Date: 11/17/24 9:20 am From: Christy Zwicke via groups.io <christyzwicke...> Subject: [sbcobirding] Free Program on Endangered Birds
Dear all,
Please join us for our last evening program for 2024: *Belonging on an
Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i.*
Date: *Tuesday, November 19*
Time: *7:00 to 8:30 pm *
Place: *Fleischmann Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History*
The program is free of charge. No registration is required.
Environmental historian and author Daniel Lewis will deliver a free
illustrated public lecture based on his book *Belonging on an Island -
Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i. *This event is presented by
the Santa Barbara Audubon Society.
A native of Hawai’i, Lewis will talk about extinct and endangered birds of
Hawai’i, evolution, survival, conservationists and the concept of
belonging. Birds discussed will include the Stumbling Moa-Nalo, the Palila,
and the Japanese White-eye. He’ll also speak briefly about the birds
highlighted in his most recent book, *Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our
Future*.
Daniel Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and
Technology at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanic Gardens and a
writer and college professor. He writes about the biological sciences and
their intersections with extinction, policy, culture, history, politics,
law and literature.
Lewis serves on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology,
where he teaches environmental history and humanities courses, as well as
at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He is also currently
serving a five-year term as a commissioner on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission and member of the Bird
Red List Authority. Lewis is also the author of *The Feathery Tribe: Robert
Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds *and* Iron Horse Imperialism: The
Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880-1951.*
