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Join
Space Coast Audubon Society for our November 20th:
The Challenge of Gull Identification
Please
join Space Coast Audubon Society on November 20th at 7:30 p.m. when
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.
Note:
Unless otherwise noted, all general meetings are held at 7:30
p.m. in
Calvin Hall at the Rockledge Presbyterian Church, 921 Rockledge Drive
(on the corner of Orange Ave) Rockledge, FL.
photo credit: Scarlet Ibis and Roseate Spoonbill at Brevard Zoo by Dee
Fairbanks Simpson
