Join Space Coast Audubon Society for our
November 20th Meeting
“The Challenge of Gull
Identification”
WHO: Space Coast Audubon
Society (SCAS)
WHERE: Rockledge
Presbyterian Church, 921 Rockledge Dr, Rockledge, FL.
WHEN: November 20, 2015
at 7:30 pm
Michael Brothers will be our speaker
and will be presenting The Challenge of
Gull Identification
Michael has been the
director of the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet, Florida for the last 11
years. He has over 30 years of
experience in museum administration in city, county, state, and private
non-profit museums. He has extensive
natural science experience including specializations in the bird life and flora
of Florida, as well as leading natural history tours throughout Florida. He regularly leads pelagic birding
expeditions off of Florida and Georgia. He is currently a member of the Florida
Ornithological Society Records Committee, which evaluates reports of birds
recorded in the wild in Florida and is responsible for updating the scientific record
of Florida’s bird life. Michael is also
a regional editor of the journal “North American Birds.” He is currently
conducting a banding project on Lesser Black-backed Gulls in Volusia County in
hopes of determining the breeding location of the Lesser Black-backed Gulls in
North America.
All of Florida is great for watching
gulls. This program will present the
various gulls that occur in
Florida and try to de-mystify these sometimes confusing birds. One of Florida’s greatest avian spectacles takes place each winter on the beach at Daytona Beach Shores, where over 30,000 -50,000 gulls gather each evening along several miles of beach. Not only are the numbers of gulls mind-boggling, but there is no better place in North America to see so many gulls up close and study all of the various age-classes and seasonal differences. In addition, he leads the Gull Fly-In at Daytona Shores field trip at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.
Florida and try to de-mystify these sometimes confusing birds. One of Florida’s greatest avian spectacles takes place each winter on the beach at Daytona Beach Shores, where over 30,000 -50,000 gulls gather each evening along several miles of beach. Not only are the numbers of gulls mind-boggling, but there is no better place in North America to see so many gulls up close and study all of the various age-classes and seasonal differences. In addition, he leads the Gull Fly-In at Daytona Shores field trip at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.
Visit the Space Coast Audubon Society
website at www.spacecoastaudubon.org and check out the Space
Coast Audubon Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/Space-Coast-Audubon.
We look forward to another great
turnout.
Jim Eager
Space Coast Audubon Society
Vice President
Program/Publicity Chair
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