Subject: Vancouver BC Big Day 95
Date: Apr 6 14:30:04 1995
From: Michael Price - Michael_Price at mindlink.bc.ca
VANCOUVER BC BIRDING BIG DAY 95
The *VANCOUVER BIG DAY 95*, our birdathon for raising money for coastal
wetlands preservation in British Columbia, will be held this year on the
first weekend of May, so *this* year you have the pleasure of hot birding
in the middle of spring migration (and *this* year you won't have an excuse
for not visiting yer dear old mudda...)
Big Day 95 will be held on two days, actually: Saturday, May 06 and Sunday,
May 07.
Saturday's phase is from midnight-to-midnight for both competitive hardcore
Big Day junkies seeking to break the Vancouver Big Day record of 138
species, and anyone else of any age who wants to participate at whatever
level of commitment with which they're comfortable, while Sunday's is from
dawn (about 6.30 am PDT) to 3 pm, with a post-count get-together at the
Reifel Refuge in Ladner, where there'll be munchies and non-alcoholic
drinks and a raffle.
There will be prizes for raising money and seeing birds, and you'll get a
*FREE* Vancouver BC Big Day 95 Official Souvenir Sweatshirt with your
registration fee. (I've seen the graphic, a Black-bellied Plover, as befits
wetlands preservation, and it looks pretty darn good--MP).
The funds raised during this Big Day will be split evenly between two
registered non-profit associations, both of which are active in wetlands
preservation: the Nature Trust of BC and the Wild Bird Trust of BC. The
scope of Vancouver Big Day 95 is the entire Greater Vancouver Checklist
Area: its newly-revised boundaries are, roughly: E to Bradner Rd. in
Abbotsford, N to the southern boundary of Garibaldi Pk, W to mid-Georgia
Strait, and S to the 49th Parallel, but including Point Roberts, Washington
and 5km offshore.
Registration is C$20 or US$15.
To get your registration package, call, fax, or write: Glenn Petersen
1057-164 ST,
Surrey,
Canada V4A 4Y6
Tel: (604) 535-9570
Fax: Same
If you find that you can't make it but would still like to support the
cause of wetlands preservation on the West Coast (and the birds could care
less about which side of the border their wetland habitat is on), the
Vancouver Big Day 95 Committee, a part of the Vancouver Natural History
Society, will accept donations (tax-deductible in Canada; I'm not sure how
a donation works crossing the border. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate it if
he or she could reply directly to me--MP) instead. Everything helps.
Thanks.
Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
michael_price at mindlink.bc.ca