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BAS Monthly Meeting April 26, 2023

Event Chair: Lora Reynolds

DETAILS:

BAS Monthly Meeting
In-person 6:00 PM | Online 6:30 PM | Wednesday | April 26

30,000 Miles in Search of Godwits, from the Mexican Border to the Arctic Ocean
by Bruce Beehler, PhD

 

Between 2019 and 2022, Dr. Bruce Beehler completed five field trips in search of Hudsonian Godwits. He visited stop-over sites through the Great Plains; visited breeding habitat in western Alaska, Churchill, Manitoba, and the High Arctic of western Canada; and did field surveys at a famous autumn staging site in James Bay. In all, Dr. Beehler traveled solo by car more than 30,000 miles, encountering Hudsonian Godwits in 10 states and provinces. He also spent time with Marbled and Bar-tailed Godwits, and 33 additional shorebird species. Moreover, he accompanied various shorebird fieldworkers as they studied godwits and other species in remote and iconic field sites. In this illustrated lecture, Dr. Beehler will recount the highlights of his more than five months in the field, from Nome and Point Barrow to Tuktoyaktuk, Moosonee, and Monomoy Island.

 

Bruce Beehler is an ornithologist, conservationist, and naturalist. He is currently a Research Associate in the Division of Birds at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and a Scientific Affiliate of the American Bird Conservancy. After conducting doctoral fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Dr. Beehler worked for ten years at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, followed by stints at the Wildlife Conservation Society, U.S. Department of State, Conservation International, and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation.

Dr. Beehler is an elective Fellow of the American Ornithological Society and has served on the boards of the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and RARE. Currently, he serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rainforest Trust. He is book reviews editor for the Wilson Journal of Ornithology and associate editor for the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club. He has published 17 books and monographs and authored scores of technical and popular articles about birds and nature. In 2007, Dr. Beehler was featured in a 60-Minutes piece highlighting an expedition he led to the Foja Mountains in the interior of New Guinea in which scores of new species of plants and animals were discovered. In 2016, Dr. Beehler received the Bicentennial Medal from Williams College for his conservation work in the Pacific. In 2021, he was awarded the Elliott Coues Medal from the American Ornithological Society recognizing lifetime contribution to the field.

Please sign up if you plan to attend the meeting in person at Alamo Colleges District conference room (2222 N. Alamo Street) so we know how much food to bring and how many chairs are needed in configuring the conference room. BAS will provide sandwiches for the meeting and you are welcome to sign up to bring an appetizer, dessert, relish tray, etc.


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April 26, 2023
BAS Monthly Meeting April 26, 2023
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 8:00 PM
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