Please note – all our indoor meetings now start at 7.30 pm.
Just at the time when you want to refresh your knowledge of bird vocalisations, Keith Betton will take us through a range of both common and scarcer species, with a mixture of sound and vision.
Keith devotes much of his summer to studying and helping to protect the small population of Stone Curlews that breed in remote locations on the downs in Hampshire. He has been the County Bird Recorder in Hampshire since 2010 and is currently Chair of the Hampshire Ornithological Society. When not birding locally, Keith is a keen world traveller having seen nearly 8,600 species in over 100 countries. A past trustee of both the RSPB and BTO, he has also chaired OSME and the African Bird Club, and is Vice President of the latter. Having retired early from a career in the media, he is now an advisor to BirdLife International, providing free media training to their worldwide staff. He has co-authored two books profiling prominent birdwatchers and has recently revised the popular guidebook ‘Where to Watch Birds in Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight’.
We will be meeting in person in Room 109 in the Palmer Building as usual, but you can also join remotely via Zoom if you prefer. Please click here to join the meeting. You can join from 7.15 pm and the meeting will start at 7.30 pm. You will be muted when you join; please stay muted except when you have been asked to unmute, for recent sightings, questions, etc.