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Previous Programs

2024

Dr. Kelly Zamudio • Diversification and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians • 7 pm • 11/12/24
Dr. Andrew Farnsworth • Bird Migration in the Era of Big Data: BirdCast perspectives on the future of monitoring migrating birds • 7 pm • 10/8/24
Dr. Brooke Bateman • Birds Tell Us: Connecting biodiversity and climate science to on the ground conservation, public engagement, and policy actions • 7 pm • 9/10/24
Dr. Gail Patricelli • Robots, Telemetry, and the Sex Lives of Wild Birds: Using Technology to Study Courtship and Conservation • 7 pm • 5/14/24
Dr. Ben Winger • The Evolution of Seasonal Migration in Birds • 7 pm • 4/9/24
Dr. George Archibald • Cranes: Ambassadors for Wetlands, Grasslands and Goodwill • 7 pm • 3/12/24
Dr. Bruce Beehler • 30,000 Miles in Search of Godwits, from the Mexican Border to the Arctic • 7 pm • 2/13/24
Dr. Joan E. Strassmann • Slow Birding: How Do the Birds You Glimpse Live Their Lives? • 7 pm • 1/9/24

2023

Dr. Brian T. Smith • Insights into Avian Evolution from Natural History Collections • 7 pm • 12/12/23
Dr. Michael Donoghue • Fleshy Fruits and their Dispersal • 7 pm • 11/14/23
Dr. Margaret Rubega • Conservation Planning for the Future of Terns on Great Gull Island; What Next? • 7 pm • 10/10/23
Dr. Liliana M. Dávalos • Noctilionoid Bats are a Unique Mammalian Radiation: Here’s Why • 7 pm • 9/12/23
Dr. Pedro Piffer • Do Regenerated Forests Survive? Towards a Better Understanding of the Drivers of Forest Regeneration and Persistence in Tropical Regions • 7 pm • 5/9/23
Dr. Danielle Whittaker • Using Common Scents: How Songbirds Communicate With Odors • 7 pm • 4/11/23
Dr. Scott V. Edwards • Bicycling, Birding, and #BLM Across America in a Summer of Chaos • 7 pm • 3/14/23
David Parra-Puente • Fundación Jocotoco: 25 Years of Habitat Conservation in Ecuador & the Discovery That Sparked a Movement • 7 pm • 2/14/23
Dr. Meredith VanAcker • Wildlife Movement and Infectious Disease Emergence in Complex Urban Ecosystems • 7 pm • 1/10/23

2022

Dr. Jessica Ware • Insect Evolution, with an Emphasis on Dragonflies • 7 pm • 12/13/22
Roger Pasquier • Birds in Winter: Surviving the Most Challenging Season • 7 pm • 11/8/22
Annie Novak • A Thousand and One Nights: Illuminating Nocturnal Bird Migration • 7 pm • 10/11/22
Dr. Elizabeth Carlen • From the Ground Up: How Urbanization Shapes the Evolution of Squirrels and Pigeons • 7 pm • 9/13/22
Melanie Stiassny, Ph.D. • Evolution in a Vortex: Fish Diversity in the Lower Congo River • 7 pm • 5/10/22
Jonathan Meiburg • Looking for Johnny Rook: Adventures in the World of the Caracaras • 7 pm • 4/12/22
Jennie Duberstein, Ph.D. • Working Across Borders to Conserve Birds and Habitats in the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico • 7 pm • 3/8/22
John Marzluff, Ph.D. • Rendezvous with the Raven: Exploring Connections Among the Trickster, Wolves, and People • 7 pm • 2/8/22
Jason Hill, Ph.D. • Altitudinal and Latitudinal Movement in Montane Birds • 7 pm • 1/11/22

2021

Christian Hagenlocher • A Big Year of Birding on a Budget • 7 pm • 12/14/21
Mark Moffett, Ph.D. • What Are Societies, and What Keeps Them Together and Tears Them Apart? • 7 pm • 11/9/21
Sara Kross, Ph.D. • Winemakers’ Wingmen: How Birds and Farmers Can Help Each Other • 7 pm • 10/12/21
Angelica Menchaca, Ph.D. • How Bats Are Uniting Conservationists in the Global South • 7 pm • 9/14/21
Roland Kays, Ph.D. • Eastern Coyotes: Part Wolf, Part Dog; Extremely Adaptable and Close • 7 pm • 5/11/21
Anne Via McCollough • “Full Circle” • 7 pm • 4/13/21
Peter R. Grant, Ph.D. and B. Rosemary Grant, Ph.D. • Understanding Biodiversity Through Adaptive Radiations • 8 pm • 3/9/21
Jim Wright with special guest Dr. Joseph Wunderle • The Real James Bond • 7 pm • 2/9/21
David Haskell, Ph.D. • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors • 7 pm • 1/12/21

