BBC Fall Meeting 11/7 with Amar Ayyash

Join us on Friday, November 7 at 7:00 PM for our hybrid in-person/webinar fall meeting with speaker Amar Ayyash, author of The Gull Guide. This free event is open to ALL!

There will be a social hour with refreshments starting at 6:30. We will have a raffle to give away a copy of the speaker’s book and couple BBC baseball caps.

The meeting will take place at the Geological Lecture Hall at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). Enter at 24 Oxford Street, to the right of the museum entrance. Free parking at Harvard’s 52 Oxford Street Garage starting at 5:30PM.  The garage is entered across from the intersection of Oxford and Everett Streets.

While we hope you will come in persons we will be offering a Zoom option. Register for the Zoom.

About the Talk: Among the world’s “seabirds,” gulls are the most accessible to humans, invading our most immediate surroundings. Gulls are sometimes perceived as second class avian creatures. This, along with the identification challenges they present and their readiness to hybridize, creates a love-hate relationship for many birders. Yet some gull species are among the most coveted birds on any birder’s list (think Ross’s Gull and Ivory Gull). This makes for an interesting juxtaposition. Do we like some gulls and look past others?

Amar Ayyash is both an expert on the gulls of North America and an evangelist for “gull recreation.” He coordinates the IOS Annual Gull Frolic on Lake Michigan, hosts the popular website anythinglarus.com, and he speaks at birding events throughout the continent. Much of his free time is dedicated to traveling the world to photograph and study gulls. Amar is the author of the authoritative guide to North American Gulls, The Gull Guide.

Copies of The Gull Guide will be for sale by the author.

Follow Up Field Trips: The BBC is offering three field trips focused on gull identification:

• • 11/9 at Revere Beach, 8AM

• • 11/15 at Revere Beach, 10AM

• • 12/6 at Winthrop Beach, 7:30AM