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FW: Bird Banding Workshop



FYI -- see below, a great workshop for those interested in learning to band!


(Apologies if you've seen this posted before)

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Chris Canfield
Executive Director
NC State Office, National Audubon Society
410 Airport Rd.
Chapel Hill, NC  27514
919-929-3899/fax: 919-929-4599 
email: ccanfield@audubon.org 
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LEARN TO BAND BIRDS

When:  June 24-July 1, 2000

Where:  Howell Woods Environmental Learning Center, Four Oaks, NC (near
Smithfield)

What:  This course will be taught by The Institute for Bird Populations
(IBP) and 
is a seven-day, introductory course designed to provide participants with 
the skills necessary to become banding assistants in avian research and 
standardized monitoring programs like MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity 
and Survivorship).  Topics include operation of and removal of birds form 
mist nets, bird-handling skills, in-hand aging and sexing methods, and 
scoring and recording of data.  Lectures cover avian life histories, 
energetics, and molt; banding ethics; and the use of banding as a research 
and monitoring tool. Class size limited to 12. 

Contact:  To register, contact Dan Froehlich at Institute for Bird
Populations, CA, 415-663-1436, email: dfroehlich@birdpop.org. Further
information also available from James Sasser at Howell Woods Environmental
Learning Center at (919) 938-0115.

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