Date: 10/23/24 8:54 am From: Leslie Kramer <kramer.lf...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] Brookline Bird Club Hybrid Fall Meeting This Friday
Join us at Harvard University's Geological Hall, 100 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, for our fall hybrid meeting, open to all. 6:30 social hour, 7 PM
meeting, including Hog Island recipient presentations, announcements, and
guest speaker Dr. Alan Poole.
A dazzling and legendary bird of the highland forests of Mexico and Central
America, Aztec and Mayan cultures revered the Resplendent Quetzal. How have
conservation efforts failed it in many regions, but given it a boost in
others? What else do we know? We will focus on the RQ’s nesting and feeding
ecology, on its central role in Mayan and Aztec religions, on how it fits
into the increasingly threatened rainforests that sustain it, and on what
lies ahead for this bird. Dr. Alan Poole will share the latest research on
this spectacular bird.
Note: Dr. Poole will have books to sell. Paying by Venmo, cash and check is
all okay. Dr. Poole will have a card swiper for credit cards.
An ornithologist with training at Princeton, Yale, and Woods Hole, Alan
Poole has had a long career in the worlds of research and publishing. He is
an Associate of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a Fellow of the American
Ornithological Society, and the recently retired editor of the Birds of
North America (BNA) – an 18 volume, 18,000 page life history series now
online at Cornell. In addition to editing, Alan has spent over 40 years in
studies of coastal birds, particularly Ospreys, and completed his 2 nd book
on that species (Ospreys: the revival of a global raptor; Johns Hopkins
University Press) in 2019. His new book about the Resplendent Quetzal, a
Neotropical cloud forest beauty, was published by Cornell/Zona Tropical in
October 2023.
Free parking at 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Check the BBC website for details and the zoom registration.
