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Presenter: Peter Pyle
Location: San Leandro Library, 300 Estudillo Ave, San Leandro, CA 94577
Bryan's Shearwater, a new bird species was identified in the U.S. in 2011 via DNA anaylsis of a 1963 specimen while Peter was compiling a monograph on Hawaii's birds. Peter will recount the story of the discovery and tell us everything about this elusive bird, including a recent discovery of a breeding colony in Japan.
Peter Pyle is an ornithologist and marine biologist. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he partook in the Hawaii, Micronesia, and Samoa Forest Bird Surveys.
From the early 1980s through the early 2000s much of his research was conducted on birds and white sharks at the Farallon Islands, California. He has developed a
special interest in bird molt and how it can be used to age birds, and has published many papers and taught many workshops on this subject in North and Latin America.
Among bird banders, he is best known for his Identification Guides summarizing molt, ageing, and sexing information for North American birds in the hand.
He is a Research Associate both at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, and the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. To date, he has authored over
120 papers in scientific journals and three books, and has been a co-author on over 70 additional scientific papers and an on-line monograph on the birds of Hawaii. He currently works for the Institute for Bird Populations in Point Reyes Station, California.
Directions:
From I-580, take the Estudillo exit. Follow Estudillo to library on the right. From I-880, take the Davis St. exit , head east, passing under BART tracks. Go thru light at E. 14th St (Davis becomes Callan). Continue 11⁄2 blocks to library on right. We‘ll meet in the Karp Room.