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**The December Nature
Moncton meeting on shorebirds will take place this coming Tuesday evening
at 7 o’clock virtually. All details in the write up at the end of this edition.
** Simonne Poirier has been having
a female Northern Cardinal come to
her Memramcook birdfeeder every day for the past week and again on Saturday.
One would wonder if this could possibly be offspring from the successful
nesting at Yolande LeBlanc’s Memramcook site.
**Phil Riebel from Miramichi shares some of his best photos of 2021 and they are indeed photographic eye candy.
Enjoy Phil’s line up in today’s photo
gallery.
**Aldo Dorio photographed and immature Bald Eagle on the ice at
Hay Island. It appears to be wondering why it has to be raining on December 11.
**The write up for the Tuesday night Nature Moncton meeting on
shorebirds is attached below:
Nature
Moncton December meeting
December 14,
2021. 7:00 PM
Shorebird
Investigations: Past, Present, and Future
Presenters:
Diana Hamilton and Julie Paquet
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82543051296?pwd=c1R2QzBjOXNtVzhmZ3BuVVJZdVJLdz09
It’s
December, but shorebirds – and all the joy they gave us in late summer and fall
-- are still fresh in our minds.
While we as
naturalists watch the amazing shorebird migration on our doorsteps, some
dedicated observers are out there seriously studying and monitoring shorebird
migration. In fact, many of us have probably taken note of – and photographed –
tagged shorebirds at sites such as Petit-cap, not knowing the work and study
that is behind all the tagged birds.
The December
Nature Moncton meeting will present a tag team duo featuring two of the best: Diana Hamilton and Julie Paquet. Julie is the Atlantic Region Shorebird Biologist for the Canadian
Wildlife Service. Diana is a professor and the current head of the Biology
Department at Mount Allison University.
Their
presentation will include an introduction to migratory shorebird use of the
region, a summary of the past work they have done, discussion of current
questions being addressed and their plans for the immediate future. Finally,
they will comment on their big scale goals and the many ways their work is
relevant to conservation in the region.
As
naturalists, we don’t usually get a real look at what is going on behind the
scenes.
Diana and
Julie will have a lot of information of great interest to share.
A don’t
miss presentation!
The zoom link
open to anyone anywhere will be:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82543051296?pwd=c1R2QzBjOXNtVzhmZ3BuVVJZdVJLdz09
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