Date: 11/2/25 3:58 am From: Colleen Richards <clr82...> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club November meeting
Join us on Monday, November10 for the Cayuga Bird Club's November meeting at 7:30 at the Lab of Ornithology.
"Bird Love: Why Identify With Birds?" Our speaker will be Dr. Wenfei Tong, Science Editor, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Center for Conservation MediaBirds exhibit a wide array of behaviors—from sabotaging budding romances to outsourcing childcare duties. Why do they behave as they do? Using diverse examples from around the world, Dr. Wenfei Tong will present vignettes about the private lives of birds in an evolutionary context, to show the science behind how much humans and birds have in common. She will discuss stories from her books Bird Love and Understanding Bird Behavior that highlight the work of participatory scientists and female or minority biologists and illustrate the talk with her art and photographs. About the Speaker: Wenfei is a biologist, conservationist and writer based at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where she helps distill science to achieve targeted conservation outcomes. She has studied birds, guided tours, wrangled undergraduates, moved cattle and hunted in the grasslands of Montana and subsaharan Africa, and is writing her third book about the deep history humans and grasslands share. You can find out more about her work at www.wenfeitong.com There will be dinner with Wenfei at the Sumo restaurant prior to the meeting at 5:30 pm. If interested in coming please RSVP to Colleen Richards at <clr82...> by noon Monday (Nov. 10) so reservations can be made. Cayuga Bird Club meetings are held on the second Monday of each month, September through June, and are free and open to the public. In-person meetings are held September through May at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road. Doors open at 6:45pm for social time, at 7:20 is the reading of the basin bird list, club business starts at 7:30pm, followed by the speaker's presentation starting around 8:00pm and ending by 9:00pm. We will attempt to make presentations available virtually as a recording posted a few days later, on our YouTube channel @cayugabirdclub. Some meetings may shift to Zoom if warranted by circumstances.
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