The North Shore Audubon Society will present *Parrot and Parakeet Conservation: Adventures on New Zealand's South Island *via Zoom tonight (February 28) at 7pm.
Zoom registration link: http://bit.ly/3lrHsvP Parrots and parakeets once were very abundant on New Zealand’s islands, so much so that one observer said that parrots were so numerous that they could be shaken from a tree like apples. Following the colonization of New Zealand by Polynesians, and then by Europeans, all bird species’ numbers declined, including the curious and brightly-colored Psittacids: the parrots and parakeets. In response to the wholesale decline of native bird species, New Zealand has led the charge in conservation efforts aimed at returning natural taonga (treasures) back to the land. Join Dr. Doug Robinson to learn about the current efforts to return New Zealand’s parrots and parakeets to their historic numbers as he speaks about his sabbatical research on Yellow-crowned Parakeets and Kākāpō. *Dr. Doug Robinson* is an evolutionary ecologist interested in the environmental factors (physical and social) that contribute to bird behavior. Dr. Robinson has been studying bird biology since 1994 and has worked with grassland birds, seabirds, and conducted long-term behavioral research on American Crows. As a Associate Professor of Biology at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY, he has had the opportunity to teach courses in Ecology, Evolution, Animal Behavior, Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Human Anatomy and Physiology, and a 3-week course in Conservation of New Zealand plants and animals. Jonathan Herman Publicity volunteer, North Shore Audubon Society PO Box 763, Port Washington, NY 11050 www.northshoreaudubon.org northshoreaudubon...@gmail.com Note: If you do not want to receive these emails, please send your email address with NSAS-UNSUBSCRIBE in the Subject to northshoreaudubon...@gmail.com and we will not send you anything else. Please do NOT mark this email as spam. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
