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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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