Date: 4/22/24 7:17 am From: \Roger Shaw\ (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Chapel Hill Bird Club Meeting - 4/22 - Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal — The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
The Chapel Hill Bird Club is holding its monthly meeting on Monday, April 22nd
at 7:30 p.m. This meeting will be in-person with a Zoom option available.
Come at 7:15 for refreshments. Location is the lounge in Olin T. Binkley
Baptist Church, corner of Highway 15-501 Bypass and Willow Drive, behind
University Mall. Address: 1712 Willow Drive, Chapel Hill, NC.
Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal will walk through highlights of their book, A
Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds. This is the story of
what’s being done to save birds in the midst of dramatic downturns in North
American populations. Their presentation draws on their 25,000 miles of travel
across the hemisphere researching the book, interviews with 300 people in
every station in the world of birds, and scores of photos of the birds
featured in these pages.
Anders and Beverly are veteran journalists who’ve worked for decades as
reporters and editors. Beverly was a feature writer, then food editor, and
finally syndicated columnist and cookbook author. Anders was an investigative
reporter at The Miami Herald, then went on to lead newsrooms in Raleigh,
Minneapolis, Miami and Washington. He’s long been active in journalism
circles, serving on the board of the Pulitzer Prizes, Society of Newspaper
Editors and Journalism Funding Partners. As their work slowed down, they
started following birds and photographing and writing about them for magazines
and newspapers around the country. They also publish a photo-rich website,
FlyingLessons.US: What We’re Learning from the Birds.
Also, this will be your chance to ask “Ask Kent” anything about eBird. Kent
Fiala will answer one eBird question, to be drawn from a hat. Come prepared to
submit a question. Zoom attendees will also have the opportunity to submit a
question in the Chatbox.
