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 Programs / Lectures of The Linnaean Society of New YorkAdmission
to all lectures* of the Linnaean Society is free.
Come join us as we listen and watch informative presentations! At
regular meetings the Society presents speakers on natural history
topics. Lectures may be popular or technical and often are illustrated
with slides. Regular meetings are at 7:30 p.m.
on the second
and fourth
Tuesday evenings, September through May. The Annual Meeting and Dinner,
with the election of officers, is held during the second week of
March. The Society may hold informal summer meetings (on the third
Tuesday of June, July or August at 7:30 p.m.); as summer meetings are scheduled they
will be announced. (*Note: The Annual Meeting and Dinner is held at a private club for members of the Society and
their guests only and is closed to the public. All other programs are
open to the public.)
Unless another venue is noted, programs are held in the American Museum of Natural History, usually in the Lindner Theater; please enter at West 77th St. between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Lectures / Programs 2007-2008September 11, 2007 AVIAN VAGRANCY TO THE LIGHTHOUSE TRACT OF FIRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE: HISTORY, HIGHLIGHTS AND BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE Shaibal Mitra, College of Staten Island – editor of The Kingbird. (If you would like to meet the speaker prior to the talk, join us for dinner at 6PM at Pappardella's restaurant, 75th Street and Columbus Avenue; the reservation will be in the name of 'John'.) September 25, 2007 SEARCH FOR IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKERS IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE Geoffrey Hill, Auburn University – author of Ivorybill Hunters (2007), A Red Bird in a Brown Bag (2002) and editor (with K.J. McGraw) of Bird Coloration (2006).
October 23, 2007 IRRUPTIONS, RESOURCE EXPLOITATION AND FINCH NESTING IN NEW YORK Matthew Young, Field Ornithologist. WORKSHOP AT 6:30 PM: Behind the Scenes in Ornithology at AMNH Mary LeCroy, American Museum of Natural History November 13, 2007 GOLDEN-WINGED AND BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS: MATE CHOICE, HYBRIDIZATION AND CONSERVATION Rachel Vallender, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. WORKSHOP AT 6:30 PM: Behind the Scenes in Ornithology at AMNH Mary LeCroy, American Museum of Natural History
December 11, 2007 REAL BIRDS EAT SQUID (Pelagic birding in New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic islands) George Armistead, Field Guides (leader). January 8, 2008 AERODYNAMIC CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT IN BIRDS San Tarsitano, University of Connecticut – co-author, A. Feduccia, L. Martin & S. Tarsitano, Perspectives in Ornithology—Archaeopteryx 2007: Quo Vadis? The Auk (Vol. 124 2007). January 22, 2008 TALES OF WOE, DECEPTION, AND WONDER: THE MYRIAD DEFENSES OF NEW YORK'S CATERPILLARS David L. Wagner, University of Connecticut – author of Caterpillars of Eastern North America (2005). WORKSHOP AT 6:30 PM: Recent Ornithological Literature Joe DiCostanzo, Great Gull Island Project & American Museum of Natural History
February 26, 2008 THIS PROGRAM IS IN MEMORY OF JOHN BULL NEW YORK’S SECOND BREEDING BIRD ATLAS: 20 YEARS OF CHANGE Kimberley Corwin, Co-Editor – Atlas publication will be in 2008. March 11, 2008 LINNAEAN SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING & DINNER - ELECTION OF OFFICERS ALASKA—BIRDS AND WILDLIFE OF ALASKA & THE ARCTIC TUNDRA Kevin Karlson, Wildlife Photographer & Author - see The Shorebird Guide (2006). March 25, 2008 GREAT GULL ISLAND REPORT NOTE: This meeting begins at 7:00 PM Helen Hays, Working with Aquasis on the North Coast of Brazil; Joseph DiCostanzo, Mark Recapture Analysis of Roseate Tern Data from Bahia; Noah Burg, Nesting Patterns of Common Terns on Great Gull Island; Loretta Stillman, Sexing Terns Using DNA April 8, 2008 BICKNELL’S THRUSH—CONSERVING A BIRD OF TWO WORLDS Christopher Rimmer, Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences – see In Search of Haiti’s Birds, Living Bird (2007). Note: This program will be held in the People Center of the American Museum of Natural History, not in the Linder Theatre. April 22, 2008 THE PRISTINE MYTH (Columbus discovered wilderness or landscape?) Charles C. Mann, Author, Correspondent for Science and The Atlantic Monthly – author, 1491–New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2006). May 13, 2008 DNA BARCODING FOR IDENTIFICATION OF WORLD BIRDS Mark Stoeckle, The Rockefeller University. Summer Programs 2008
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