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Field List of the Birds of Essex County, MA
Seventh Edition, 2002


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Essex County Ornithological Club Calendar
Winter / Spring 2009


Friday, Jan. 9, 7:45 pm
Members Night
Plus E.C.O.C. book sale, 7:00-7:30 pm
Annual Meeting, 7:30-7:45 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
Breeding Bird Atlas Project
Plus ECOC meeting, 7:30-7:45 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
Painting Penguins: Art and Science in Antarctica
Plus ECOC meeting, 7:30-7:45 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
Spirits of the Air
Plus ECOC meeting, 7:30-7:45 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:

bullet Please support ECOC programs for 2009 and beyond by renewing your membership! Membership runs from October 1 to September 30
 
bullet ECOC president is Sue McGrath: 978-462-4785  newburyportbirders@comcast.net
 
bullet ECOC vice president is Janey Winchell: 978-745-9500 x3127 janey_winchell@pem.org
 
bullet View the “Field List of Birds of Essex County” online at: www.massbird.org/ecoc/ECOCChecklist.htm
 

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