Date: 8/19/26 6:50 am From: Patrice Domeischel <fourharborsheron...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Tomorrow! Summer Lecture - 50,000 MILES IN SEARCH Of GODWITS - From the Mexican Border to the Arctic Ocean
Join us for an in-person presentation hosted jointly by Four Harbors Audubon Society and Seatuck Environmental Association.
50,000 MILES IN SEARCH Of GODWITS - From the Mexican Border to the Arctic Ocean
Guest Speaker: Bruce M. Beehler, PhD.
The Bates House, One Bates Road, Setauket, NY 11733
7:30 p.m.
Free and Open to all
Please register by emailing: <fourharborsheron...> <mailto:<fourharborsheron...>
Between 2019 and 2023, the speaker carried out thirteen road trips in search of Hudsonian Godwits. Beehler visited stop-over sites through the Great Plains; visited breeding habitat in western Alaska, Churchill, Manitoba, and the High Arctic of western Canada; and did field surveys at a famous autumn staging site in James Bay. In all, Beehler traveled solo by car more than 35,000 miles and 15,000 miles by plane and train, encountering Hudsonian Godwits in 10 states and provinces. He also spent time with Marbled and Bar-tailed Godwits, and 33 additional shorebird species. Moreover, Beehler accompanied various shorebird fieldworkers as they studied godwits and other species in remote and iconic field sites. In this illustrated lecture, Beehler will recount the highlights of his more than five months in the field, from Nome and Point Barrow to Tuktoyaktuk, Moosonee, and Monomoy Island.
Bruce Beehler is an ornithologist, conservationist, and naturalist. He is currently a Research Associate in the Division of Birds at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and a Scientific Affiliate of the American Bird Conservancy. Beehler has spent much of his scientific career studying and conserving birds and their forest habitats. After conducting doctoral fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Beehler worked for ten years at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, followed by stints at the Wildlife Conservation Society, US Department of State, Conservation International, and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation. Beehler is an elec- tive Fellow of the American Ornithological Society and has served on the boards of the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and RARE. Currently, Beehler serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rainforest Trust. Beehler has pub- lished seventeen books and monographs and authored scores of technical and popular articles about birds and nature. In 2007, Beehler was featured in a 60-Minutes piece highlighting an expedition he led to the Foja Mountains in the interior of New Guinea in which scores of new species of plants and animals were discovered. Today Beehler carries out natural history studies and writing focused on wildlife and natural places in North America.
Patrice Domeischel
Lecture Committee
Four Harbors Audubon Society
