Previous Meetings

Robin Duska will present “The Smithsonian’s Bird Collection.” She will highlight some of the vast collection’s contents and describe how bird specimens contribute to science. She’ll also profile some of the colorful personalities who collected specimens, many during challenging expeditions. Robin has been volunteering at the National Museum of Natural History since 2009 and assisting…

Paul Napier will present “The Cape May Raptor Banding Project” which will cover a brief history, some impressive Project statistics, an overview of the intern program, how the Project contributes to science projects, and portraits and facts about the raptors banded. There will be lots of great close-up photographs.Paul Napier has been banding raptors since…

In March 2025, long time birders, Lucy and Suleyman Uncu, took their first exclusively “birding trip” with Tropical Birding to the Ecuadorian Andes. Although they had birded for many years both in the US and while living and traveling abroad, overseas adventures had never been specifically focused on birds. This trip was a revelation. For…

Bill and Fran Millhouser have enjoyed birdwatching since the mid 1970s when they took a Smithsonian course on birds and local birdwatching. Bill is also an avid bird photographer, and their trips overseas have often combined birdwatching and photography. Over the years they have visited Costa Rica (multiple times), Ecuador, Patagonia, Kenya, Tanzania and South…

Previous meetings Exploring the Birds of Chile, Speaker: Dixie Summers.        Dixie Sommers joined a WINGS Birding Tours trip to Chile in November 2023. The tour ranged from the far south and sea level Tierra del Fuego to the far north and high altitude Atacama Desert. The group counted 258 species ranging from…