The Paskamansett Bird Club’s March meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. on March 8 at the Community Hall of Friends meeting house, located at 739 Horseneck Road. Krill Carson will speak about seabirds found off the New England coast.

Carson is a marine biologist who has worked in the New England area since 1980. She founded the New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance in 2005, an all-volunteer nonprofit working to better understand and protect the unique coastal marine wildlife off New England. NECWA does extensive rescue work with the whales, seabirds, seals, sea turtles, ocean sunfish, basking sharks, and diamondback terrapins that live along the shores of Cape Cod and the South Coast.

In the process of its research and rescue work, NECWA encounters a wide range of birds that spend most of their time at sea. This presentation will focus on the gulls and seabirds that you can see when offshore, for example on a whale watch. Such offshore excursions offer some of the most remarkable birding opportunities, allowing birders to get close to birds that rarely visit land, and to observe specialized behaviors of some familiar birds. Learn about such seabirds as the various Shearwaters, the Gannets, and assorted Alcids such as the Gullemots, Murres and even the elusive Atlantic Puffins.

The meeting is free, open to the public, and accessible. Contact Alice Morgan at morgan.alice@gmail.com with any questions.