Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:26:54 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: The Cummins' Casa Subject: VA Falcons Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I'm forwarding the information below from Dr. Bryan D. Watts. Please respond directly to him at bjpaxt@WM.EDU . The Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary has launched the VAFALCONS website. This site attempts to bring together existing information on the Virginia breeding population of Peregrine Falcons. In addition to natural history, management, and monitoring information, the site hosts the tracking of 18 young falcons (deployment of transmitters is in progress) from 2002 and Caroline Dare (one of the falcons from the 2001 cohort). The FalconTrak portion of the website allows the user to interact with a tracking database via a dynamic map interface. It is our hope that providing this resource will entice the public to become more involved in the ongoing research, monitoring, and management of this vulnerable population. VAFALCONS is accessible on the internet by going to the Center's home page http://www.ccb-wm.org and clicking on a fastlink to VAFALCONS or by going directly to VAFALCONS http://fsweb.wm.edu/ccb/vafalcons/falconhome.cfm . Dr. Bryan D. Watts, Director Center for Conservation Biology College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =======================================================================