join Gardner, a professor of marine biology at Suffolk County Community College in Riverhead, and recipient of the prestigious Aquarist of the Year Award from the Marine Aquarium Society of North America, as he discusses collection and husbandry techniques as well as the fate and ecology of these tropical drifters. Both presentations are free and will be held in the Linder Theater on the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Enter at West 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. All welcome! Complete details of these exciting presentations and the rest of the 2016-2017 program can be found here: http://linnaeannewyork.org/calendar-programs-trips/programs2016-2017.html Richard Fried The Linnaean Society of New York -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
