----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hobbs" <birdmarymoor at verizon.net>
To: "Tweeters (E-mail)" <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:07 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] WOS Meeting in Seattle on Monday, November 6


> Tweets - the November meeting of the Washington Ornithological Society
> will
> be this Monday, the 6th:
>
> Monday, November 6th - Burke Research. This meeting's subject will be
> exploring some of the genetic work the Burke Museum at the UW is
> supporting,
> and what insights this gives us into bird speciation, taxonomy, and
> identification. Ongoing work into understanding the hybrid zone dynamics
> of
> Hermit and Townsend's Warblers will be discussed. The Burke's
> participation
> in the All Birds Barcoding Initiative - an international collaboration to
> create a DNA sequence database for as many bird species in the world as
> possible. This will be a multi-year effort, with the Burke supplying ca.
> 5000 tissues from more than 2000 species of birds.
>
> 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
>
> "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
> certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts" - Bertrand
> Russell
>
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