Meetings Archive

2024 MeetingsTop

December

TOC Members

"TOC Members' Night Bird Photography Show"

November

Patricia Homonylo, Conservation Photojournalist, Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year and creator of the award-winning film "When Worlds Collide"

"From Photographer to Conservation Photographer, What’s YOUR story?"

October

Maxwell Matchim, Filmmaker, Naturalist and Chair of the EDI Committee at the Ontario Field Ornithologists

"The Sexual Diversity of Birds"

September

Gwendolyn Clark, Aerial Insectivore Field Biologist from Birds Canada

"Operation Chimney Swift - Saving Toronto's Urban Acrobats"

June

John W. Sabean, PhD, OMC, a cultural historian with interests in natural history

"Charles Fothergill: A Recreation of a Lecture Given by James L. Baillie, Jr. in 1948 with Additional Commentary and Images by John W. Sabean"

May

Mark Peck, Nancy Barrett & Livia Antony

"Spring Migration Quiz - Learn how to identify spring migrants and resident birds of the Toronto region through this fun and interactive migration quiz journey."

April

Jean Iron - TOC member

"Northbound Shorebird Migration in Toronto"

March

Steve Burrows - Author of the best-selling Birder Murder Mystery Series

"From Birder to Birder Murder: The Mystery Deepens"

February

Anya Auerbach - Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota

"Virtual Presentation - Understanding evolution through Madagascar's spectacular radiations of birds"

January

Shae Turner - Master of Science student at Thompson Rivers University and Registered Professional Biologist in the province of British Columbia

"Virtual Presentation - Canadian research in Jamaica: Understanding the winter lives of our migratory warblers through bird banding and the Motus Wildlife Tracking System"

2023 MeetingsTop

December

John Carley, Justin Peter and Julia Zarankin

"Members’ Night - In person at the High Park Nature Centre: John Carley - Birding the Grasslands and Cypress Hills; Justin Peter - Birds of South Georgia; Julia Zarankin - Birding in Kachemak Bay, Alaska "

November

Dr. Erica Nol. Professor, Trent University and OFO's Ornithologist of the Year.

"Avian movement ecology: the new frontier. Please note this is an in-person meeting!"

October

Robert Bell, Author

"Out of the Lyme Light and into the Sunlight"

September

Chris Earley - Interpretive Biologist and Education Coordinator, The Arboretum, University of Guelph

"From the Pantanal to Penguins: Southern Birding at its Best!"

June

Rebecca Heisman - Author

""Virtual meeting" - Flight Paths - How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration"

May

Bill Read - President, Ontario Eastern Bluebird Society

"Bluebirds and Apple Orchards"

April

Brendon Samuels - PhD candidate in the Department of Biology at Western University

"Helping Birds Through Community Science"

March

Brett Forsyth

"My Big Green Year"

February

Paula and Michael Webster

"Virtual Presentation - The Condor's Feather-Travelling Wild in South America"

January

Wayne Humphries - Masters in Environmental Science, York University

"Virtual Presentation - The Importance of Public Engagement in Conservation Management - The Murre / Turr Hunt in Bonavista Bay, NL - A Case Study."

2022 MeetingsTop

December

TOC Members Night

"Music and Birds - Susan Spier, Altiplano Birding in Chile - John Carley, Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 update - Mark Peck "

November

Jean Iron - our very own TOC member

"The Nature of Arctic Birds"

October
17 October, 2022 - note date

Rob Porter, Director at Large, Hamilton Naturalist Club and Host of the Songbirding podcast.

"In person - The Wide World of Birding. A look under the hood at the new Merlin app, Eastern Bluebird trails and discoveries from Hamilton's Christmas Bird Count data."

September

Merilyn Simonds

"Louise de Kiriline Lawrence - The Making of an Amateur Ornithologist"

June

Ellen Schwartzel, President of the Toronto Field Naturalists, Ontario's Deputy Environmental Commissioner (retired 2018)

"Adding Nature to Toronto's Urban Fabric"

May

Dr. Madhur Anand, Director Guelph Institute for Environmental Research

"Parasitic Oscillations. A stunning new collection of poems that examine various aspects of living and practicing as both a poet and scientist in the Anthropocene during a time of unravelling."

