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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
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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.
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Tim Birkhead Interview
When: Thursday, Feb. 27, 7pm - 9pm
Where: ZOOM link for NSBS Meetings
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81286044266...
Meeting ID: 812 8604 4266
Passcode: 319144
Speaker: Tim Birkhead
This event will be interview format. It will NOT BE RECORDED.
The focus will be on Dr. Birkhead’s book, The Most Perfect Thing: the Inside (and Outside) of a Birds’ Egg (2016)
Tim Birkhead is a Fellow of the Royal Society and emeritus professor of behaviour and evolution at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research on promiscuity and sperm competition in birds re-shaped our understanding of bird mating systems. In addition, Tim has maintained one of the longest running studies of a North Atlantic seabird: the guillemot. Working on the Welsh Island of Skomer since 1972, Tim has studied the behaviour and ecology of this remarkable bird and its extraordinary egg.
Tim has won awards for his teaching and is committed to the public understanding of science. He has written several popular science books, including Promiscuity (2000), The Wisdom of Birds (2008), Bird Sense (2012) The Most Perfect Thing: the Inside (and Outside) of a Birds’ Egg (2016), What it’s Like to be a Bird (2021) and Birds and Us (2022). His children’s book What it’s like to be a Bird (2022) illustrated by Catherine Rayner won the English Association’s Margaret Mallett Award in May 2022. His most recent book — due to be published in March 2025, is: The Great Auk: its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife.
In addition to his role as a researcher and teacher Tim has promoted evolutionary ideas, through talks to the public, and articles in the media, and on television. His TED talk has been viewed over 100,000 times.
Sir David Attenborough referred to Tim’s book The Most Perfect Thing as ‘Magnificent’. In 2018 Sir David and Tim went on to make a BBC documentary: ‘Attenborough’s Wonder of Eggs’.
He is married with three (fledged) offspring and in his spare time paints and plays the guitar.