Doug James, president of Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society and mentor of generations of biologists, on hand for Joe Neal's lecture on Birds in NW Ark

Please click on images to ENLARGE view of crowd on August 1, 2009, to hear Joe Neal discuss birds in Northwest Arkansas. Neal's recently published update of a decades-old book that he and his mentor, Dr. Douglas James of the University of Arkansas, and he compiled, met with the approbation of the record crowd in nightbird's meeting area adjacent to Chad Hammontree's bar and restaurant.