The Montclair Bird Club
Celebrating Over 100 Years of Birding
Welcome to the Montclair Bird Club
To e-attend any of our online events and meetings, write MontclairBirdClub100@gmail.com for a Zoom invitation. Invitations are issued by e-mail the day before each event.
What got you started as a birder? Share your story here!
Read the latest issue of The Broadwing.
Declining Shorebird Numbers
and What We Can Do About It
a lecture by Soheil Zendeh
7:30 pm on Zoom
A worldwide crash in shorebird counts has been documented since the 1980s, particularly in eastern North America. We will discuss the situation and dive into some of the evidence for these declines. Then we turn to the need for action, which includes the need to familiarize ourselves with local shorebird species. We can then use the information gathered by us as individuals and bird clubs to influence local, state, and national policies that affect shorebird conservation.
Soheil Zendeh has created a shorebird identification phone app, covering the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. It is visual, using photos, both Soheil's and those of many generous contributors. The app is available for free on the Bird Observer website, birdobserver.org/Better-Birding/New-England-Shorebird-Guide. We will explore the new app's features, getting you familiar with it so it will be useful when shorebirds return in the next few months.
If you would like to explore some of the issues in advance, here is an article by some of the foremost shorebird researchers in the world:
academic.oup.com/condor/article/125/2/duad003/7031074
Soheil Zendeh was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran, and Tangier, Morocco. He has been a resident of eastern Massachusetts for over 60 years. His interest in shorebirds began in the 1970s; he began to contribute Boston-area shorebird data to Manomet's International Shorebird Surveys (ISS) in 1976. Currently he lives with his wife, Christine, in a co-housing complex in Littleton, Massachusetts.
Everyone is welcome at all of our events, trips, and meetings. For a Zoom invitation to this lecture, write montclairbirdclub1920@gmail.com.
Join Fred Pfeifer each Wednesday morning at 8:00 for a walk around Garret Mountain Reservation or another nearby park to enjoy the avian treasures of the season. Text or call Fred at 973 809-7674 to register and to find out the meeting location.
Cape Ann, Massachusetts
February 19–21, 2025
with Donna Traylor
The Montclair Bird Club will be visiting Cape Ann in Massachusetts again this year. This 3-day outing takes us to Amesbury, Gloucester, Rockport, Plum Island, Bass Rocks, and more. It’s a cold and windy trip that often turns up some very interesting birds: white-winged gulls, alcids, scoters and other ducks, both loons, or snowy and short-eared owls. Write montclairbirdclub1920@gmail.com for details and registration.
Custom Bird Guides series
by Rick Wright and Sandy Sorkin.
Watching Birds in the Meadowlands and Watching Birds in Montclair are now available at Watchung Booksellers and at Wild Birds Unlimited, Paramus!