April

Dr. Daniel Klem - Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology in the Department of Biology at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania

"Solid Air - Invisible Killer: Saving Billions of Birds from Windows"

March

Erik Wing

""Birds on the brain: exploring the cognitive neuroscience of birding.""

February

Michael Runtz, Naturalist, Author and Storyteller

"Algonquin Wild - new date, please be aware."

January

Tyler Hoar, Freelance Ornithologist/Consultant and Winter Finch Forecaster

"The Hoar Winter Finch Forecast"

2021 MeetingsTop

December

Emily Rondel, President TOC

"The TOC Holiday Workshop - Virtual"

November

Kaelyn Bumelis, Birds Canada

"Aerial Insectivore Conservation"

October

Gregor Beck, Kevin Kavanagh, Natasha Barlow - Birds Canada

"Toronto’s Hidden Conservation Opportunity - Gardening for Birds"

September

Bridget Butler - Bird Diva

"The Her-Story of Birding"

June

Dr. Allie Anderson, Post Doctoral Fellow with Birds Canada and Trent University

"Shorebird stopover and migration ecology along the southwestern coast of James Bay"

May

Melina Damian, Professor of Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development, International Development Program, Centennial College

" “Latest Research on Cormorants and Anthropogenic Debris They Bring to their Nests.”"

April

Jon Pleizier, SNC Lavalin and Charlie Hess, Tropical Birding

"An Introduction to Birding in Ecuador: How Ecotourism Promotes Conservation"

March

Alex Israel - MSc Student, York University

"Can nest concealment in Wood Thrushes predict nest success?"

February

Jonathan Slaght - Wildlife Biologist and author

"Owls of the Eastern Ice - New York Times Notable Book 2020,A talk on the Blakiston’s Fish Owl in eastern Russia"

January

Amanda Guercio, Emily Rondel, Mark Peck -TOC

"The 3rd Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas. Yay!!"

2020 MeetingsTop

December

Jean Iron - Toronto Ornithological Club

"Are there penguins in the Arctic? To answer this question, we will explore the connection between modern penguins and the family of seabirds called Auks.This presentation will take us north, south, and back in time."

November

Talia Lowi-Merri, University of Toronto and Royal Ontario Museum

"The Avian Sternum and the Origin of Flight the evolution of flight in bird-like dinosaurs, and the functional significance of the avian skeleton."

October

Dr. Julia Zarankin

"Fieldnotes from an Unintentional Birder"

September

George Prieksaitis

"50th Anniversary of the Hawk Cliff Raptor Banders"

June

Ashley Bramwell, U of T Scarborough

"Shades of greenish-grey: Revealing the evolutionary history of Willow and Alder flycatchers"

May

Sonya Richmond and Sean Morton

"Come Walk With Us On The Great Trail - Virtual meeting. Very exciting! Additional information shortly."

April

TBA

"Cancelled due to Corvid Oubreak. Crows Jays and Ravens everywhere! Good birding. Stay safe."

March

Dr. Allie Anderson, Trent University

"Shorebird stopover and migration ecology along the southwestern coast of James Bay"

February

Peter Burke - Artist and Senior Ecologist, Savanta.

"Kirtland's Warblers in Ontario: Past and Future Considerations."

January

Robert Spaul

"Golden Eagles: Migration monitoring in the Yukon"

2019 MeetingsTop

December

Mark Peck, Ian Maione, Jack Alvo, Glenn and Susan Barry

"Member's Night Jack Farley and Mark Peck-Toronto Birding: The Year in Review, Ian Maione-A Red-tailed Hawk in the Park, Jack Alvo-Costa Rica: 9 days in Birding Paradise, Susan and Glenn Barry-Birding in Panama "

November

Mark Peck - Royal Ontario Museum

"Change due to snowstorm/ The Art and Ethics of Wildlife Photography"

October

Maryam Astaneh

"Birdwatchers - A documentary by Maryam Astaneh featuring members of the TOC"

September

Charlotte Chaffey, ROM Archivist

"The Art and Legacy of Terry Shortt at the Royal Ontario Museum"

June

Taylor Brown - York University

""Risky business: Effects of human settlement on predation risk and nest survival of sub-arctic nesting shorebirds""

May

Mike Burell, Ontario birder and really good guy.