2020

Donald Kroodsma, Ph.D. • Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist • 7 pm • 12/8/20
Matthew Combs, Ph.D. • Rats in the City: Ecological and Conservation Implications of a Global Pest • 7 pm • 11/10/20
Jonathan C. Slaght • The Salmon-eating Owls of Russia • 7 pm • 10/13/20
Paul Sweet • Ornithological Fieldwork in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea • 7 pm • 9/15/20
Stephen W. Kress • Saving Seabirds: New Lessons from Puffins • 8:00 pm • 3/10/20
Joshua Hammer • The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird • 7:30 pm • 2/11/20
Jake LaBelle and Dana Tricarico • The New York Seascape: Promoting Marine Conservation in Our Ocean Backyard • 6:00 pm • 2/11/20
Ardith Bondi • A Tale of Many Penguins: Finding Them, Photographing Them, and Comparing Them • 7:30 pm • 1/14/20
Javier Izquierdo • Improving the Health of Plants by Spying on Conversations Underfoot Between the American Beachgrass and Its Microbiome • 6:00 pm • 1/14/20

2019

Emily DuVal • Dancing Birds, Sexual Selection, and the Evolution of Cooperation in a Tropical Forest • 7:30 pm • 12/10/19
Kathleen Fallon • Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird • 6:00 pm • 12/10/19
Alan Poole • Ospreys 2019: The Revival of a Global Raptor • 7:30 pm • 11/12/19
Jason Gregg • Deadly Skies: The Fight to End Illegal Bird Killing in the Mediterranean • 6:00 pm • 11/12/19
Thomas Gray • Conserving Southeast Asia’s Elusive Rarities • 7:30 pm • 10/8/19
Shawn Billerman • What Hybridization in Birds Can Teach Us About Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Evolution • 6:00 pm • 10/8/19
Bill Logan • The Thousand-year Wood • 7:30 pm • 9/10/20
Jerry Huntley • Rivers and Refugia: Insights into the Avian Diversity of Africa’s Tropical Forests • 6:00 pm • 9/10/19
J. Drew Lanham • The Art of Writing Natural History: Using Birds as Creative Conduits to Conservation • 7:30 pm • 5/14/19
Sara Lewis • Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies • 6:00 pm • 5/14/19
Douglas Futuyma • World Birding: Travels and Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist • 7:30 pm • 4/9/19
Tiffany Grade • On the Trail of a Mystery: The Decline of Loons on Squam Lake, New Hampshire • 6:00 pm • 4/9/19
Peter Pyle • Ecology & Conservation of the Gulf of the Farallones, California • 8 p.m. • 3/12/19
Victoria Johnson • American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, & Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic • 7:30 pm • 2/12/19
Mike Bryant • Diving in the Coral Triangle • 6:00 pm • 2/12/19
Lee Dugatkin • How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) • 7:30 pm • 1/8/19
Rick Wright • Sex, Science, and the Way We Bird Today • 6:00 pm • 1/8/19

2018

Bruce Beehler • North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring • 7:30 pm • 12/11/18
Maggie Howell • Saving a Species: Recovering the World’s Most Endangered Wolves • 6:00 pm • 12/11/18
Carl Safina • Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel • 7:30 pm • 11/13/18
Rick Cech • Understanding New World Butterflies via New Taxonomy • 6:00 pm • 11/13/18
Joan Collins • Current and Projected Effects of Climate Change on Boreal Habitats and Birds of the Adirondacks • 7:30 pm • 10/9/18
Patrick Baglee • A Birding Miscellany • 6:00 pm • 10/9/18
Sean Graesser • Following the Flock: An Account of Three Areas of Central America & the Migrants That Call it Their Winter Home • 7:30 pm • 9/11/18
Sean Sime and Doug Gochfeld • Victory at Sea: Offshore in the Age of Big Data • 6:00 pm • 9/11/18
Peter Marra • Studying Birds in the Context of the Annual Cycle: Carry-over Effects and Seasonal Interactions • 7:30 pm • 5/8/18
Ken Chaya • Wild Green Heart • 6:00 pm • 5/8/18
Alvaro Jaramillo • Birding for Conservation in Colombia • 7:30 pm • 4/10/18
Shaibal Mitra • Citizen Science in the Information Age: Improving the Quality and Usefulness of Crowd-sourced Datasets • 6:00 pm • 4/10/18
Daniel Lane • Dr. John O’Neill – A Modern-Day Explorer • 8 p.m. • 3/13/18
Bryan Watts • Tracking Whimbrels: Movement Toward Full Lifecycle Conservation in a Migratory Shorebird • 7:30 pm • 2/13/18
Anita Sanchez • Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything • 6:00 pm • 2/13/18
Alan Messer • A Birder’s Perspective on Global Warming with Notes on the Conservation of Climate • 7:30 pm • 1/9/18
Jacob Drucker • Understanding and Conserving Hawaii’s Avifauna • 6:00 pm • 1/9/18

