Queens Bird Club to Host Migration Lecture at APEC

The Queens County Bird Club will gather at next week for its monthly meeting, which will include a lecture on peak bird migrations.

The guest speaker will be Andrew Farnsworth, whose fieldwork on flight calls has led him to work in the United States, Mexico, Peru and the Antilles.

He is also studying rapid biological inventories in Cuba and is involved in a recovery project for the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas.

The Alley Pond event, which will begin at 8 p.m. on March 21, will be free and open to the public.

During the discussion, Farnsworth will describe peak migrations for birds in the spring and fall, during which tens of millions of birds could be aloft on any given night.

Two of the methods for studying migration that he will describe are listening to night-time flight calls and interpreting radar imagery.

Attendees at the event will also be able to listen to pre-recorded flight calls and see radar images of bird migrations from across the U.S.

Alley Pond Environmental Center is located at 228-06 Northern Blvd. in Douglaston.

For more information, visit the Queens County Bird Club’s website.