Date: 11/16/24 10:14 am From: 'BCO gal' via Colorado Birds <cobirds...> Subject: [cobirds] CFO's Dead of Winter Knowledge Quest Starts this Wednesday!
CFO's Speaker Series, aka *Dead of Winter Knowledge Quest* kicks off this Wednesday, November 20th from 7:00 - 8:30 pm with a presentation by Eric DeFonso on the Birds of New Zealand. This first Speaker Series presentation will be hosted by Tykee James.
Take a look at the description of this event. The registration link can be found below. Join us!
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New Zealand is frequently overlooked as a birding destination. It certainly is renowned on the general travel circuit with good reason, for trekking, skiing, adventure tourism, and now as a Lord of the Rings shooting location. But as a temperate climate region in the southern hemisphere, it is often overshadowed by neighboring Australia as well as other tropical locales like southeast Asia or even Africa. Thus New Zealand tends to be prioritized lower by birders.
This is unfortunate though, because the country is very accessible to English speakers both culturally and ornithologically, and offers remarkable birding opportunities alongside remarkable geology, scenery, and fascinating human history.
In Nov 2023, Eric took a monthlong birding vacation to this distant land, fulfilling a longstanding bucket list dream and exploring bird families entirely unfamiliar to us Colorado residents including penguins, kiwis, and albatrosses. Endemic songbirds like Tui, stitchbirds, and saddlebacks also provided enthralling birding experiences.
Join Eric as he shares the details of his 28-day journey to Aotearoa (the Maori language name for New Zealand), where he explored both the North and South Islands, visiting a land that has been known to birds for nearly 70 million years but to land mammals and humans for less than one thousand.
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