2017

George Archibald • My Life with Cranes • 7:30 pm • 12/12/17
Ted Levin • America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake • 6:00 pm • 12/12/17
John Connors • Chimney Swifts and People: Past, Present and Future • 7:30 pm • 11/14/17
Bernd Brunner • Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion for Birds • 6:00 pm • 11/14/17
Tom Stephenson • Why Do Birds Sing? How Do They Learn Their Songs? And How Can Birders Learn Them Too? • 7:30 pm • 10/10/17
Fred Baumgarten • The Artist, the Musician, and the Birds of America • 6:00 pm • 10/10/17
Noah Strycker • Birding Without Borders: An Epic World Big Year • 7:30 pm • 9/12/17
Peter LeTourneau, Ph.D. • Boldest and Most Beautiful: The Traprock Ridgelands of the Connecticut Valley • 6:00 pm • 9/12/17
Richard Hoyer • Polyglottal Passerines: Mimicry Is Not Just for Mockingbirds • 7:30 pm • 5/9/17
James Muchmore • Project: Save the Chocó • 6:00 pm • 5/9/17
Heather Lynch • The Who, How, What, and Where of Life as a Penguin: How Studying Both Captive and Wild Populations of Penguins is Redefining “Normal” • 7:30 pm • 4/11/17
Stephane Perreault • The American Redstart: A Birder’s View • 6:00 pm • 4/11/17
Peter Harrison • Seven Years and Seven Continents • 8:00 pm • 3/14/17
Nathan Pieplow • Seeing sounds: New Ways to Identify Birds by Ear • 7:30 pm • 2/14/17
Ben Mirin • Making Music from the Sounds of Nature • 6:00 pm • 2/14/17
Geoff Wisner • Thoreau’s Wildflowers • 6:00 pm • 1/10/17

2016

Mark Lowery • Sea-level Rise: Causes, Effects, and Solutions • 7:30 pm • 12/13/16
Eric Kaiser • Birds of Wood: An American Art Form • 6:00 pm • 12/13/16
Todd Gardner • Drifters: A Guide to the Stray Tropical Fishes of New York • 7:30 pm • 11/15/16
Rita McMahon • Wildlife Rehabilitation in the Heart of New York City • 6:00 pm • 11/15/16
Andrew Dobson • Bermuda’s Birds: 390 Species in 21 Square Miles • 7:30 pm • 10/11/16
Dr. Edward Eden • Comparative Observations of the Structure and Functions of the Avian and Human Lung • 6:00 pm • 10/11/16
Carlos Sanchez • Following Birds to the Heart of Brazil • 7:30 pm • 9/13/16
Ardith Bondi • Chile, South Georgia, and the Falkland Islands • 6:00 pm • 9/13/16
Thomas Seeley • Collective Intelligence in Bees: How a Swarm Chooses Its Home • 7:30 pm • 5/10/16
Bridget Stutchbury • Frequent Fliers: New Discoveries in Bird Migration • 6:00 pm • 5/10/16
Dorian Anderson • 365 Days, 18,000 Miles, 617 Species, Zero Petroleum • 7:30 pm • 4/12/16
Nocturnal Neighbors: The Bats of New York City • 6:00 pm • 4/12/16
Tim Birkhead • On Being an Ornithologist • 8 pm • 3/8/16
Kevin Karlson and Dale Rosselet • Birding by Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds • 7:30 pm • 2/9/16
J. Alan Clark • Penguins and Climate Change • 6:00 pm • 2/9/16
Ned Brinkley • 21st-Century Birding • 7:30 pm • 1/12/16

2015

Arturo Kirkconnell • The Birds of Cuba • 7:30 pm • 12/8/15
Michael Male • Filmed Birds • 6:00 pm • 12/8/15
Mark Siddall • Leeches and the Origins of Modern Medicine • 7:30 pm • 11/10/15
Chris Guglielmo • Going the Distance: The Physiology of Migration in Birds and Bats • 6:00 pm • 11/10/15
Dale Dyer • Illustrating the Birds of Central America • 7:30 pm • 10/20/15
Daniel Margocsy • Imagining Animals: Natural History and the Creative Arts from Columbus to Darwin • 6:00 pm • 10/20/15
Jean-François Therrien • Snowy Owls: The Ultimate Nomads • 7:30 pm • 9/8/15
Eugene Harris • Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Evolution • 6:00 pm • 9/8/15
Peter Pyle • Discovering and Conserving Bryan’s Shearwater • 7:30 pm • 5/12/15
Russell Burke • Strange Times for Jamaica Bay Terrapins • 6:00 pm • 5/12/15
Richard Primack • Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Concord • 7:30 pm • 4/14/15
Kathleen Lynch • The Role of Signal Detection Error in Mate Choice Plasticity • 6:00 pm • 4/14/15
Kevin J. McGowan • To Know the Crow: Insights and Stories From a Quarter Century of Crow Study • 8:00 pm • 3/10/15
Mark Moffett • Canopy Biology • 7:30 pm • 2/10/15
Paul Guris • Winter Pelagics in the Mid-Atlantic: Putting the “Birrr” in Birding • 7:30 pm • 1/13/15