"The Best Places to Bird in Ontario"

April

Dr. Alex Mills, Professor, York University

"Working with Whip-poor-wills"

March

Stuart MacKenzie, Bird Studies Canada

"Wingtips at our Fingertips: Understanding the complex lives of migratory animals"

February

Andrea Chreston, Project Manager, Tommy Thompson Park

"Tommy Thompson Park - additional information coming"

January

Jean Iron, Garth Riley, Nancy McPherson and Barb Charlton

"eBirding British Columbia"

2018 MeetingsTop

December

John Carley, Carole Giagrande and Brian Gibson

"Member's Night -- Refugia: Birding in New Zealand - John Carley, Seabirds of the Gaspe Penninsula - Carole Giagrande and Brian Gibson"

November

Hannah Shinton and Haya Aldoori. Environmental Visual Communications, ROM/Fleming College

"The Moose Cree and the James Bay Shorebird Surveys"

October

Andrea Gress - Ontario Piping Plover Conservation Program Coordinator, Bird Studies Canada

"Piping Plover Conservation in Ontario-the strategies, challenges, and what the future holds"

September

Ian Maione, Tim McCarthy and WILD ONTARIO

"High Park Hawkwatch - Join Ian and Tim to learn more about Broad-winged Hawks and the value of the Hawkwatch. SPECIAL GUESTS - Wild Ontario and 4 live raptors starting at 7:00"

June

Kristyn Ferguson, NCC

"The Nature Conservancy of Canada in the Carden Alvar and Beyond"

May

Stacey Lee Kerr - Bird Studies Canada and Royal Ontario Museum

""Celebrating GTA Biodiversity with BioBlitzes and the Toronto Bird Festival""

April

Jeremy Bensette - Point Pelee area birder and naturalist

"Breaking Birding Boundaries: My 2017 Ontario Big Year "

March

Jacqueline L. Scott is a Ph.D. student in Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto

"Birding while Black: Race in the Canadian Outdoors"

February

Dr. Gail Fraser - York University

"Double-crested Cormorants at Tommy Thompson Park"

January

Jean Iron

"Gulls and Shorebirds - Ashbridges Bay Flood. The flooding of Woodbine Beach in 2017 produced the finest shorebird and gull watching in Toronto in many years. "

2017 MeetingsTop

December

Justin Peter, John Crawford, Eric Baldo, Ian Maione.

"Justin Peter-"Birds of Gambia", John Crawford-"In search of Galapagos Finches", Eric Baldo-"A Birder's Guide to Becoming An Environmentalist" , Ian Maione-Hawkwatching. Book Sale-hosted by our very own Jim and Petra Grass."

November

Dr. Santiago Claramunt - Associate Curator, Ornithology, Royal Ontario Museum.

""Origin and evolution of modern birds""

October

Soren Bondrup-Nielsen

"Pukaskwa - A Naturalist's Year Surveying Birds in the Lake Superior Wilderness, 1976-1977"

September

Diana Teal - Director High Park Nature Centre; Tim McCarthy - High Park Hawk Watch; Leslie Gooding - Conservation Initiatives in High Park

"Welcome back to High Park - We haved moved to the High Park Nature Centre and couldn't be more excited! A TOC re-introduction to the Park. There are lots of things to do so lets get involved! Meeting starts as usual - 7:30"

June

Daniel Riley - Environment Canada, Emily Rondel - Bird Studies Canada, Mark Peck - Royal Ontario Museum

"Checklists - Old and New! eBird, the TOC and the New Taxonomy."

May

Caroline Schultz - Executive Director, Ontario Nature

"Protecting life on earth: why we need more parks and protected areas."

April

Zoé Lebrun-Southcott, Executive Director, Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario

"Bobolinks - Grassland birds at risk in agricultural landscapes."

