Half day trip to look for birds in all areas of the Queen Elizabeth Park. Contact Leader Adrian Grant Duff at 604-263-7957. Meet in the East Parking lot above the tennis courts at 0830.

The diversity of fungi in the Queen Charlotte Islands include species with various relationships with plants, animals and other fungi. Some mushrooms are rare and others widely sought after by humans; many are photogenic. We will see many mushrooms documented over five years of inventory in this slide show of Haida Gwaii fungi.

Look for late migrants and wintering waterbirds and passerines in Stanley Park. Areas covered may include parts of the Seawall, Beaver Lake, Lost Lagoon, and some of the interior trails; good boots or walking shoes that can handle wet and muddy trails are recommended. Dress for the weather and bring a snack and maybe a warm drink.

Organization of Christmas Bird Count  The main focus of the meeting will be to talk about upcoming Christmas Bird Counts with emphasis on the Vancouver Count on Sunday December 20.

This half day outing will be our third annual search for American Dippers in the Pitt Meadows/Maple Ridge area. We have been successful finding our quarry both previous years. After locating a Dipper or 2 we will spend the balance of the morning travelling the Pitt Polder in search of overwintering raptors, waterfowl and Northern Shrike.

In 2008, Jen Reynolds, the Aquarium’s Senior Biologist, spent nearly two months living on the Zambian shores of Lake Tanganyika, in East Africa. With McMaster University scientists, Reynolds studied cichlid fishes found nowhere else in the world. Lake Tanganyika is the second deepest and longest lake in the world. It contains more than 200 such endemic cichlids and is considered an area of extremely high biodiversity. Cichlids exhibit fascinating social behavior. Jen spent more than 150 hours scuba diving and observing the fish in their natural habitat. Join Jen to learn more about living on Lake Tanganyika and the fascinating endemic fishes that call it home.