[cayugabirds-l] March meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club

2018-03-08 Thread cl...@juno.com
Next Monday, March 12, will be the next monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club. Our speakers will be Alizé Carrère, National Geographic Explorer & Cultural Ecologist and Shawn Billerman, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Alizé's presentation is titled: Adapt

[cayugabirds-l] Rosemary Grant at Cornell this Monday, 5:00pm in Call Auditorium

2018-03-08 Thread Marc Devokaitis
Hi Everyone, Hopefully you have all gotten word about this exciting lecture coming up on Monday. Rosemary Grant is a legend in the field of evolutionary biology and ornithology, famous for her work on the Galapagos "finches" (actually in the tanager family). Hugh Powell interviewed Dr. Grant for

[cayugabirds-l] Purple Finches

2018-03-08 Thread Laura Stenzler
Hi all, We still have a group of around 13 Purple Finches coming to our feeders. I've seen up to 4 brilliant purple males and the rest are either young males (mostly female plumage with some purple on the throat) or female plumaged individuals. Yesterday we had our first 3 turkeys of the