Join us for our annual Harvest Dinner. Our program will be presented by Bill Evans whose topic will be: THE EARLY EFFORTS TO MINIMIZE BIRD MORTALITY AT TALL COMMUNICATIONS TOWERS – STORIES FROM BROOME COUNTY.

Beginning in the 1950s, large bird kills were regularly documented at tall TV towers across North America. The United State Fish & Wildlife Service estimated that millions of songbirds were being killed annually. In 1997, with the threat on the horizon of 1000 new tall TV towers to be built for digital television infrastructure, an effort arose to mitigate the kills. Bill Evans will present his recollections of those earlier years, including stories involving Broome County.

Bill Evans is director of Old Bird Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on nocturnal bird migration research & education. For the past 30 years Bill has studied the vocalizations birds give while in nocturnal migration. His expertise on nocturnal bird migration led him into active involvement with efforts to mitigate avian fatalities at communications towers, wind turbines, and oil & gas drilling rigs. His current research is directed toward developing a new index for songbird populations and understanding the impacts of artificial light on night-migrating birds. Bill’s research has been featured on PBS, BBC, NPR and in Science, The New York Times and numerous science-news periodicals. Bill lives with his wife and two children in the Town of Danby, NY.

Potluck Dinner
Your food contributions should contain 8 to10 servings for each 2 people in your party. Please bring the prepared hot and cold dishes wrapped to place on the serving tables. The club will provide rolls, margarine, and beverages. BRING YOUR OWN TABLE SERVICE, NAPKINS AND SERVING UTENSILS.

Harvest Table
Please bring the products of our harvest to sell at our October dinner. Suggested items are baked goods, jams and jellies and garden produce. Please mark a suggested price on your donation. Income from the Harvest Table helps the club make charitable contributions to other local natures organizations.