THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater
Speaker: Paul Kerlinger, President, Curry & Kerlinger LLC.
Subject: Do Wind Turbines Kill Significant Numbers of Night Migrants?
This presentation on birds, wind turbines and communication towers will provide
a brief overview of the history of wind power in the United States and state of
the art information on how many and what types of birds are killed by wind
turbines. In addition, Dr. Kerlinger will present his most current research on
the role of the FAA in the lighting of communication towers. The results of
those studies promise to reduce fatalities at communication towers by more than
1 million night migrants per year.
Paul Kerlinger received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the State University of New York
(SUNY) at Albany. A nationally known avian expert, he has done groundbreaking
research on bird migration and behavior as well as the bird-tower issue. He
served as Director of New Jersey Audubon's Cape May Bird Observatory for seven
years and has worked with both environmental and industry groups across the
country on the issues of bird and habitat protection. Kerlinger is the author
of dozens of published scientific papers as well as five books, including How
Birds Migrate, Flight Strategies of Migrating Hawks and, as coauthor, The New
York City Audubon Society's Guide to Finding Birds in the Metropolitan Area.
The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please join us
for what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum at West 77th
Street. If you would like to meet Dr. Kerllinger prior to the talk, join us at
Pappardella's Restaurant, 75th Street and Columbus Avenue at 6 p.m. The
reservation will be in the name of Alice.
Alice Deutsch, Vice President
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