Subject: [Tweeters] WOS Meeting in Seattle on Monday
Date: Mar 3 10:13:24 2005
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at verizon.net


Tweets - the Washington Ornithological Society would like to announce their
March meeting in Seattle:

Monday, March 7th - Sievert Rohwer - The Burke Museum is currently
undertaking an extensive study tracking local birds as they migrate to the
American Southwest and Mexico. The study has fascinating implications on
the differences in life-history strategies between east and west-coast North
American birds, which to some extent have evolved different behaviors
because of differences in climate and habitat. It also has implications for
speciation because these strategies separate populations in space and time.

Sievert Rohwer grew up in the deep south where he spent most of his
childhood in the woods catching snakes. "Glen Woolfenden was my
undergraduate mentor and the only field biologist at the University of South
Florida in the 60's, so I switched to studying birds." Rohwer came to
Seattle in 1972, jointly appointed in Zoology and as Curator of Birds at the
Burke Museum.

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