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Southwest Wings Birding Festival, August 8-11, 2001.
This popular event is held each year in Sierra Vista. Various daylong
and half-day field trips will be conducted to such places as the Chiricahua
Mountains, Huachuca Mountains, Patagonia Area, Ramsey Canyon and Sulphur
Springs Valley. Over 100 species of birds are normally recorded during
the festival. Call Southwest Wings, Inc. at 800-946-4777 or write PO
Box 3432, Sierra Vista, AZ 85636-3432 for information and reservations.
The ABA Regional Conference will be held in Santa Maria, CA on
September 10-14, 2001. Midway between Morro Bay and Santa Barbara,
near the central California coast, Santa Maria offers easy access to
habitats including coastal bays and estuaries, rocky shoreline, chaparral
scrub, semi-desert, and several types of woodland. For information
call 800/850-2473, ext., 233.
Hassayampa Preserve will follow a summer schedule tht began May 15 and
will continue until September 15. They will only be open Friday,
Saturda and Sunday from 8-5.
Audubon Adventures: Give the gift of discovery and
share your love of the environment. The program is designated for
students in grades 4-6. Introduce an entire classroom (up to 32
students) to the wonders of nature for just $35 (plus shipping charges).
You can select your favorite school or let Audubon do it for you. For
orders: call 800/813-5037.
Maricopa Audubon T-Shirts are available for sale at member
meetings or by mail. They feature a Barn Owl primary flight feather
overshadowing the common and Latin names of birds found in Maricopa County.
Short
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sleeved shirts are available in Iris, Brick, Charcoal and Willow, large
or XL for $15.00. Long-sleeved shirts are available in Charcoal, Med, Large
or XL, for $20.00. Add $4.00 shipping and handling for the first shirt,
$1.50 for each additional shirt. Please allow 3 weeks for delivery. Make
checks out to: Maricopa Audubon Society, 1128 E Geneva Dr., Tempe, AZ 85282.
For info, contact Laurie Nessel at (480) 968-5614 or
laurienessel@hotmail.com. Look for a future posting of the shirts on our
website:
www.maricopaaudubon.org.
A Birding Guide to Reno and Beyond is published by the Lahontan
Audubon Society of Reno, NV. It covers 20 significant birding
destinations and 25 side trips within an 80-mile radius of Reno. All
the proceeds from the sale of the guide benefit the conservation and
education projects of Lahontan Audubon Society. The price is $10.00
and is available through ABA Sales or you can purchase it directly from
Lahontan (total with postage is $11.50). Contact Lucie Clark at
luclark@sierra.net or 775/831-2909.
Woodpecker Damage: A Simple Solution to a Common Problem is a new 8
page booklet available from Texas Parks and Wildlife which promises an
inexpensive and successful way of dealing with woodpecker damage to man-made
structures, and ways that man and woodpecker can coexist. If you would
like a free copy of this booklet, send a 6x9 clasp envelope, addressed to
yourself and including $.55 postage to Clifford E Shackelford, Nongame
Ornithologist, Texas Parks and Wildlife, 3000 IH 35 South, Suite 100,
Austin, TX 78704. Fold the larger envelope inside a legal envelope and
put "woodpecker damage" on the outside.
Contacting elected officials. Look in this issue for contact
names and addresses.
Our web site www.maricopaaudubon.org has a web master, Michell Fulton. She is keeping it up to date
for us. If you have access to the web, please check out our site.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to Cliff Drowley for originally getting us
up and running on the web.
Do you have an interesting story to tell about birding? Please
forward your submissions
to the Editor—Deva Burns. Check the back page for address/e-mail.
Actually, attaching an article to an e-mail is the absolute easiest way to
submit an article. If you have pictures or slides, you do need to send
those to me directly. Remember, all articles may not be published the
first month after receipt.
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