The Lancaster County Bird Club (LCBC) will offer a field trip on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 8 a.m. at the Conewago Recreation Trail in Elizabethtown. Participants must register by 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8, by contacting trip leader Carl Groff at 717-471-9969 or fledge19@verizon.net.

The LCBC will meet on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. at the North Museum of Nature and Science, 400 College Ave., Lancaster. Matthew Young will present "Finch Irruptions, Finch Feeding and the Stokes Guide to Finches of the U.S. and Canada." The presentation will include a discussion of "The Stokes Guide to Finches," which Young co-wrote with Lillian Stokes. In the book, 43 types of finches from the U.S. and Canada are included, and the guide covers detailed finch identification, language, behavior, irruptions, specialized maps and foraging charts on crossbills, how to conserve finches, and more.

Young is a co-lead on the Evening Grosbeak Road to Recovery Project and is the founder and board president of the Finch Research Network. Young worked in the field of social work with special needs populations at the William George Agency for more than 12 years and is currently a wild bird products specialist and conservation coordinator for Aspen Song Wild Bird Food. Additionally, he worked at the Cornell Lab for 15 years. Widely known as a preeminent authority on finches of North America, he has written finch species accounts for breeding bird atlases and Birds of the World accounts, and he has published several papers on finches and the red crossbill vocal complex.

The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, call 717-856-3851 or 717-725-2717.

For more information about the LCBC, visit http://www.lancasterbirdclub.org, http://www.facebook.com/lancasterbirdclub, or http://www.instagram.com/lancasterbirdclub.