Banquet

DVOC Banquet 2023 - featuring speaker Scott Whittle


It's that magical time of year again... banquet season!

Join us on Friday, November 17th, 2023 at 6:30pm for a tasty buffet-style dinner and presentation by speaker Scott Whittle, director of the global bioacoustics program Terra and co-author of The Warbler Guide.

Please note this year's event is on a Friday night!

Where: 1301 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19147
When: 6:30 pm
Tickets: $59

Schedule:
6:30pm: Cocktail Hour with Cash Bar
7:30pm: Buffet-Style Dinner & Presentation by speaker Scott Whittle

Listening for Life: Saving birds with bioacoustics

Speaker: Scott Whittle
The study of birds has always been a difficult science to put into practice. Trying to track an individual bird’s behavior, much less the behavior of a whole population, can seem nearly impossible. One powerful and underutilized tool towards solving the problem is to use something the birds themselves have given us: their sounds! Songs, calls and even mechanical sounds can identify birds not only to species, but in some cases to age and sex. By studying these sounds, we can track not only individuals but whole populations as they move around their territories and around the globe. Join Scott Whittle, director of the global bioacoustics program Terra, as he talks about the mechanics, history and future potential of using bird’s sounds as a powerful tool for conservation.

Menu (Buffet-Style)

Deluxe Chef Salad (v)

Entrees:
Grilled & Roasted Fall Vegetables in Puff Pastry (v)
Chicken Prosciutto
Carved Top Round of Beef

Sides:
Rosemary Bliss Potatoes (v), Italian Vegetable Medley (v), Vegetable Pasta Salad, Tomato & Cucumber Salad (v), Rolls with Butter

Dessert:
Assorted Cookies, Cannolis, Pastries, and Cake
(v) = vegan

All are welcome.
Questions? Email banquet@dvoc.org


Presentations

Past Speakers

2022 Mark Garland The Great, Amazing, Wonderful Birds of the World Trivia Quiz
2021 Holly Merker Ornitherapy
2020 Peter Kaestner From Zero to 9400--a Life of Birding
2019 Jeff Gordon It’s Too Late to Stop Now: Sharing the Gospel of Birding in the 21st Century
2018 Kevin Karlson & Pete Dunne Birds of Prey
2017 Neil Hayward Lost Among the Birds
2016 Katie Fallon Coffee, Coal, and Cooperation: Saving the Cerulean Warbler
2015 Pat and Clay Sutton Reflections of DVOC
2014 Katrina van Grouw A Very Fine Swan Indeed: Art, Science and
‘The Unfeathered Bird’
2013 Bill Thompson III The Perils and Pitfalls of Birding
2012 Stephen
W. Kress
Restoring Endangered Seabirds: Lessons from
Puffins and Terns
2011 Kevin Karlson and Dale Rosselet "The Birds of Cape May"
2010 Scott Weidensaul "Messing Around with Birds (for Fun
and Science)”
2009 Rick Wright "The Most Beautiful of the Whole Beautiful
Lot: Wood Warblers of the American Southwest"
2008 Pat and Clay Sutton "Birds and Birding at Cape May (a Bird
Walk Through Time)"
2007 Don Kroodsma "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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