2014

Mark Hauber • Tracing the Sources of Avian Egg Color Diversity • 7:30 pm • 12/9/14
Regina Alvarez and Daniel Atha • The Botany of Central Park • 6:00 pm • 12/9/14
Dustin Rubenstein • Animal Social Evolution: From Airborne Birds to Underwater Bees • 7:30 pm • 11/18/14
Sandra Paci • Iceland: Land of Fire, Ice, and Birds • 6:00 pm • 11/18/14
Hugh McGuinness • The Moths of Long Island • 7:30 pm • 10/14/14
Andreas Suhrbier • Macquarie Island: Penguins, Seals, and Viruses • 6:00 pm • 10/14/14
Noah Strycker • The Bird World: Insights for Humans from the Lives of Birds • 7:30 pm • 9/9/14
Mike DiGiorgio • A Bird Painter’s Journey • 6:00 pm • 9/9/14
Rick Cech • The History of Natural History: A Naturalist’s Perspective • 7:30 pm • 5/13/14
Amelia Brackett • The Migratory Bird Treaty of 1916 • 6:00 pm • 5/13/14
Julie Zickefoose • The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds • 7:30 pm • 4/8/14
Jeffrey Kimball • Kimball Redux • 6:00 pm • 4/8/14
Sophie Webb • Wildlife of the Eastern and Central Tropical Pacific • 8:00 pm • 3/11/14
Martin Chalfie • GFP: Lighting Up Life • 7:30 pm • 2/11/14
Tom Brown • Wilderness Tracking • 6:00 pm • 2/11/14
Bob Montgomerie • Birds Are More Colorful Than They Look • 7:30 pm • 1/14/14
Paul Sweet • Extraordinary Birds • 6:00 pm • 1/14/14

2013

Douglas Futuyma • Evolution for Birders: A Guide for the Perplexed • 7:30 pm • 12/10/13
Benjamin Van Doren • Morning Flight • 6:00 pm • 12/10/13
Katrina van Grouw • The Unfeathered Bird • 7:30 pm • 11/12/13
Elijah Shiffer • Concert: “Islands in the City” • 6:00 pm • 11/12/13
Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle • The Warbler Guide: The Overlooked ID Points that Make Identifying Warblers Easy • 7:30 pm • 10/8/13
Peter Post • A Talk with Peter Post • 6:00 pm • 10/8/13
Chandler S. Robbins • A Century of Change in American Ornithology • 7:30 pm • 9/10/13
Benjamin Clock • Scientific Collecting in the Digital Age: Recording Expeditions Spanning the Globe for the Acoustic and Visual Archives of the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library • 6:00 pm • 9/10/13
Alvaro Jaramillo • Birding Outside the Box • 7:30 pm • 5/14/13
J. Alan Clark, Rachel Bricklin, Dustin Partridge, Chad Seewagen • City Birds: Avian Life In New York • 7:30 pm • 4/9/13
Barbara Saunders • The Bridge and Skyscraper Crowd: Peregrine Falcons In New York • 6:00 pm • 4/9/13
Kenn Kaufman • The Stealth Parade: Capturing the Secret Spectacle of Bird Migration • 8:00 pm • 3/12/13
Peter Alden • The Ups and Downs of Birds in Thoreau Country • 7:30 pm • 2/12/13
Rick Wright • Hummingbirds of France • 7:30 pm • 1/8/13
Jeffrey Kimball • The Central Park Effect • 6:00 pm • 1/8/13

2012

Mark Moffett • Go To The Ant, Thou Sluggard: Why Ants Are More Like Humans Than You Might Expect• 7:30 pm • 12/11/12
Bob Paxton • A Talk with Bob Paxton • 6:00 pm • 12/11/12
Tim Birkhead • Bird Sense • 7:30 pm • 11/6/12
Andrew Farnsworth • An Acoustic Perspective on Nocturnal Bird Migration • 7:30 pm • 10/9/12
Chris Wood • The eBird Project • 6:00 pm • 10/9/12
Angus Wilson • Seabirds of the Southern Ocean • 7:30 pm • 9/11/12
Mary LeCroy • Side-By-Side Skins • 6:00 pm • 9/11/12

For programs before September of 2012, please refer to the Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New York, on the Society’s Publications page.

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