PUGET SOUND SEABIRD WORKSHOP

Sponsored by the Slater Museum of Natural History at the
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
Hi Tweets,
I want to bring the following workshop to your attention. It will be taught by Dennis Paulson and includes both a class and field session. It is very useful for folks involved in the Puget Sound Seabird Survey.

Saturday, October 30, 2010, 9:00 am to 4:45 pm.

Would you like to know how to identify those birds swimming on Puget Sound or flying past in flocks when you are at the shore or riding the ferry? This day-long workshop is designed to acquaint participants with the resident and migrant seabirds of Puget Sound. It is oriented toward preparing citizen scientists to conduct seabird censuses, but all are welcome. The workshop will consist of a morning session discussing the identification and natural history of 43 species of sea ducks, loons, grebes, pelicans, cormorants, jaegers, gulls, terns, and alcids that occur regularly in the Sound and an afternoon field trip. Both photos and specimens will be used to illustrate the species.

The workshop will be held at the Slater Museum of Natural History on the University of Puget Sound campus in Tacoma.

Prerequisites: The ability to tell a loon from a grebe from a duck.

The instructor will be Dr. Dennis Paulson, Director Emeritus, Slater Museum and teacher/photographer extraordinaire. Dennis has been learning and teaching about the seabirds of this region for 40 years. This is truly an opportunity not to be missed.

Registration
The cost of the workshop is $50 for the general public and $25 for students and seniors - over 65.

To register, send your name(s), address, daytime phone number, and email address with a check made out to Slater Museum to:

Carol Curtin
Biology Department
University of Puget Sound
1500 N Warner #1088
Tacoma, WA 98416

Your enrollment will be confirmed by email as soon as your check is received and will include driving directions to the Museum. If the class is full when your check arrives we will return it.

For more information, contact Carol Curtin at ccurtin at ups.edu or (253) 879-2855.


Peter Wimberger
Tacoma, Slater Museum of Natural History