Learn of State's Rare Birds
At the January 16, 2001 Meeting

A slide show by one of the state’s foremost experts in bird identification, distribution, and occurrence will highlight the Three Rivers Birding Club meeting on Wednesday, January 16. Jerry McWilliams of Erie County will present "Rare Birds of Pennsylvania," featuring photographs of unusual birds he has taken in the state. Interesting anecdotes and identification tips will accompany each slide, and this educational program will include audience participation.

The meeting will be held at the Frick Park Nature Center, opposite 1960 Beechwood Blvd., in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill section. Doors will open at 7 p.m. for socializing, and the meeting will begin at 7:30.

Jerry (Gerald M.) is most prominently known as the senior author of The Birds of Pennsylvania, the first comprehensive book on the state’s birds since 1890, which was published last year by Cornell University Press. It is now the standard reference work on its subject, and everyone with an interest in Pennsylvania birdlife should have it. Jerry also co-authored The Birds of Erie County, published in 1985.

He is the Erie County compiler for the journal Pennsylvania Birds, a sub-regional editor for the journal North American Birds, a past member of the Pennsylvania Ornithological Records Committee and is presently Bird Records Chairman for the Presque Isle Audubon Society.

Jerry has traveled throughout the United States and the world including Trinidad, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Kenya in pursuit of birds and butterflies. He has photographed more than 800 species of birds worldwide, and many of his pictures have been published and won photo competitions.

This is sure to be a memorable program. Whether you are a beginning or an expert birder, come early and make new friends who have the same interests in birds as you.