March

Sheryl Santos, Partnering and Engagement Officer, Rouge National Urban Park

"Rouge National Urban Park"

February

Ms. Hazel Wheeler, Lead Biologist - Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery

"Loggerhead Shrike Recovery in Ontario"

January

Dr Kevin Kerr, Curator of Birds & Invertebrates, Toronto Zoo

"The Role of Zoos in Conservation"

2016 MeetingsTop

December

Member's night

"Justin Peter - Cranes of India, Eric Baldo - Birding in Piedmont Italy, John Carley - Two Birds, Two Habitats, Jean Iron - Birds of Iceland, Silent Auction Book Sale"

November

Dr. Alfredo Barerra-Guzman, U of T Scarborough.

"Hybrid zones and hybrid speciation in Amazonian birds". "

October

Dr. Keith Hobson, University of Western Ontario

""From Birds to Butterflies: making connections with stable isotopes". "

September

Dr. Andrew Peregrine, OVC, University of Guelph

"Lyme disease: is the risk of infection increasing in Ontario? (If you like birding in the woods and fields this is a speaker you don't want to miss)"

June

Tianna Burke - Trent University

"Bank Swallow productivity and occupancy: a look at aggregate sites vs. natural sites"

May

Mark Field and Mark Peck

"The Spring Citizen Science Workshop- 1. eBird for rare birds, 2. eBird basic entry, 3. Project NestWatch basic entry "

April

Emily Rondel

"Golden-winged Warblers in Southern Ontario"

March

Jean Bedard and Jean Francois Giroux

"Common Eiders in Quebec"

February

Dan Strickland

"Gray Jays"

January

Jody Allair

"Birds of Hawaii"

2015 MeetingsTop

December

Members' Night. Book Sale-Silent and Live Auction

" John Carley - A Virginia Rail Went for a Walk, Mark Field - Shorebird Banding in Australia, Carol Giagrande and Brian Gibson - Birds of the Western Arctic, Mark Peck - Birding Peru with the TOC."

November

Steve Burrows - Author of "A Siege of Bitterns"

"Birding for Non-birders - As a birder, and now as a writer, I have occasional interactions with non-birders. The talk will share some responses, perceptions and stories and look at some of the ways birds have impacted the lives of non-birders. "

October
a week later due to Thanksgiving

Eric Davies, University of Toronto

"Birds, Biodiversity and the Urban Tree"

September
Welcome back. Hope you had a great summer

TOC Member- Justin Peter

"Birds of the Galapagos"

June

Pat Hodgson, TOC

"Birds of Colombia"

May

Jason Weir – University of Toronto Scarborough

"Why are there so many bird species in the tropics?"

April

TOC Program Workshop

"Getting Involved in the TOC and Citizen Science"

March

Doug Tozer, Bird Studies Canada

"Marsh Birds - Species at Risk"

February

Joanne Jackson, Director - Songbird SOS

"A discussion and screening of a new documentary"

January

Stu MacKenzie, Bird Studies Canada

"The MOTUS Wildlife Tracking System"

2014 MeetingsTop

December

Caroline Biel, Mark Brubacher, Amanda Guercio, Ange Brooks

"CB - Bird Banding at the Doug Tarry Young Ornithologists Workshop (and Other Summer Adventures); MB - Birds of Las Grutus, Argentina; AG - Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas; AB - Species at Risk"

November
Don't forget the Book Sale!

Chris Sharpe

"Urban Canada Geese"

October

Bronwyn Dalziel

"South African Bird Banding"

September

Geoff Carpentier

"Birds of India and Nepal"

June

Michael Mesure

"(FLAP) - Fatal Light Awareness Program"

May

Mark Peck, ROM

"AOU update and the results of the James Bay Shorebird Surveys"

April

Ken Burrell

"Spring reorientation flights of landbirds in the Pelee region"

March

Mike Burrell, Bird Studies Canada

"Ontario's Important Bird Areas"

February

Kevin Seymour, ROM

"Why Birds are Dinosaurs"

January

Jody Allair, Bird Studies Canada

"Forest Birds at Risk"

2013 MeetingsTop

December

Amanda Guercio,Pat Hodgson,Abra Malaga, John Crawford,Skip Shand,Mark Field

"Member's Night"

November

Oliver Haddrath, ROM

"CSI ROM – The DNA Workshop"

