Subject: [Tweeters] COLLECT DATA WHICH PROTECTS SONGBIRD HABITATS!
Date: Jun 8 13:31:41 2017
From: Christine Southwick - clsouth at u.washington.edu


Weekender Bander Class Aug 18, 19, 20, 26 & 27, 2017

Training by Puget Sound Bird Observatory banders

PSBO President, Christine Southwick, will teach a beginner?s banding course at the Willow Creek Hatchery in Edmonds, Washington where on-site native plant gardens and the nearby Edmonds Marsh support a variety of resident and migrating birds.

Instruction follows the North American Banding Council (NABC) guidelines and includes

Five full days of classroom/field instruction.

This is an introductory course which covers netting and trapping techniques, safe removal of birds from mist nets, proper handling, processing (including biometrics, ageing, sexing, and skulling), data management, relations with the public, and the American Birding Association's Banders? Code of Ethics.

For more info go to: pugetsoundbirds.org

or email: contact at pugetsoundbirds.org or myself.

Christine Southwick
N Seattle/Shoreline
clsouthwick at q.com