7:30 pm on Zoom: An exploration of how birds of prey manage to adapt to the dangers of urban environment, and the amazing new behaviors that they invent. Vladimir Dinets got his Ph.D. in Zoology (Animal Behavior), studying performing arts (songs and dances) in the crocodilians. He has also worked on whooping crane reintroduction in Louisiana and has studied ptarmigan wintering in the High Arctic, play behavior in fish, endothermy in spotted lanternflies, bat survival during supertyphoons,...

Song sparrow on left, field sparrow on right. Photo by Ric Cohn. Meet at 8:30 am at the Helen C. Fenske Visitor Center, 32 Pleasant Plains Road, Harding Township, NJ. Canceled if weather is threatening. Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is a 7,000-acre refuge in suburban Morris County. It has a variety of habitats, including hardwood swamp, marsh, upland deciduous woods, fields, and open water, which support a wide diversity of bird life year-round. We will start at the Helen Fenske...

Led by Donna Traylor. Montclair Bird Club will be visiting Cape Ann in Massachusetts again this year. This February outing is a two-and-a-half–day trip through the Cape Ann peninsula (Amesbury, Gloucester, Rockport, Plum Island, Bass Rocks, and more). It’s a cold and windy trip that often turns up some very interesting birds, including white-winged gulls, alcids, scoters and other ducks, both loons, or snowy and short-eared owls. Reservation and Sign-up Details Hotel: Fairfield Inn 35 Clarks...