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Montclair Bird Club Meetings

Regular meetings of the Montclair Bird Club are held on the second Wednesday of the month (excluding July, August and December) at 7:30pm.

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.

Wednesday, January 14: Color and visual system evolution in birds

By Whitney Tssai Nakashima. Birds see and produce an astonishing diversity of colors that span the human visible and ultraviolet spectrums. These colors are produced by numerous mechanisms and may be perceived by bird species differently depending on their visual system sensitivity. In this presentation, Whitney will discuss how birds make the avian rainbow, how color functions in the life of birds, and explore how visual system sensitivities have evolved across the bird tree

January, date tbd: The Italian Avifauna and Its Conservation

7:30 pm on Zoom: with Marco Valtriani, ornithologist, birding guide, and head biologist at S-Cape Italy. For the Zoom meeting link, email MontclairBirdClub1920@gmail.com .

Wednesday, February 11: Street Smarts: how city raptors thrive in bird hell.

Vladimir Dinets will talk about birds of prey that manage to adapt to the dangers of urban environment, and the amazing new behaviors that they invent. He got his Ph.D. in Zoology (Animal Behavior), studying performing arts (songs and dances) of crocodilians. He has also worked on whooping crane reintroduction in Louisiana, studied ptarmigan wintering in the High Arctic, play behavior in fish, endothermy in spotted lanternflies, bat survival during supertyphoons, and various

Recent Meetings

January 2024: A Man, a Plan, a Whole Lotta Birds, by Rick Wright

February 2024: Whimbrels on the Texas Coast, by Sam Wolfe

March 2024: Searching for the Goshawk, by Conor Mark Jameson

April 2024: The Life of the Whooping Crane, by Paityn Bower

May 2024: Birding Colombia's Andes, by Debbie Bifulco

June 2024: Annual Members and Friends Meeting

September 2024: The American Woodcock, by Pete Axelrod

October 2024: Birding the Great Plains, by Tom Gannon

November 2024: Through the Looking Glass with a Grateful Birder, by Kevin Karlson

January 2025: Audubon Redrawn, by Roberta Olson

February 2025: Vanishing Shorebirds, by Soheil Zendeh

March 2025: Hummingbirds of the Western United States, by Steve Bouricius

For the Zoom link to our online meetings, e-mail montclairbirdclub100@gmail.com.

The Montclair Bird Club

Celebrating Over 100 Years of Birding

Montclair Bird Club Meetings

Wednesday, January 14: Color and visual system evolution in birds

January, date tbd: The Italian Avifauna and Its Conservation

Wednesday, February 11: Street Smarts: how city raptors thrive in bird hell.

Recent Meetings