UPCOMING APPEARANCES
- New York State Ornithological Association, 70th Annual Meeting and Birders Conference, Niagara Falls State Park, NY. November 11-12, 2017
- Reading Public Library, Reading, MA. 7PM, September 26, 2017
- York County Audubon, Wells, ME. 7PM, June 20, 2017
- Wild Birds Unlimited, Hilton Head, SC. June 17, 2017
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES
- Attu! Co-leader for Zugunruhe Birding Tours. May 18 – June 4, 2017
- Scranton Memorial Library, Madison, CT. 7PM, May 9, 2017
- Louisiana Ornithological Society, Lake Charles, LA. April 28-29, 2017
- Marlborough Public Library, Marlborough, MA. 7PM, April 12, 2017
- Brookline Bird Club, eBird Workshop, 3PM, January 28, 2017
- Avon Free Public Library, CT. 7PM, November 17, 2016
- Toledo Naturalists’ Association, OH. November 12, 2016
- Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, TX. November 2- , 2016.
- American Birding Association, Annual General Meeting. October 28, 2016
- Indiana Audubon Society, Mary Gray Sanctuary, IN. October 1-2, 2016
- Jabberwocky Bookshop, Newburyport, MA. 7PM, September 16, 2016
- British Birdwatching Fair, Rutland, UK, 1:30-2:15PM August 19, 2016
- Westborough Public Library, Westborough, MA. 7pm, July 26, 2016
- Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, VT. 10AM, July 24, 2016
- Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA. 7PM, July 18, 2016
- Titcomb’s Bookshop, East Sandwich, MA. 4PM, July 10, 2016
- Gibson’s Bookstore, Concord, NH. 5:30PM, July 7, 2016
- Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats, Newburyport, MA. June 24, 2016
- Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA. 7PM June 16, 2016Wisconsin Public Radio,
- Joy Cardin Show. 9am, June 16, 2016
- The Harvard Coop, Cambridge, MA. 7 PM, June 7, 2016 (Publication Day!)
- Connecticut Ornithological Association, Middletown, CT, (3.19.16)
- Beckham Bird Club, Louisville, KY, (3.8.16)
- Allen Bird Club, Springfield, MA, (3.7.16)
- Homer Shorebird Festival, AK (5.715 – 5.10.15)
- Hoffmann Bird Club, Pittsfield, MA (5.1.15)
- Maryland Bird Club, Annapolis, MD. (3.18.14)
- Essex County Ornithological Club, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. (11.14.14)
- Seattle Audubon Society, Seattle, WA. (10.16.14)
- Cape Cod Birding Club, Dennis, MA. (10.13.14)
- Columbus Audubon, Columbus OH. (9.23.14)
- San Diego Field Ornithologists Meeting. San Diego, CA. (8.19.14)
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Annual Garden Party, Lincoln, MA. (6.8.14)
- Biggest Week in Birding. Keynote Address, Maumee Bay, OH (5.11.14 )
- Brookline Bird Club Annual Meeting Presentation, Harvard Museum of Natural
- History, Cambridge, MA. (4.11.14)
TALKS
I currently have two talks – My Accidental Big Year and Hawai’i: The Extinction Capital of the World. Both are about an hour long. They feature images of birds, my wife, our cats and are mildly educational and may make you laugh (hopefully for the right reasons). Descriptions are below. Please get in touch if you’re interested in hearing me talk.
My Accidental Big Year
In 2013 Boston birder Neil Hayward suffered a devastating bout of the Big Year. The temporary insanity resulted in almost 250,000 miles of travel, taking him to the remote corners of this continent: Barrow in the frozen north; the 
Dry Tortugas, dangling off the Florida Keys to the south; Newfoundland, poking out to the east; and tiny Adak, adrift in the volcanic Aleutian chain of the west. And a place they call New Jersey. By the year’s end, he’d netted some 750 species of bird and quite possibly set a new ABA Big Year record. In this talk, Neil will take a Big Year and apply cutting-ed
ge high pressure technology and condense it into a Big Hour. Come hear about exotic birds, remote places, volcanoes, polar bears, Aleutian plumbing and more! Government health warning: Big Years can be contagious. High pressure technology not previously tested.
Hawai’i–Extinction Capital of the World
Hawai’i has it all: sun, surf, drinks with umbrellas, and birds everywhere. It’s like someone left the door open on a huge world aviary and all the birds flew out: Mannikins, Francolins, Waxbills and Munias. But something is rotten in the state of Hawai’i; more than half of the endemic species have already disappeared and the rest are barely hanging on. The Honeycreepers of Hawai’i represent a remarkable example of evolutionary speciation like Darwin’s Finches in the Galapagos Islands. Come hear about these extraordinary birds, find out about some of the conservation efforts to save them, and learn how to pronounce the letter ‘.
Sun and surfboards not provided. Please bring your own umbrella drinks.
