Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:33:45 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Scott Weidensaul Lecture MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Fellow Ospreyers, A reminder about the Anne Arundel Bird Club's special lecture on = Thursday, March 4. Scott Weidensaul will give the Richard Heise, Jr. = Annual Wildlife Lecture, Living on the Wind: The World of Migratory = Birds, at Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis in the Blue Heron Room, = beginning at 8:00 p.m. A donation is requested at the door, with the = proceeds going to support the Maryland/DC Breeding Bird Atlas Project. = Please join us for this very special event. Living on the Wind: The World of Migratory Birds At any moment of every = day, migratory birds fill the skies of the western hemisphere, = journeying from the High Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, across the Atlantic = and Pacific, moving by day and night. Join naturalist and author Scott = Weidensaul on an exploration of how and why birds migrate, and the = conservation challenges that face them, based on his book, Living on the = Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds. The program ranges = from the doorstep of the Aleutians in Alaska, and the frozen edge of = Hudson Bay in Canada, through the rainforests of Central and South = America to the grassy pampas of Argentina, and is filled with the drama = and sweep of this remarkable phenomenon.=20 Scott Weidensaul is an inspiring and dynamic speaker and the author of = more than two dozen books on natural history, including Living on the = Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, which was one of three = finalists for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, and Mountains of = the Heart. His most recent book, The Ghost with Trembling Wings, about = the search for animals that may or may not be extinct, was called "by = turns harrowing and elegiac, thrilling and informative" by the New York = Times, while the Los Angles Times said he "ranks among an elite group of = writer-naturalists --John McPhee and David Quammen come to mind -- whose = straightforward eloquence elevates ecology to the level of philosophy."=20 Weidensaul writes frequently for such magazines as Audubon and = Smithsonian, and his writing and photography have appeared in dozens of = other publications. He has been involved in environmental education for = more than 25 years, and often guides natural history trips in the U.S. = and abroad. Weidensaul lives in the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania, = where he directs one of the largest saw-whet owl banding projects in the = East, as well as banding songbirds, hawks and hummingbirds. He is a = founding board member of the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art, and = serves on the board of Audubon Pennsylvania and other organizations. Sue Ricciardi Anne Arundel Bird Club =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================