Field Trips / Events

Please join the BBC on April 19 for a webinar with Manomet Conservation Sciences staff and collaborators about Tawny-Throated Dotterel Research in Peru. The webinar is scheduled for 7PM. This webinar is open to all and will be presented through Zoom. You may register here (advance registration strongly suggested): https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VZBRPJT_Rl2zNso85ZLoMQ

Please join the BBC on the evening of April 28 from 7PM to 8:30PM for a members-only webinar with Bill Gette entitled Wood-Warblers of New England. Wood-warblers, the Gems of the Forest, are one of the most exciting groups of birds. Living in New England, we are blessed by the many warbler species that move [...]

Please join the BBC on the evening of Tuesday, May 5 from 7PM to 8:30PM for a webinar with Heather Packard from the Massachusetts Audubon Society entitled Rescue Wildlife from Rodenticides. This webinar is open to all. Raptors, coyotes, and other predators balance Massachusetts’ ecosystems. But shocking numbers of these iconic creatures have been sickened [...]

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 [...]

For most people, seabirds are out of sight and out of mind, while seabird populations have dropped a staggering 70 percent globally over the past 60 years due to factors such as invasive species, unsustainable fisheries, and marine trash This talk will reintroduce seabirds, their conservation challenges, and the ways in which they are critical [...]

Most birders experience migration through the birds that arrive, depart, or pass overhead by day -- but throughout the night, another migration is unfolding largely out of sight. This presentation will introduce nocturnal flight calls and the recordists who use them to experience and study that hidden movement. We will draw on examples from the [...]

The book Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders reveals the marvel of how birds work—from the tips of their beaks to the sheen of their tail feathers. Consider feathers: They define birds’ wings, enabling flight. They insulate against cold. They repel water. They even control sound. And how feathers work is just [...]

On November 19 at 7PM please join us to hear from Alvaro Jaramillo, about the discovery of new species of seabirds. Seabirds are some of the most common and widespread species of birds in the world. On the other hand, many of them breed on distant islands, visiting their colonies at night, often in treacherous [...]