Hi everyone,

Just a reminder (and a request!) about Neil Hayward speaking tonight in
Columbus about his record breaking ABA Big Year last year. Plus, we'll kick
things off with a short program by Ohio's very own Dan Sanders (715 species
in 2005) and Jay Lehman (733 species in 2013) about their Big Year efforts.

Details are at
http://www.columbusaudubon.org/index.php/14-announcements/announcements/1308-upcoming-program-tuesday-september-23

I'll be moderating some Q&A sessions, and whether or not you can join us, *I'd
love to ask them some questions from all of you!*

Feel free to email our questions to me at this address, or for those of you
in the Birding Ohio facebook group, comment on this post
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/BirdingOhio/permalink/693779540712546/>.

Good birding,
-Paul Hurtado


On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Darlene Sillick <
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> Have you ever wanted to know how to keep lists or how to plan a Big Year?
> Tuesday, September 23rd, you can learn what birders are thinking about as
> they go in quest of becoming an elite member of the over 700 ABA club and a
> possible ABA Big Year record.
>
>
>
> Columbus Audubon and Grange Insurance Audubon Club Members and guests are
> welcome to join us next Tuesday evening. We hope to see you before 7pm for
> a
> fun evening filled with lots of activities and social time for birders and
> nature lovers.
>
>
>
>
>
> In 2013 Boston birder Neil Hayward suffered a devastating bout of the Big
> Year. The temporary insanity resulted in almost 250,000 miles of travel,
> taking him to the remote corners of this continent: Barrow in the frozen
> north; the Dry Tortugas, dangling off the Florida Keys to the south;
> Newfoundland, poking out to the east; and tiny Adak, adrift in the volcanic
> Aleutian chain of the west. And a place they call New Jersey. By year's
> end,
> he'd netted some 750 species of bird and quite possibly set a new ABA Big
> Year record. Please join us as Neil takes a Big Year, applies cutting-edge
> high pressure technology, and condenses it into a Big Hour! You will hear
> about exotic birds, remote places, volcanoes, polar bears, Aleutian
> plumbing
> and more! Government health warning: Big Years can be contagious. High
> pressure technology not previously tested.
>
> Neil Hayward grew up near Oxford, England, where, at a young age, he first
> became obsessed with birds. After a PhD in genetics at Cambridge University
> he moved (permanently) to the US in 2005 to head up the US operations of
> the
> biotechnology company Abcam. He left in 2011 to pursue a consulting career
> as owner of Cambridge Blue Consulting. Neil is currently the Field Trip
> Coordinator and a director of the Brookline Bird Club. He lives in
> Cambridge
> with his girlfriend Gerri and two cats, Sally and Khiva.
>
> 7:00 - 7:15 pm: Our very own Big Year birders, Dan Sanders (715 species in
> 2005) and Jay Lehman (733 species in 2013), will answer questions about
> their Big Year experience. Prepare to be amazed...!  Paul Hurtado will
> facilitate the Q and A during the short program.
>
> 7:15 - 7:30 pm: social time, light refreshments, test your birding skills
> at
> the Bird Quiz table and a chance to win a prize, meet the OYBC students
> preparing for their Oct 4 Big Sit at Sawmill Wetlands from 8-12.  Plan to
> buy your tickets for the Nov 1 George Archibald, My Life with Cranes
> program
> held 4-6pm at GIAC.  Visit friends at GIAC for the Columbus Audubon monthly
> program. Be sure to sign in and get your ticket for one of 2 door prizes.
> Lots more is going on!!!
>
> 7:30 pm: Main program: Columbus Audubon announcements and our speaker Neil
> Hayward who holds the ABA Big Year record for 750 species in 2013
>
> Columbus Audubon programs are free and open to the public. All programs are
> held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center 505 West Whittier Street in the
> Scioto-Audubon Metro Park on the Whittier Peninsula. There is a fee for our
> special Saturday Nov 1 program with George Archibald and tickets can be
> purchased on our website www.columbusaudubon.org  after the Sept 23
> meeting.
>
>
>
>
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--
Paul J. Hurtado
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University
Mathematical Biosciences Institute, http://mbi.osu.edu/
Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, http://ael.osu.edu/

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