October

Jean Iron - TOC

"Arctic Birds of Iceland, Greenland and Canada"

September

Geoff Carpentier

"South Georgia and its rat eradication project"

June

Nigel Shaw

"Migration Monitoring at the Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station"

May

Various

"Did you hear that? - Migration Warmup Workshop"

April

Alex Mills

"Studying Whip-poor-wills"

March

Doug Tozer

"Marsh Bird and Frog Abundance over the past 17 years in the Great Lakes: What Is It Telling Us"

February

Dana Kleniewski

"Nature Conservancy Update"

January

Josh Vandermeulen

"The Big Year, Ontario Style"

2012 MeetingsTop

December

Member's Night

"Five Member Presentations"

November

Tyler Hoar

"Botulism in the Great Lakes"

October
NOTE LATER DATE

Ron Tozer

"Birds of Algonquin Park."

September

Jim Rising

"Speciation and Geographic Variation in Sparrows."

June

Hugh Peacock, Friends of Second Marsh

"Saving Oshawa Second Marsh AGAIN!"

May
EARLIER DATE

Mark Brubacher, TOC

"Birds of Argentina."

April
LATER DATE

Elisabeth van Stam, Bird Studies Canada

"A Swift Decline? Investigating reasons for the decline of Chimney Swifts in Ontario."

March

Daniel Hanley, University of Guelph

"The Evolution of Eggs."

February

Ben Walters, Trent University

"Habitat use in the Ganaraska Forest."

January

Kevin Kerr, Royal Ontario Museum

"Bar coding and the Northern Fulmar."

2011 MeetingsTop

December

Member's Night

"Jeremy Hatt - "Twitching a Bell's Vireo"
John Carley - Birding New Zealand
Pat Hodgson - Birding India
Geoff Carpentier -The Galapagos Islands
Bruce Falls - Macquarie Island Birding.

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November

Margaret Kelch

"Memories of Panama Birding"

October

Jean Iron

"The Ontario Gull Workshop"

September

Dr. Gail Fraser, York University

"Manx Shearwaters in Newfoundland"

June

Geoff Carpentier

"Birds of Taiwan"

May

Trevor Herriot

"A Reading from "Grass, Sky, Song""

April

Jean Iron

"Summer Birds of James Bay"

March

Jessica Lockhart

"Roseate Terns"

February

Chris Maher - Nature Conservancy

"Conservation lands and wildlife viewing opportunites in Haldimand - Norfolk"

January

Hayley Shephard

"Saving the Albatross"

2010 MeetingsTop

December

Various

"TOC Members Night"

November

John Black

"The Evolution of Niagara Birds"

October

Alec Dobson

"A Rockjumper's Tour of Ghanaand"

September

Mark Peck

"The Great TOC Warbler Workshop"

June

George Bryant

"Sixty Years of Birding in Toronto and - The Changes We Have Seen"

May

Karen McDonald

"Colonial Bird Species Management on Tommy Thompson Park"

April

Yvonne Verkuil

"Why is the Eurasian Ruff immigrating into North America: The story of flexible flyways."

March

Geoff Carpentier

"Building the Perfect Polar Bird"

February

Fletcher Smith

"Whimbrel Migration Ecology"

January

Doug Tozer

"The Ecology and Management of breeding Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in Algonquin Provincial Park"

2009 MeetingsTop

December

Various

"Member's Night and Silent Book Auction"

November

Scott MacDougall-Shackleton and Chris Guglielmo

"Avian Research at the University of Western Ontario"

October

Brandon Holden

"20 Days of Florida"

September

Jody Allair of Bird Studies Canada

"e-Bird: Birding technology for the 21st Century"

June

Ghost Bird

"Ivory-billed Woodpecker documentary"

May

Bill Kilburn

"Urban Wildlife"

April

Mark Peck and Jean Iron

"Shorebird Symposium"

March

Dave Milsom

"African Wildlife"

February

Carol Horner and Kevin Seymour

"Birds of Ecuador"

January

Various

"TOC 75th Anniversary Celebration and Book Auction"

2008 MeetingsTop

December

Jean Iron

"Akimiski Island Shorebirds and Natural History"

