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Field List of the Birds of Essex County, MA
Jim Berry's Become a member of the Essex County Ornithological Club or renew a current membership.
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Essex County Ornithological Club Calendar
Friday, Jan. 9, 7:45 pm Join fellow ECOC members and friends for this annual “show and tell” night. Presentations will include slides, video, readings, and more. Contact Sue McGrath (see contact info. below) if you would like to present something at this fun event. Help support ECOC and clear out your extra bird references by participating in the 6th annual book sale. All books sell for $1, unless otherwise stated. Proceeds to benefit the Club. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by the Peabody Essex Museum. Phillips Library Auditorium, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. Free and open to the public. Directions... Friday, Feb. 6, 7:45 pm Learn the results of the first two field seasons of the second Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas Project from former ECOC president Jim Berry, coordinator of atlas field work in Essex County. Jim will show, via online data and species maps, some startling changes in breeding distribution from the first atlas project conducted in the 1970s. The talk will be supplemented with images of the species of greatest interest. Co-sponsored by the Peabody Essex Museum. Phillips Library Auditorium, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. Free and open to the public. Directions... Friday, March 6, 7:45 pm Artist-naturalist Lucia deLeiris presents her captivating field sketches and paintings of penguins and other wildlife while sharing stories of her experiences in Antarctica over 20 years, including three long term residencies as an Artist and Writers Program Grant recipient from the National Science Foundation. Lucia, a featured artist in the Polar Attractions exhibition and the illustrator for four books on Antarctica, also speaks about the changes she has observed in penguin populations since her first trip to the continent in 1985. Co-sponsored by the Peabody Essex Museum. Phillips Auditorium, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. Free and open to the public. Directions... Friday, April 24, 7:45 pm Shepard Krech III, PhD, a renowned authority on Native American connections with nature, speaks on his newly released book Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South, which examines the dynamic relationship between birds and Native American art and life over time. Shep, a professor of anthropology and director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University, is also the author of the critically acclaimed book The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. Book signing follows. Co-sponsored by the Peabody Essex Museum. Morse Auditorium at Peabody Essex Museum, (use main museum entrance at junction of Essex and Liberty), Salem, MA. Free and open to the public. Directions... Notes:
Directions to the Phillips Library The Phillips Library is diagonally across the street from the main museum entrance (which is at the corner of Essex and Liberty St. in downtown Salem). Note: if severe weather if forecasted, please call 978-745-1876 in advance to confirm that the ECOC event is still on. Map of the area with "To & From" directions provided by Google |
