Subject: [Tweeters] WOS meeting tonight in Seattle
Date: Nov 1 11:39:25 2004
From: Michael Hobbs - hummer at isomedia.com


Tweets - just a reminder that the November meeting of the Washington
Ornithological Society will be tonight, Monday, November 1, at the Center
for Urban Horticulture in Seattle. Directions are at the bottom of the
message.

This is our usual date and is contrary to the date (Nov 8th) published in
the WOSNews.

Speaker: Julia Parrish - Why Common Murres are Uncommon in NW

Over the years Julia Parrish's work on Tatoosh Island has covered many thing
all of which fit into a evolving picture of what provokes change in the
Common Murre population on Tatoosh, and perhaps more broadly in Washington
and the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Julia Parrish and her students and research assistants have studied the
factors affecting murre population health on Tatoosh Island, the largest
stable breeding colony in Washington waters. The emerging picture is a
complex one, suggesting that murres are sensitive to many different factors,
both natural and anthropogenic. Predation, competition, habitat change, oil
spills, fishery bycatch, and even climate change are reflected in murre
reproduction and survival. In this regard, murres are truly a coastal canary
in a coalmine, a sentinel of marine ecosystem health in Washington waters.


WOS 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.