A Touch of South Asia’s Nature

The speaker for our October 20 OKC Audubon meeting will be Joe Grzybowski sharing his recent experience in Central Thailand with A Touch of Southeast Asia’s Nature.

Joe recently took part in a Wings tour and had quite the experience visiting some of Thailand’s forested and mountainous national parks. Also visited were the salt pan areas along the coast of the Bay of Thailand, host to thousands of wintering Asian shorebirds. Joe always has beautiful photographs to enjoy.

Joe has had an interest in Oklahoma ornithology for a long while.  He created a Bibliography of Oklahoma Ornithology 1984.  Retired, he is still a Research Associate with the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.  His personal experiences began in western New York and covered the period of the “old-school” ornithologists.  Early mentors were individuals like Harold Axtell and Stephen Eaton during a time focused of natural history studies.  Coming to Oklahoma, he became acquainted and interacted with George Sutton, an icon of Oklahoma Ornithology, and many of his students. He has conducted field work on wild turkeys, grassland birds, population biology and recovery of black-capped vireos, cowbird parasitism, raptors, etc. and has been associated with the upcoming breed of ornithologists in the State.  With Sutton’s passing, Joe continued Sutton’s record-keeping pattern with the formation of the Oklahoma Bird Records Committee, and has written accounts on the birds of the Southern Great Plains for American Birds, now North American Birds, since the late 1980s.  He is also a Fellow in the American Ornithological Society (formerly American Ornithologists’ Union).  Come along, bring a friend and enjoy an Eastern Hemisphere experience.

Our meetings are held September through June on the third Monday of each month.  Meetings begin at 7 p.m. Visitors are always welcome.

Meeting Location:

Our meetings are held at the Will Rogers Garden center, located at the intersection of NW 36th Street and I-44. The Oklahoma City Audubon Society is neither a chapter of, nor affiliated with, the National Audubon Society.