This Friday, November 2, David Brinker, an expert on Northern Saw-whet Owls, will be speaking to the Anne Arundel Bird Club at 8:00 p.m. at Arlington Echo Environmental Education Center, Crownsville, MD. 
Come hear and see about the elusive Northern Saw-whet Owl from the first person to begin a banding program focused on Northern Saw-whet Owl autumn migration in Maryland. Dave now coordinates five banding stations in Maryland and West Virginia and since 1986 this group effort has netted over 6,600 migrant Northern Saw-whet Owls.

 PROJECT OWLNET: MIGRATION MONITORING OF NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS. 
David Brinker, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Heritage Program. 
        Friday, November 2, 2007, 8:00 p.m. at Arlington Echo Environmental Education Center, Crownsville, MD.

So you’ve never seen a Saw-whet Owl, one of the top ten birds on many birders want to see lists? This is your chance as Dave Brinker shows all about the most often banded owl in North America. He was the first person to begin a banding program focused on Northern Saw-whet Owl autumn migration in Maryland. Dave now coordinates five banding stations in Maryland and West Virginia and since 1986 this group effort has netted over 6,600 migrant Northern Saw-whet Owls.  In 1997 he founded Project Owlnet (www.ProjectOwlnet.org) an effort to encourage and coordinate monitoring of Northern Saw-whet Owl population trends using autumn mist netting at stations throughout the United States. As a result of Project Owlnet there are now over 95 banding stations netting migrant owls spread from coast to coast across North America. His presentation will delve deep into the world of the elusive Saw-whet Owl whose nocturnal life style, small size and preference for densely vegetated habitat make them d
ifficult to find and observe. Dave Brinker is a world-class naturalist and ornithologist who chaired the Maryland Ornithological Society's Research Committee for 10 years. At DNR over the last 17 years, Dave established the colonial nesting waterbird project and designed and directed Maryland's first effort to survey rails and other obligate marsh breeding birds. 


Sue Ricciardi for Gerald  W. Winegrad,  AABC Program Chair