Update on the MOS World Series Team ! ! !

Norm Saunders (osprey@ARI.Net)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:16:44 -0500


New team name:    The Maryland Yellowthroats

New Team members: Hal Wierenga
                  Lynn Davidson
                  Mark Garland

New team writeup: The Maryland Ornithological Society (MOS) is sending 
a team to the 1998 World Series of Birding: from midnight to 
midnight, Saturday May 9, 1998.  See the back of this sheet for the 
history of the World Series.  The MOS team is co-captained by Hal 
Wierenga and Lynn Davidson in their attempt to find more species than 
any other team in Cape May County (Single New Jersey County 
category).  Hal and Lynn, Anne Arundel County residents, are 
life-long Maryland birders and Hal has led birding trips all over the 
country for MOS and for the Audubon Naturalist Society (ANS).  He has 
competed in five World Series on the National Geographic team and in 
five more on a team sponsored by Swarovski Optics, so we are indeed 
privileged to have him on our team! Lynn works in the Wildife and 
Heritage Division of the MD Department of Natural Resources and is a 
former Big Day record holder in Maryland.  She too has competed in 5 
prior World Series of Birding events, sponsored by the Swarovski 
Optics Company.  The third member of the team is Mark Garland, Senior 
Naturalist with the Audubon Naturalist Society.  This will be Mark 's 
first World Series competition but he is in charge of the ANS 
Extended Foray Program and has led field trips throughout the US and 
in the tropics of Central and South America.  The final member of the 
team hasn't yet been named.



And now, the part everyone is waiting for....(drum rolls, hush falls)

As of Monday, 13 April, 1998:

Number of pledges:        7
Cumulative pledge:    $3.90

Number of donations:      3
Donation amount:       $200



Please think now about your pledge to support the MOS team and the 
Research, Education, and Sanctuary programs of the MD Ornithological 
Society!


Here is the pledge form once again:

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                 MOS 1998 World Series of Birding
                            Pledge Form
 
 Name: _____________________________________________________
 Address: __________________________________________________
 City: ____________________  State: _______  Zip: __________
 Telephone: ______________  E-Mail Address: ________________
 
 ___   My  outright contribution of $_________ to  the  MOS  World
 Series of Birding Team is enclosed.
 
 ___   My pledge of $_________ per species seen (expected to range
 between 150 and 200 species, we will contact you with the  actual
 count by May 25).
 
                       THANK YOU!!!!!!
 
 
 Please mail this pledge form (and your check made payable to  the
 Maryland  Ornithological Society if you are  making  an  outright
 contribution)  to:   Norm  Saunders,  MOS  Vice  President,  1261
 Cavendish Drive, Colesville, MD  20905-7030.  Pledges may also be
 sent via e-mail to Norm at: osprey@ari.net