The Montclair Bird Club
Celebrating Over 100 Years of Birding
To attend any of our online events, write MontclairBirdClub1920@gmail.com for a Zoom invitation. Invitations are issued by e-mail the day before each event.
Read the latest issue of our newsletter, The Broadwing.
Welcome to the Montclair Bird Club
Wednesday Morning Walks
Join Fred Pfeifer each Wednesday morning at 8:00 for a walk around Garret Mountain Reservation or another nearby park to enjoy the avian treasures of the season. Text Fred at 973 809-7674 to register and to find out the meeting location.
Beginning June 26th is a chance to see some of the rarest Audubon original prints still in existence. The exhibition, entitled "Audubon Songbirds from the Dr. Michael and Elyn Stubblefield Collection," runs until November. Highly recommended!
Audubon Songbirds
Photo by JoAnn Katzban
Wild Inside presented by Montclair Film
In August, the Montclair Bird Club was invited by Montclair Film to table at a special showing of Wild Inside, a documentary about Flaco, the Eurasion eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, learned to hunt and survive in Manhattan, and who succumbed to rat poison shortly after its first year of freedom.
After the film’s showing, the documentary’s producer, Penny Lane, participated in a Q&A discussion on how the film was made and the pros and cons of keeping wild animals in zoos. In addition to highlighting Flaco’s adventures in the year that he was free, it also focused on the committed band of bird watchers whose daily efforts to follow and photograph Flaco provided the filmmaker with spectacular footage and deep insight into the world of birding.
Custom Bird Guides series
by Rick Wright and Sandy Sorkin.
Feeding Birds in Northern New Jersey and Watching Birds in Montclair are now available from the Club and at Watchung Booksellers and at Wild Birds Unlimited, Paramus!