Bedford Audubon Society

Election of Directors
BAS Directors are elected for three-year terms. After two consecutive three-year terms, directors are required to take a one-year leave from the board.

Carol Gracie and Nannette Orr have served one three year term and have been nominated to serve a second term from 2008-2011.

Janet Andersen was appointed to the board after last May’s annual meeting. This vote is to officially vote her in to continue her first term ending in 2010.

All About Bluebirds — and More With Naturalist John Rogers

John’s PowerPoint presentation encompasses the life history of the Eastern Bluebird, nest box management, other birds that nest in bluebird boxes, and more. The theme throughout is nature appreciation. The focus is on bluebirds, but John also shares his passion for the natural world in hopes the audience will absorb some broader and deeper messages.

John Rogers has maintained a trail of hundreds of bluebird nest boxes in central New York for decades, and has fledged over 11,000 Eastern Bluebirds. He is a recognized authority on bluebird conservation, and has done slide programs, field trips, and workshops for hundreds of organizations. John was a cofounder of the New York State Bluebird Society in 1982. He is a recipient of the Bluebird Conservation Award from the North American Bluebird Society, and a past board member of that organization. John holds a BA in Biology from SUNY Oswego.

The program is free and open to the public.

Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné), born in 1707 in Sweden, is often referred to as the father of taxonomy. He was the first person to consistently refer to species using a binomial (e.g. Homo sapiens); many of the binomials in use today were first coined by Linnaeus over 250 years ago. In his talk, Gerry Moore will provide an overview of the life of Carolus Linnaeus, including methods developed by him that continue to be used in biological taxonomy today.

Gerry Moore is currently the Director of Science at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where he has worked for the past eight years. He also serves as the coordinator for the Garden’s New York Metropolitan Flora project that seeks to document and map the occurrences of all vascular plants growing without cultivation in the New York Metropolitan region. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1997 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University from 1997-1999. Gerry Moore is an adjunct faculty member of the Pratt Institute and Rutgers University and a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. He grew up in southern New Jersey and has spent much of his life studying the flora of the northeastern United States. He has given presentations on Linnaeus at the American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and Uppsala University.

The program is free and open to the public.