Chapel Hill Bird Club Meeting (in person and by Zoom) — 22 April 2024
Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal—The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
The Chapel Hill Bird Club is holding its monthly meeting on Monday, April 22, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. This meeting will be in-person with a zoom option available. Come at 7:15 for refreshments. Location is the lounge in Olin T. Binkley Baptist Church, corner of Highway 15-501 Bypass and Willow Drive, behind University Mall. Address: 1712 Willow Drive, Chapel Hill, NC.
Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal will walk through highlights of their book, A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds. This is the story of what's being done to save birds in the midst of dramatic downturns in North American populations. Their presentation draws on their 25,000 miles of travel across the hemisphere researching the book, interviews with 300 people in every station in the world of birds, and scores of photos of the birds featured in these pages.
Anders and Beverly are veteran journalists who've worked for decades as reporters and editors. Beverly was a feature writer, then food editor, and finally syndicated columnist and cookbook author. Anders was an investigative reporter at The Miami Herald, then went on to lead newsrooms in Raleigh, Minneapolis, Miami and Washington. He's long been active in journalism circles, serving on the board of the Pulitzer Prizes, Society of Newspaper Editors and Journalism Funding Partners. As their work slowed down, they started following birds and photographing and writing about them for magazines and newspapers around the country. They also publish a photo-rich website, FlyingLessons.US: What We're Learning from the Birds.
Register in advance for this meeting:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.