MEET THE MEMBERS OF NYSARC 
In order to "put a face" so to speak on NYSARC, a short biographi¬ 
cal note of each member is shown below. They are in alphapbetical 
order and each one was written by the member himself. 
KENNETH P. ABLE 
I began to watch birds seriously and to keep records around age 11. 
Since that time, I have birded throughout North America, in Mexico, 
Costa Rica, Peru. New Zealand, Australia, Iceland, England, Spain, 
France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and South Africa. I estab¬ 
lished five first state records for Kentucky and one each for Indiana and 
Louisiana. As a teenager I decided that I wanted to study birds profes¬ 
sionally and pursued that career at the University of Louisville, Louisiana 
State University and the University of Georgia where I completed a Ph.D. 
in Zoology in 1971. Since then I have been on the faculty at the University 
at Albany, SUNY, where I am a Professor of Biology. 
My professional life has been devoted to studies of bird migration and 
orientation, about which I have published more than 100 scientific 
papers. A recent book (Gatherings of Angels — Migrating Birds and Their 
Ecology, Cornell University Press, 1999) treats these subjects for a lay 
audience. I am a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) 
and the Animal Behavior Society and a Corresponding Fellow of the 
Deutsche Omithologen-Gesellschaft. In 19961 was awarded the William 
Brewster Medal of the AOU. Currently I serve on the Council of the AOU 
and the Board of Directors of the American Birding Association (ABA). I 
am editor of the Monographs in Field Ornithology series published by 
the ABA and of the Gleanings From the Technical Literature column that 
appears regularly in Birding . I was one of the original members of 
NYSARC and, except for one term, I have served continuously since its 
inception. 
ROBERT ANDRLE 
My interest in birds began in boyhood, and later my particular inter¬ 
ests became distribution, abundance and ecology. Educated at Canisius 
College, University of Buffalo and Louisiana State University, my doc- 
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