Next Monday, April 10, will be the next monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club. Bruce Smith and Katherine [Kit] Muma, will give their presentation, "Kiwis and Kokakos: Wildlife Conservation in New Zealand". Although they have both been on faculty in the Biology Dept. at Ithaca College, Bruce retired 3 years ago. His courses included Animal Behavior; Aquatic Ecology; and Parasites and Vectors of Disease. Among the courses Kit has taught are Field Ornithology, and Bird Brains and Mind Games: Animal Consciousness. They spent parts of their last two sabbatical leaves in New Zealand. New Zealand bird species evolved in isolation, remote from any other significant land masses and virtually without terrestrial mammals. Consequently, the bird fauna was poorly adapted for the onslaught of mammalian predators that came with human settlement, first with the Maori people and later with European colonists. A significant proportion of the woodland species went extinct and many of the remaining ones are few in number and isolated on offshore island or remote patches of native forest. New Zealand, however, is a world leader in conservation, and has brought a number of their species back from the brink of extinction. Join us for an evening of video and still photography of birds of New Zealand, and a discussion of the challenges they face.The meeting will be held at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Doors open at 7:00 pm and there will be cookies and conversation starting at 7:15. Bird club business begins at 7:30 pm followed by the presentation. All are welcome.There will be no speaker dinner before the Club meeting. See you all on Monday. Colleen RichardsCorresponding SecretaryCayuga Bird Club ____________________________________________________________ 3 Foods Surgeons Are Now Calling "Death Foods" 3 Harmful Foods http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/58e5a54de48e2254d6ea7st01duc --
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