Visiting from Bermuda on invitation by the University of Auckland Biological Sciences, Dr. Miguel Mejías is a Bermudian ornithologist, naturalist, and conservationist. Since 2011, at the age of 24, he became an apprentice of Dr. David Wingate, who inspired him to pursue a career in Ornithology and Conservation. Miguel will be presenting some of the findings of his doctoral research, his focal study species was the Bermuda White-eyed Vireo, an endemic subspecies in his country. He was awarded both his M.Sc. and PhD. from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Miguel currently serves as committee member on both the Bermuda Audubon Society and the Bermuda Zoological Society Trunk Island Living Classroom, through the Bermuda Zoological Society.
Non members welcome, join us for supper afterwards. Koha appreciated to cover hall hire.