66th Annual MAS Banquet
RESERVATIONS ARE CLOSED
Francis Meeting Room 5802 E.Lincoln Drive Scottsdale AZ 85253
6:00 pm BYOB social hour, raffle, and silent auction. Come early to meet old friends and new, and to peruse the auction and raffle tables. Raffle tickets available at the door.
7:00 pm Buffet Dinner (includes vegan option).
Cost: $30.00 per person. Reservations required. Deadline to register April 15th. No-shows will be billed. You may pay at the door (cash or check) or mail checks payable to Maricopa Audubon Society to MAS Banquet, c/o Vicki Hire, PO Box 603, Chandler, AZ 85244. Our agenda will include induction of our new Board and presentation of the 14th Annual Herb Fibel Award for Distinguished Service to Maricopa Audubon Society. Reserve online here.
Our Program
Between 2019 and 2022, Beehler completed five field trips in search of Hudsonian Godwits. Beehler visited stop-over sites through the Great Plains; visited breeding habitat in western Alaska, Churchill, Manitoba, and the High Arctic of western Canada; and did field surveys at a famous autumn staging site in James Bay. In all, Beehler traveled solo by car more than 30,000 miles, encountering Hudsonian Godwits in ten states and provinces. He also spent time with Marbled and Bar-tailed Godwits, and 33 additional shorebird species. Beehler accompanied various fieldworkers studying godwits and other species in remote and iconic field sites. Beehler will recount the highlights of his more than five months in the field, from Nome and Point Barrow to Tuktoyaktuk, Moosonee, and Monomoy Island.
Our Featured Speaker
Bruce Beehler is an ornithologist, conservationist, and naturalist. He received his PhD from Princeton studying the behavioral ecology of the birds-of-paradise of Papua New Guinea.
Beehler has spent much of his scientific career studying and conserving birds and their forest habitats. He has published seventeen books and monographs and authored scores of technical and popular articles about birds and nature including The Birds of Paradise (1998), The Birds of New Guinea (1986, 2015) and the two-volume Ecology of Papua (2007). He is a Research Associate, Bird Division, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and a Scientific Affiliate of the American Bird Conservancy. Today Beehler carries out natural history studies and writing focused on wildlife and natural places in North America.