November

Peter Money

"Wildlife of the Galapagos"

October

Hugh Currie

"Birding in Northern Peru"

September

Don Barnett, Doug Woods, Mark Peck

" Ontario Hawkwatching"

June

Steve Pike

"Birding Argentina - land of spectacular beauty, contrasts and diversity"

May

George Prieksaitis

"Hawk Migration at Hawk Cliff"

April

Kevin Seymour

"Birds of Spain"

March

David Tomlinson

"Changes in Birdlife Caused by Humans"

February

Gene Denzel

"Birds of South Africa"

January

Cindy Cartwright

"Ontario Hummingbirds"

2007 MeetingsTop

December

Jean Iron and Mark Peck

"Fall Shorebirding in the Quebec Islands"

November

Oksana Borowik

"Guatemala Birds"

October

Alvaro Jaramillo

"Island Birds"

September

Bridget Stutchbury

"Silence of the Songbirds"

June

Richard Cannings

"Birds of British Columbia"

May

Pat Hodgson

"Worm-eating Warbler Habitat Modelling"

April

Mark Peck

"Meeting at the ROM. The current Status of Red Knots in North America"

March

Sandra Eadie

"Birds of Namibia"

February

Sandra and Bob Hawkins

"Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley"

January

Jean Iron

"Identifying Shore Birds"

2006 MeetingsTop

December

John Tyacke

"Birding in England"

November

Graeme Gibson

"The Bedside Book of Birds"

October

Jack Hanna

"Birding Uganda (a movie)"

September

Bob Curry

"150 years of change"

June

Alec Dobson

"China: the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the Beidaihe Coastline"

May

Bruce Hunter

"The West Nile Virus and its effect on our birds"

April

Rina Nichols

"The Ontario Loggerhead Shrike Recovery Program"

March

Richard Joos

"Banding at TBO and searching for the Ivory-bill"

February

Jean Iron

"Shorebirds in James Bay / Ivory Gulls and Polar Bears"

January

Bruce Falls

"Birding in India"

2005 MeetingsTop

December

Gene Morton

"What are our neotropic migrants doing during our winter?"

November

Dan Strickland

"Gray Jays"

October

Bob Carswell

"Birding in Argentina (a movie)"

September

Rayfield Pye

"Thickson's Woods Nature Reserve"

June

Bob Carswell

"Birds in Argentina"

May

Joe Duff

"to be announced"

April

Joan Chivers

"Hooded Warblers: female mate choice"

March

Joan Winearls, Glenn Coady

"Meeting at ROM - study skins/specimens, TOC archives, etc."

February

Peter Money

"Wildlife in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa"

January

Paul Grant

"Atlassing in Northern Ontario"

2004 MeetingsTop

December

Jean Iron

"A tour of the Carden Alvar"

November

Luc Fazio

"Birds of the Philippines"

October

Paul Summerskill

"Why Hawk Numbers Vary"

September

Hugh Currie

"The birds of the Cameroon"

June

Tom Nudds

"Waterfowl"

May

Jo Ann MacKenzie, Simon Liao

"Birding in Taiwan"

April

Bruce Falls

"New research findings about the White-throated Sparrow"

March

Bonnie Woolfenden

"Conservation of the Acadian Flycatcher in Ontario"

February

Melissa Evans

"Wood Thrushes and American Redstarts"

January

Bob Jefferies

"Impact of Snow Geese at Churchill, Manitoba"

2003 MeetingsTop

December

Mark Adams

"Sharing the skies with both metal and feather"

November

Mark Peck, Glenn Coady, Karl Konze

"Atlassing along the shores of James Bay, 06 2003"

October

Peter Kappes

"The Birds of Buldir"

September

Don Shanahan

"The birds of Presqu'ile Provincial Park"

June

Dave Milsom

"Raptor migration in Veracruz, Mexico"

May

Kerrith McKay

"The making of a field season...life on the eastern arctic's largest common eider colony"

April

Scott Rush

"Post-breeding dispersal of Hooded Warblers"

March

Theo Hofmann, Glenn Coady, Bill Edmunds

"Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas"

February

Ameen Ahmed

"Birds of India"

