Board member Gailon Brehm (right) leads author Joel Greenberg (center in green shirt) and a group of friends on a recent bird walk in the Meadow Nature Preserve.

Board member and past president Gailon Brehm recently hosted a bird walk in the Meadow Nature Preserve for Joel Greenberg, author of  “A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction.”

Joel, a researcher at the Field Museum and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago was in town as part of a lecture tour based around the 100th year since the last pigeon of that species died.

Joel was very appreciative of the opportunity to see a bit of preserved Texas Blackland and our work in protecting open space. During his visit, he was also interviewed by KERA radio and you can hear the interview here.

Author Joel Greenberg.