Birding & Bagels Bonanza
Pack your bins! Dust off your 'nocs! 🐦⬛🕵️
Planeteer & Superorganism encourage the bird-curious to come peep some pigeons (and hopefully more exciting specimens!) with us on Wednesday morning of New York Climate Week.
This social gathering of birding enthusiasts will be led by a special guest ornithologist, and will start with a bagel and caw-fee breakfast.
With fall migration in flight, we're told to expect to see warblers, sparrows, vireos, and a dozen species of raptors... egg-citing!
Lest our hawk-ward puns not yet give us away, novice birders are most welcome for this very New York experience. If you're a pro and have hardware, please bring any and all bird spotting paraphernalia to share.
About your birders:
Ken Chaya is an artist and urban naturalist based in New York City. He is the designer of Central Park Entire, the illustrated tree map and app documenting the park’s magnificent landscape and nearly twenty thousand individual trees. Ken currently teaches nature courses at the New York Botanical Garden, where he assisted in the creation of the Urban Naturalist Certificate degree program. Throughout the year he leads nature walks throughout NYC under the auspices of various organizations and provides lectures to various institutions. He is an active birder and a section leader for the annual Central Park Christmas Bird Count.
With over two decades of conservation fundraising experience in strategic partnerships with leading philanthropists, foundations and corporations, E.J. McAdams serves as Chief Development Officer for BirdLife International, the world’s largest conservation partnership.
Carine Mitchell has been a birder and environmentalist in NYC for over 20 years. She has served as a volunteer researcher for the Great Gull Island project conducted by the American Museum of Natural History, where she has also served as a docent in the butterfly exhibit, and has led dozens of Central Park bird walks in fall and spring as a volunteer with the Wild Bird Fund.
David Jeffrey Ringer is a communications strategist, writer, and naturalist, and he is an expert on birds and birding. He is a co-founder of the advisory firm Green Jay Strategies, where he is deeply interested in helping people find common ground to advance important causes, including the environment and civil rights. Before co-founding his firm, he served as chief network and communications officer at National Audubon Society. He serves on the board of the Neotropical Grassland Conservancy and as board chair emeritus of The Bushwick Starr, an Obie Award-winning theater in Brooklyn.
Kellye Rosenheim leads birdwalks in New York City and works to save our planet's wildlife at BirdLife International. She is the co-author, with Deborah Rivel, of Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island (University Press of New England, 2016).