*** THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK - MEETING PROGRAM - AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY ***
Next Tuesday (10 Feb 2015) the Society’s two-part evening program will begin with a bird identification quiz – some fun to help us forget the awful weather – and be followed by a voyage into the treetops with explorer/ecologist Mark Moffett. Please join us. *6:00-7:00 pm – Photo Quiz* Angus Wilson, President of the Linnaean Society of New York and Chairman of the New York State Avian Records Committee, will be the quizmaster. He writes, “One of the best ways to learn to identify birds is to study as many photographs as you can, building mental images and learning to zero in on the shapes and color patterns that matter. This will be a light-hearted quiz where you can test your knowledge and, I hope, learn a trick or two. The quiz will feature species that every birder worth his or her binoculars should know and perhaps a few that will stump even the experts in the audience. Sometimes the common birds can be tricky and the rare birds quite obvious. Join us and see how well you will do. Prizes for the top young birders.” *7:30-9:00 pm – Canopy Biology, Mark Moffett * Doctor Bugs is back! In this talk scientist and explorer Mark Moffett will take us into the treetops to observe how canopy biologists study these ecosystems and how they are put together. Most of the world’s terrestrial species, from flying birds to crawling ants, live within communities of trees. How so many species are able to live together in the canopy in some ways resembles the concerns of human architects and urban planners. He will conclude by comparing forest canopies to similarly structured ecosystems ranging from coral reefs to bacteria biofilms (such as the plaque on teeth). Moffett, once described as “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” is a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. He studied with conservation biologist Edward O. Wilson, has received the Explorers Club’s Lowell Thomas Award, is a regular contributor of photographs to National Geographic Magazine, and is the author of *The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy *(1993) and *Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions* (2010). *WHERE & WHEN* Both programs are open to the public FREE OF CHARGE and will be held in the Linder Theater of the AMNH. 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 LSNY officers and council members, who can provide information on becoming a part of this thriving and historic natural history society. *MORE INFORMATION ON LSNY PROGRAMS* Please check out (and bookmark) our website: http://linnaeannewyork.org/calendar-programs-trips/programs2014-2015.html or visit us on Facebook 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 (LSNY) -- 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/ --