January

Jean Iron

"Blue Geese and other birds of Polar Bear Provincial Park"

2002 MeetingsTop

December

Richard Joos

"Little Gulls of Churchill, Manitoba"

November

Roy Smith

"The birds of Southeast Australia"

October

Scott Connop

"Tips for Birding in the Tropics"

September

Eva Bednarczuk

"Southern Flying Squirrels of Point Pelee and Hamilton Valley"

June

Video presentation

"Twitchers; Albert Lyrebird - Prince of the rain forest"

May

Jim Quinn

"Social Systems of the Scrub Jay, Guira Cuckoo, Smooth-billed Ani, and Pukeko"

April

Pam Martin

"Presence and Effects of Lead in the Raptors of Ontario"

March

Peter Money

"Penguin Quest"

February

Ralph Morris

"The Biology and Conservation of Common Terns"

January

Eric Machell

"The Birds of Cuba"

January

Gunnar Engblom

"Conservation of Threatened Birds of Peru"

2001 MeetingsTop

December

John Miles

"Bird Banding in Selkirk Provincial Park"

November

Jim Richards

"Birds of the Arctic"

October

Jean Iron

"Toronto's Heermann's Gull"

September

Dave Milsom

"The Birds of Spain and Tunisia"

June

Richard Joos

"Latitudinal Gradients, Forest Structure, and Avian Diversity"

May

Ken Abraham

"Hudson Bay Lowlands - A Distinctive Wetland Legacy"

April

Kenn Kaufman

"Why and How to Write a Field Guide"

March

Allan Baker

"Red Knots: Migratory Shorebirds and Horseshoe Crabs"

February

Mike Cadman

"The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds of Ontario"

January

Scott Connop

"Birding Around the World"

2000 MeetingsTop

December

Chip Weseloh

"Trends in Black Tern and Gull Populations in Ontario"

November

George Bryant

"The Seabirds of the World"

October

Mark Peck

"Black-capped Vireos in Big Bend National Park, Texas"

September

Roy Smith

"The Shorebirds of Eighty Mile Beach, Australia"

June

Sam Barone

"Photographing the Birds of Ontario"

May

Ted Cheskey

"The Important Bird Areas Program"

April

John Black

"Passerine Migration on Weather Radar"

March

Michael Mesure

"Fatal Light Awareness Program"

February

Jason Jones

"The Cerulean Warbler in Eastern Ontario"

January

Vernon Thomas

"Lesser Snow Geese in the Hudson Bay Lowlands"

1999 MeetingsTop

December

Ron Scovell

"Birding in Peru"

November

Jim Rising

"Defining subspecies"

October

George Peck and Mark Peck

"Identification challenges"

September

Roger Pocklington

"Ornithology in Bermuda"

June

Oliver Haddrath

"The Evolution of the Ratites"

May

Erica Nol

"Birds in Fragmented Forests"

April

Toni Salvadori

"Birding in Hell, Searching for Paradise"

March

Oksana Borowik

"A profile of Phoebe Snetsinger"

February

Jon McCracken

"Ontario's Birds at Risk"

January

Scott Connop

"The Birds of Peru"

1998 MeetingsTop

December

Bruce Falls

"The Birds of South Africa"

November

Bob Curry

"The Brown Thrushes of North America"

October

Barry Kent Mackay

"Wildlife Illustration and the Difficulties Wildlife Artists Face"

September

Jim Bendell

"The Grouse of Canada"

0 MeetingsTop

November
17 October, 2022 - note date

Rob Porter - Director at Large, Hamilton Naturalist Club and Host of the Songbirding Podcast

"In person - The Wide World of Birding - A look under the hood at the new Merlin app, Eastern Bluebird Trails and a look at Hamilton's Christmas Bird Count data."

November

Shae Turner MSc student Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia

"Canadian research in Jamaica: understanding the winter lives of our migratory warblers through bird banding and the Motus Wildlife Tracking System"

November

Shae Turner, Master of Science student at Thompson Rivers University and Registered Professional Biologist in the province of British Columbia

"Canadian research in Jamaica: Understanding the winter lives of our migratory warblers through bird banding and the Motus Wildlife Tracking System"