Chapter Meeting
- November 22, 2011
Meet
at Historic Bethabara Park Visitor Center
Social half-hour starts 7:00 p.m.
Business Meeting/Program at 7:30 p.m.
Topic: "Atlantic Flyway: From North Carolina to Nicaragua and Beyond"
Guest
Speaker: Curtis Smalling, IBA Coordinator and Mountain Area Biologist, Audubon North Carolina.
One of our most popular presenters returns to tie his studies of Golden-winged Warbers and other neotropical migrants in Nicaragua to their summer residences here in North Carolina and our chapter's bird surveys at the New River Corridor IBA.
Chapter Meeting
- October 25, 2011
Meet
at Historic Bethabara Park Visitor Center
Social half-hour starts 7:00 p.m.
Business Meeting/Program at 7:30 p.m.
Topic: "Brown-headed Nuthatch Declines: Are Bluebirds to Blame?"
Guest
Speaker: Dr. Mark Jackson, Prof. of Biology, Davidson College
Dr. Jackson will discuss his studies about nestbox competition among two of our favorite regional birds, the Brown-headed Nuthatch and the Eastern Bluebird. Carolina Chickadees also enter the drama. Be sure to learn about factors that may be causing local declines in the nuthatch population.
Meet
at Historic Bethabara Park Visitor Center
Social half-hour starts 7:00 p.m.
Business Meeting/Program at 7:30 p.m.
Topic: "Hovering Hummingbirds in 19th Century Art and Science"
Guest
Speaker: Dr. Betsy Towns, Prof. of Art Hisotry, UNC School of the Arts.
Martin Johnson Heade was a 19th century American artist who created many beautiful paintings of one of nature's most fascinating creatures. Dr. Towns will discuss both Mr. Heade's work and the birds themselves.
