*** THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK - MEETING PROGRAM - AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY ***
Next TUESDAY (8 Nov 2011), *The Linnaean Society of New York* (TLS) will present another two part program featuring entertaining talks by Jerry Connolly and Tom Stephenson. The theme of the night is ways to improve your birding experience, by eye or by ear. The program is held at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. *6:00 p.m. OPTICS - JERRY CONNOLLY* Owner of The Audubon Shop in Madison, Connecticut, and a member of Swarovski Optik’s Birding Advisory Council, Jerry Connolly will display, discuss, and allow hands-on tryouts of the latest in birding optics. He will also offer tips on how to become a better digiscoper (one who takes digital photographs through a spotting scope). *7:30 p.m. WARBLERS IN REAL LIFE - TOM STEPHENSON* In a preview of his forthcoming book of the same title, Tom Stephenson—musician, author, photographer, lecturer, and tour leader—will focus on some lesser-known points of visual identification of warblers and how they, and thus other songbirds, can be identified by songs, flight calls, and contact calls, using sonograms and other techniques available free to computer users. He will also describe the system he created for learning bird songs after he had studied how memory actually works. “My own memory is nothing special,” he writes in one of his regular *Surfbird* blog posts, but he goes on to say, “using this system I have been able to learn 300 or 400 songs for each of my last several trips to Africa, South America, and Asia.” *WHERE AND WHEN* Both programs are open to the public FREE OF CHARGE and will be held in the Linder Theater on the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History. Enter the museum from the 77th Street entrance, where TLS members will be on hand to guide you up to the auditorium. The first program will last approximately one hour. Anyone wishing to meet Tom Stephenson before the 7:30 program may join the TLS party for dinner at Pappardella, 316 Columbus Ave. at 75th St., at 6 pm. The reservation will be in the name of Deutsch. *MORE INFORMATION ON THE TLS PROGRAM * Jeff Nulle (Vice-President and Chair of the Program Committee) has put together a spectacular program of invited speakers, workshops and video presentations for the coming 2011/2012 season. For more details, please check out (and bookmark) our website http://linnaeannewyork.org/programs.html or visit us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linnaean-Society-of-New-York/335385365977?ref=ts Hopefully many of you will be able to join us on Tuesday (no reservations necessary) for an educational evening. Angus Wilson Council Member, The Linnaean Society of New York -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
