Follow Up Field Trip
On Tuesday, August 11 at 9AM Soheil will lead a field trip focused on shorebird ID to Winthrop Beach. Learn more.
Webinar: Introduction to the New England Shorebird Guide
For over 50 years, Soheil Zendeh has been monitoring shorebirds populations in Massachusetts and elsewhere. Over the past 35 years there have been drastic drops in most shorebird populations, particularly long distance migratory birds from the Arctic. He is the author of New England Shorebird Guide, a web-based field guide for New England shorebirders focused on helping introductory to medium level observers. His field guide is hosted on the Bird Observer website.
This webinar will discuss data from past years compared to current numbers, and talk about the difficulties of monitoring these birds considering their far-flung trajectories – nesting in the arctic, migrating through coastal and inland wetlands, wintering in Central and South America. It will also discuss the difficulties of keeping up with shorebird plumage changes through the seasons. The goal of this webinar is to help build a constituency for these birds in order to enhance conservation measures for the ones that need help.
About the Presenter
Soheil Zendeh was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up in Tangier, Morocco, before relocating to eastern Massachusetts, where he has been a resident since 1961. Along with his friend Craig Jackson, Soheil founded Friends of Belle Isle Marsh, a grassroots advocacy group for one of the important wetlands in Greater Boston; and Take A Second Look (TASL), a program for monitoring Boston Harbor winter waterbirds from 1980 to 2015. Soheil began creating the online New England Shorebird Guide in 2024 and completed 37 species accounts by early spring of 2026.
New England Shorebird Guide, a photographic guide freely available on the Bird Observer site, now covers 37 species of shorebirds that occur in New England, northeastern United States and eastern Canada. The guide is designed primarily as a visual aid on your smart phone that can be used in the field; it can also be installed on your tablet or computer.
View the Recording
This webinar occurred on July 30. You can view a recording from the Speakers & Webinars webpage
For More Information
For more information contact info@brooklinebirdclub.org.
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