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Field Trips
Field trips are open to non-members as well as members. Feel free to phone or e-mail the field trip leader or contact person ahead of time to obtain further information, directions or restrictions (e.g. dogs are not normally allowed on field trips). Registration is usually required to help manage group sizes and everyone will be asked to sign a waiver.
Ideas and suggestions for future trips are welcome. You do not need to be an expert to lead a field trip, and the trip does not need to last all day. You just need to share your favourite birding spots. Any questions, comments or suggestions, as well as all field trip reports should be directed to the Events Editor, Angie Millard. Email: fieldtripcoordinator@nsbirdsociety.ca
Member Meetings
Regular membership meetings typically feature a guest speaker and normally take place on the fourth Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Meetings are held September, October, January, February, March, April and May. The annual general meeting (AGM) is held in November.
Events Calendar
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Restoring Islands for Seabirds and Other Native Species - Why, where, how and what happens afterwards
When: Thursday, Jan. 23, 7pm - 9pm
Where: ZOOM link for NSBS Meetings
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 812 8604 4266
Passcode: 319144
Speaker: Elizabeth (Biz) Bell, Managing Director, Wildlife Management International
Elizabeth (Biz) Bell from Wildlife Management International Ltd. will be presenting on the process of restoring islands for seabirds starting from the understanding the impacts faced by seabirds on islands, assessing the feasibility of a restoration project, implementation of management actions specifically eradication of invasive species and seabird monitoring and long-term results of this type of project.
Biz will use a number of examples of islands where she has directed restoration projects to protect and enhance seabirds such as Atlantic puffins and Manx shearwaters to answer the why, where, how and what happens questions of restoration.
Bio: Elizabeth (Biz) Bell - Managing Director, Wildlife Management International
Biz is a seabird and island restoration specialist working a range of ecological and conservation projects throughout New Zealand and around the world. As Managing Director of WMIL, Biz directs a team of passionate ecologists completing a variety of seabird and shorebird conservation projects for government and non-government agencies across New Zealand and island restoration projects (eradication of invasive mammalian species) for conservation agencies and governments around the globe.
Biz has undertaken long-term seabird and shorebird research projects over the past 30 years, including a 29-year project on tākoketai/black petrels (Procellaria parkinsoni). Biz is an invasive species eradication and control expert, having eradicated pest species from over a dozen islands around the world, and undertaken and directed long-term predator control operations in New Zealand.
Biz provides technical advice to a number of Predator Free NZ projects across the country, and sees the involvement of communities as vital for the long-term legacy of these, and other, conservation projects.
https://wmil.co.nz