Travis Audubon General Membership Meetings
Lynn Barber will talk about and show pictures from her “ABA Big
Year” adventure that began in Rockport, Texas in January 2008. During
that year, she sought birds from Alaska and California to Newfoundland
and Florida, plus many places in between, including Texas, Arizona,
Colorado, Maine, and Minnesota. She tallied 723 different species of
birds in the continental United States and Canada (the ABA area) that
year, before ending in Arizona.
Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in several states including
Alaska, Oregon, North Carolina and Texas. In 2005, she broke
the previous record for the most bird species seen in Texas
during a single year. When she’s not birding, she is a registered
patent attorney in solo practice in Fort Worth, Texas. She has a
Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and a J.D. from Duke University Law School. Currently, Lynn is
the President of the Texas Ornithological Society, and Treasurer
and Past President of the Fort Worth Audubon Society. She is
an avid photographer and maintains her own birding web site, where
you can see some of her photos.
