Tweets - the February meeting of the Washington Ornithological Society will
be this Monday, February 5th.

Charlie Wurster: Polar Seabird Adaptations to the Environment - Partial
convergent evolution of Arctic and Antarctic seabirds. Why Alcids in the
Arctic can fly and penguins in the Antarctic cannot. This is not a research
project, but rather a compilation of slides from two ecological cruises to
the Arctic and 3three to the Antarctic. The latter includes South Georgia,
one of the more scenic parts of the world. There are also birds other than
penguins and alcids. My slide sequence jumps back and forth between the two
polar regions for comparisons, and it is also possible, and maybe more
effective, to use dual projection. This allows a murre to be compared with a
penguin, for example, but dual projection also can get scrambled if the
sequence gets mixed up. cfwurster at yahoo.com

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.

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