While a little bit off topic I wanted to let everyone know about the upcoming 1st Annual Long Island Natural History Conference that will take place at Brookhaven National Lab on Friday, November 16th with field trips on Saturday. It will be a very informative Conference, with a variety of interesting topics and dynamic speakers all focusing on our region. There will be a highly informative presentation on Long Island bird migration by Shai Mitra. The other conference topics are: 1) the Biodiversity of Plum Island by Matt Schlesinger, 2) an overview of seal populations on LI by Rob DiGiovanni, 3) a program on Long Island Butterflies by Rich Cech, 4) the natural history of alewives by Byron Young, 5) the story of Jeremy Feinberg's work to describe a new frog species right here in the NY metropolitan area, 6) the natural resources of Brookhaven National Laboratory by Tim Green, 7) an overview of efforts to monitor Horseshoe Crabs by Matt Sclafani, 8) the Diamondback Terrapins of Jamaica Bay by Dr. Russell Burke, 9) the natural history of Jamaica Bay by Don Riepe, 10) the return of the River Otter to LI by Mike Bottini, 11) and a lecture on the status of Atlantic White Cedars on Long Island by John Turner.
Key Note speaker Peter Alden will be presenting on "Changes to our Flora and Fauna". Peter brings a wealth of experience in world wide birding and natural history tours as well as a deep knowledge of biodiversity issues in eastern North America. I encourage you to visit the below link and pre-register for the $20.00 fee. The walk in rate is $25.00- cash and check will be accepted, no credit cards http://longislandnature.org/ There will be a wine and cheese reception to follow from 5:00pm - 6:30pm. Hope to see you there!!!!! John Turner -- 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/ --
