Host: Allegany & Garrett Counties Bird Club Prior to the meeting, the Google Meets link will be shared in a Bird Club email. For the phone number and pass code please contact Raquel Ketterman at 301-268-6746. Description: Program TBA
Host: Patuxent Bird Club/PGAS Description: MAGLEV High Speed Train Proposal: Oncoming Destruction of Critical Habitat at Patuxent Research Refuge & Beltsville Agriculture Research Center, presented by Sam Droege. This program will be presented via Zoom and is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required and seats are limited. Please register no later […]
Host: Howard County Bird Club People who are nonmembers of the HCBC must email Mary Lou Clark (doctorfx_99@yahoo.com) in order to receive a ticket to this virtual event. Description: Sam Droege will speak on “The Birds and the BEES!” Sam has spent most of his career at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. He has […]
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Description: While only authorized board members have a vote, any club member is welcome to attend and participate in discussions. Call any club officer or board member for details.
Host: Montgomery Bird Club Description: Last April, Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper joined friends from England for two weeks in Panama. This was Gail and Barry’s third trip to that country, but reports of breeding Crested and Harpy Eagles provided a great reason for another visit! The group spent about five days at the famous […]
Host: Anne Arundel Bird Club Description: “What 20 Years of Bird Banding Has Taught Us” We are all aware that the numbers of birds and species we see on trips or at our feeders are changing. Please join us to learn what Maren Gimpel has to say on the subject. She is on the front […]
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Contact CK McAuliffe at cjhome23@gmail.com Description: Speaker: Martin Brazeau, academic advisor at the Community College of Baltimore County, avid bird videographer, and MD/DC BBA3 atlaser. Marty will share with us wonderful high-def videos of birds in Australia, China, and the MD/DC area; and he will discuss his top ten strategies […]
Host: Lights Out Towson University Description: Come Zoom with Kathy Woods, founder of Phoenix Wildlife Center—a renowned wildlife rehabilitation center. Serving local wildlife for almost 30 years, they treat and rehabilitate birds, mammals, and reptiles in order to re-release them into their natural habitat. One of their areas of expertise is helping birds that have […]
Host: Frederick Bird Club Description: Antonio Celis-Murillo, Acting Chief of Bird Banding Lab at Patuxent Wildlife Center will speak.
Host: MOS Contact Maryanne Dolan, maryanne.dolan@gmail.com Description: Board meeting via Zoom.
Host: Montgomery Bird Club Leader Mark England, 240-308-4114 or englandmark@comcast.net. Description: Early waterfowl and lingering migrants plus late afternoon marsh watch. Brown-headed Nuthatch possible. Bring lunch and drinks. Reservations required. Limit: 6. Contact the leader for meeting place and time.
Description: Annual Holiday Movie Night: “View from the Edge,” a series of four short films featuring the images of award-winning nature photographer David Harp, exploring the edges where land and water meet in the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Coastal Bays. The films are narrated by Tom Horton and were produced by Harp and Horton for […]
Host: Baltimore Cird Club. Description: Online Meeting. While only authorized board members have a vote, any club member is welcome to attend and participate in discussions. Call any club officer or board member for information. Online details to be announced.
Description: Maryland & DC Breeding Bird Atlas 3 (BBA-3) year-end report by Gabriel Foley, BBA-3 coordinator. Gabe is an avid birder from the prairie province of Saskatchewan, Canada. While at the University of Regina, he researched nighthawk habitat use in Canada’s boreal forest, then he studied White-browed Sparrow-Weaver nest-building behavior at the University of Pretoria, […]
NOTE: conditions at the time of the meeting may change plans. Host: Contact: George Radcliffe, radclifg@gmail.com, 410-463-1669 Description: YMOS Annual Meeting
Description: “Cape May Capers”, a talk on the birds and birding sites of Cape May and environs. December can be a time of backyard birding as we dream of spring. When birders think of spring birding, they often think of migration at Cape May, NJ. So brave that December cold and come out to hear […]
Clare Nemes will speak on “FREE-ROAMING CATS: ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF THE WORLD’S MOST BELOVED INVASIVE SPECIES” Clare is in the lab of Dr. Emily Cohen at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Lab in Frostburg, MD. She is studying various aspects of bird biology and conservation, including songbird migration ecology and the […]
Dr. Wayne Munns will speak on “Birding Africa: A Naturalist’s Hike up Mt. Kilimanjaro.” Dr. Munns is an avid birdwatcher who has travelled the world searching for birds in various habitats. During the week he is a Supervisory Life Scientist at EPA’s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Narraganset, RI. His work has focused […]
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Description: CCBC members and guests only. Venue to be determined; further information will be provided when arrangements are finalized.
Sarah Luttrell will speak on “Bird Songs”. Acoustic communication is important for birds. Luckily for us, bird and human hearing ranges largely overlap, allowing us to key in on this communication channel for general enjoyment, and for better birding. Sarah Luttrell is a research assistant in the Feather Identification Lab at the Smithsonian Institution. She […]
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MOS Mailing Address:
Maryland Ornithological Society, Inc.
Cylburn Mansion
4915 Greenspring Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21209