ANNUAL BANQUET - 2008
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ANNUAL BANQUET - 2008
Bernice and Joseph Koplin - Co-Chairpersons
Both members and non-members are welcome at the banquet!
Clay and Pat Sutton, "Birds and Birding at Cape May (a Bird Walk Through Time)," program and book signing by Clay and Pat Sutton
The husband and wife team of Clay and Pat Sutton are long-time naturalists whose names are synonymous with Cape May, New Jersey, a place that has been aptly called the migration capitol of North America. Pat Sutton was for 21 years the Program Director at the New Jersey Audubon Society’s Cape May Bird Observatory. Prior to that, she was the Park Naturalist at Cape May Point State Park. Pat is a founding board member of the North American Butterfly Association.Clay is a life-long resident of Cape May, where he has worked as an Environmental Program Administrator, Vice-President of an environmental consulting firm specializing in threatened and endangered species, and for the past decade as a self-employed naturalist and field biologist. He is a long-time instructor for the American Birding Association’s Institute for Field Ornithology. Today, Clay and Pat are free-lance writers, naturalists, lecturers, and tour leaders.
Pat’s consuming interests include owls, butterflies, and wildlife gardening and wildscapes. Clay is captivated by migration in all its forms.
Clay and Pat have had papers published in a number of journals and proceedings, and have contributed numerous popular articles to virtually all of the popular birding magazines. Clay is a co-author, with Pete Dunne and David Sibley, of the instant classic Hawks in Flight (Houghton Mifflin, 1988), and Clay and Pat together have co-authored How to Spot an Owl, How to Spot Hawks and Eagles, and How to Spot Butterflies, all published by Houghton Mifflin.
Their landmark book, Birds and Birding at Cape May, was published in 2006 by Stackpole Books, the in-depth result of their efforts over many years documenting and protecting the migration and the hometown that they so love. Their program will share the history of birds and birding at Cape May, including DVOC and Philadelphia's major roles.
To be announced
The Witmer Stone Award, the Julian K. Potter Award and the Conservation Award are presented at the annual banquet.
| 2007 | Don Krooshma | "The Singing Life of Birds" |
| 2006 | Pete Dunne | "25 Things That Have Changed Birding" |
| 2005 | Michael Male and Judy Feith | "Bitter Lake NWR" |
| 2004 | Dr. Carl Safina | "Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope & Survival" |
| 2003 | Kenn Kaufmann | "Birds and the Undiscovered World" |
| 2002 |
Scott Weidensaul |
"Raising
the Dead: The Search for Lost Species." |
| 2001 |
Bill Murphy |
"The
Birds of Trinidad and Tobago" |
| 2000 |
Kevin Karlson |
“For
the Love of Birds” |
| 1999 |
Julio de
la Torre |
"Owls
of North America" |
| 1998 |
Peter Mathiessen
|
"Cranes
of the World" |
| 1997 |
Arthur
Morris |
Bird Photographer |
| 1996 |
Steve Hilty
|
"Dreams
and Realites in the American Tropics" |
| 1995 |
Noel Snyder |
"Re-introduction
of the Thick-billed Parrot" |
| 1994 |
Debra Love
Shearwater |
"Through
the Seasons: An Introduction to the Seabirds and Marine Mammals of Monterey
Bay" |
| 1993 |
Dr. Jerome
Jackson |
"America's
Endangered Woodpeckers: The Ivory-billed and the Red-cockaded" |
| 1992 |
Peter Alden |
"Birding
Antartica and Patagonia" |
| 1991 |
Daphne
Gemmill |
"Earthwatch
- Birding Opportunities" |
| 1990 |
Paul Butler |
RARE Center
for Tropical Bird Conservation |
| 1989 |
Emile De
Vito |
"Birding
and Conservation in Costa Rica" |
| 1988 |
William
Streeter |
"Northeastern
Birds of Prey" |
| 1987 |
Ray Davis
|
"Florida
Birds " |
| 1986 |
Jim Brett
|
"From
David's Spring to Wadi Qelt: A Naturalist's Isreal" |
| 1985 |
Armas Hill |
"Adventures
in Brazil" |
| 1984 | Pete Dunne | Ornithological Traditions of Cape May |
| 1983 | Daniel Roby | "Birds of the Falklands and South Georgia" |
| 1982 | Len Soucy | |
| 1981 | Armas Hill | California Birding |
| 1980 | Ben King | "Birds of Asia" |
| 1979 | Dr. Kenneth C. Parkes | "Birdwatcher at a Rusty Gate" |
| 1978 | John C. Yrizarry | "Birds of Tikal" |
| 1977 | Dr. George Gee | Endangered Species Program |
| 1976 | Richard A. Rowlett | Sea Birds and Mammals off the Atlantic Coast |
| 1971 | Dr. Peter Paul Kellogg | Bahama Birds and Bird Songs |
| 1970 | Dr. Charles Wurster | The Impact of DDT |
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