The Naturalists' Club of Broome County, NY

Marie Read, professional nature photographer, will discuss the Birds of Mono Lake California and show photos from her collection.  Widely published, Marie specializes in images of birds and bird behavior. Meetings are open to the public.  The talk will include a question & answer session and light refreshments.

Our December Member Meeting is cancelled due to the current Winter Storm Warning. If you are a member who was planning on showing photos tonight, please email us at bcnatclub@gmail.com with one or two photos and we'll post them here on our Facebook page and credit you so we can all still share in the fun. Please include a short caption and where the photo was taken.

Whitebark pine and Clark’s Nutcrackers have a fascinating relationship: the trees provide rich, fatty seeds, and the birds “plant” the trees’ seeds —a single bird may hide up to 98,000 seeds in a year. The food caches help the birds get through the winter, and the leftovers grow into new trees. In fact, whitebark pine trees sprout almost exclusively from nutcracker seed caches. This dependency has led to considerable concern for both species because whitebark pine ecosystems are rapidly disappearing…

Dylan Horvath will discuss the Caspian Terns of Oregon. He will share stories about his experience in Caspian Tern research in the Columbia River Estuary in the Northwest (Oregon/Washington).  Dylan lived on East Sand Island for 4 months monitoring and guarding the largest Caspian Tern colony on the west coast.  Other wildlife antics on the island were often just as interesting as the terns themselves! Dylan Horvath is the Steward of Natural Areas of Binghamton University and a Wildlife Biologist.  He not…