*** THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK - MEETING PROGRAM - AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY ***
Next Tuesday evening (8 April 2014) the Society will host back-to-back presentations from two insightful and well-known visual artists reflecting on the intertwined topics of birds and birders. Please join us. *6:00 pm -- Kimball Redux * Jeffrey Kimball, whose film *Birders: The Central Park Effect* was a resounding hit among both birders and non-birders, will lead participants in the film in a discussion of the making and contents of the movie and will show some memorable outtakes. *7:30 pm -- The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, Julie Zickefoose* After graduating from Harvard, where she studied art and biology, Julie Zickefoose worked for six years as a field biologist for The Nature Conservancy. She is now a columnist (*Birdwatcher's Digest*), blogger (three a week, averaging about 24,000 hits each), lecturer, wildlife rehabilitator, bird tour leader, artist and author of several books, and she recently completed a five-year stint as a monthly commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered." The AOU and the Academy of Natural Sciences chose her as one of the primary illustrators of their 17-volume *The Birds of North America*. Her talk is based on her latest book, which is illustrated by 320 of her pencil drawings and watercolors, about which Scott Weidensaul says, "[m]ore than almost any other contemporary artist, Zick has the ability to capture the spark of the living creature -- the gift for translating motion and color into line and form while retaining the essence of the bird." The book is perhaps the only nature book ever to have been reviewed favorably in the *New York Review of Books* (by Linnaean past president Robert O. Paxton) and to have also been chosen as 'Book of the Week' by Oprah Winfrey. Ms. Zickefoose writes, "The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds is about what happens when, by virtue of raising it when it's orphaned or helping it when it's hurt, you are taken into the confidence of a wild bird. It's about the unexpected mental and emotional capacities of birds, especially songbirds, which we tend to underestimate and overlook. Everyone knows that crows, ravens and parrots are intelligent, but have you thought about hummingbirds? I have a unique perspective, having been mother to six. And chimney swifts, cedar waxwings, mourning doves, cardinals and rose-breasted grosbeaks, to name a few. Join me for an intimate, eye-opening look at the rich mental and emotional landscape of birds." *WHERE & WHEN* Both programs are open to the public FREE OF CHARGE and will be held in the Kaufman Auditorium of the AMNH (note this is different from the usual auditorium). Enter the museum from the 77th Street entrance, where the route to the auditorium will be sign posted. The first program will last approximately one hour with time before the second program to talk to the speakers, and mingle with TLS officers and council members, who can provide information on becoming a part of this thriving natural history society. *MORE INFORMATION ON TLS PROGRAMS* 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<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linnaean-Society-of-New-York/335385365977?ref=ts> Look forward to seeing you on Tuesday (no reservations necessary). Angus Wilson President, 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/ --
