Subject: WOS Meeting Monday, February 2, 2004
Date: Jan 30 14:00:15 2004
From: Michael Hobbs - hummer at isomedia.com


The Washington Ornithological Society would like to announce their February
meeting in Seattle (location, time, and directions at the bottom):

Monday, February 2, 2004 - Sharon Birks and Rob Faucett of the Burke Museum
will discuss the programs in ornithology at the Burke.

Over the past 30 years, the Ornithology Collection at the Burke Museum has
grown to one of international stature. With this growth, it has undergone
vast changes in holdings and activities. Its collections serve students,
researchers, and artists worldwide, but are relatively unknown to many of
the birders in our area. Collection Managers Rob Faucett and Sharon Birks
would like to take this opportunity to familiarize WOS members with some of
the Ornithology programs at the Burke, and to introduce you to some of its
special collections and how they are used. They will discuss recent research
and expeditions, salvage efforts, and public outreach such as the Burke's
Nest Record Card Program. They will also discuss volunteer opportunities at
the Burke, including bird specimen preparation and general collections work.

Sharon Birks is the Genetic Resources Manager at the Burke Museum. She
obtained her B.S. in Zoology from the University of Washington in 1986, and
studied the reproductive behavior of Australian Brush-turkeys for her Ph.D.

Robert C. Faucett is the Collections Manager of Ornithology at the Burke,
where he dedicates much of his time to facilitating and participating in
international collecting expeditions and growing the collection. Rob
received his B.A. in biology from Colorado College and is working towards
his M.S. in ecology and evolution at Louisiana State University where his
research concerns the evolution of voice in the genus Thamnophilus
(antshrikes). His general research interests lie in phylogenetic
relationships and character evolution in suboscine birds and biogeography of
the neotropics.

March 1 - John Withey will present a program on western Washington's Crows
April 5 - Ann Essinger will present "The Secret Life of the Great Blue Heron
May 3 - Ed Schulz and Chuck Henny will present a program on Ospreys


Monthly Membership Meetings are held the first Monday of the month (except
July, August, & September). They are held at the Center for Urban
Horticulture on the University of Washington campus, 3501 NE 41st St.,
Seattle, and are open to all. The social begins at 7:00 p.m. and the program
starts at 7:30 p.m.

Directions: From I-5 take SR520 East. Take the Montlake Blvd NE exit and
turn North towards the University of Washington campus. Stay in right lane
and drive North on Montlake Blvd (over the bridge and past the stadium).
The road will curve to the right around the Montlake Fill and merges with NE
45th St. You will quickly approach a 5 way intersection. At the
intersection turn right onto Mary Gates Memorial Drive. The Center for
Urban Horticulture is 2 long blocks down on the right. There is plenty of
free parking at the facility. We use the main meeting room, the backside of
which faces the road. The following bus routes stop at NE 45th and Mary
Gates Memorial Drive: #25, 65, & 75. A map can be found on
http://depts.washington.edu/urbhort/html/info/contact.html.

== Michael Hobbs
== Washington Ornithological Society webmaster
== http://www.wos.org
== WOSWeb at wos.org