The Queens County Bird Club will hold its next meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 7:30 pm.
Registration link: HERE <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkd-igrjMsE9K8qzu5dA5h4cuyyRry96IW> . You will receive an email from Zoom with a link to join the meeting. The presentation will be “The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey” by Deborah Cramer. Deborah Cramer will speak about her latest book, The Narrow Edge, in which she accompanied a small sandpiper on its 19,000 mile annual migration and witnessed how its life, and ours, depend on an ancient animal, the horseshoe crab. Each year tiny sandpipers—red knots—undertake a near miraculous 19,000 mile journey from one end of the earth to the other and back. In this firsthand account, Deborah Cramer accompanies them on their extraordinary odyssey along the length of two continents, tracking birds from remote Tierra del Fuego to the icy Arctic. On the full moon of spring’s highest tides, she seeks out horseshoe crabs, ancient, primordial animals whose eggs are essential to migrating shorebirds, and whose blue blood, unbeknownst to most people, safeguards human health. The Narrow Edge offers unique insight into how the lives of humans, red knots and horseshoe crabs are intertwined, and is an inspiring portrait of loss and resilience, of the tenacity of birds, and the courage of the many people who bird by bird and beach by beach, keep red knots flying. To read more about Deborah, and the many awards that her books have received, click here <https://deborahcramer.com/> for her website. Hope to “see" you then. Nancy Tognan nancy.tog...@gmail.com <mailto:nancy.tog...@gmail.com> Vice President, Queens County Bird Club See http://www.qcbirdclub.org <http://www.qcbirdclub.org/> for more information on trips, speakers, and other events. See our "Birding Sites" page for directions to and info about many local birding hotspots -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --