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Sue Ricciardi

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Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:39:37 +0000

Put this on your front burner!!!

The Anne Arundel County Bird Club hosts a fascinating presentation by Phil Davis, Birding the Bering Sea: Western Alaska Specialties and Asian Vagrants, at its meeting at 8:00 p.m. this Friday, October 3 at Arlington Echo Environmental Education Center, Crownsville, MD.  Here's the details: 

Friday, October 3, 2008, 8 p.m.  "Birding the Bering Sea: Western Alaska Specialties and Asian Vagrants." Phil Davis, Secretary, MD/DC Records Committee. 
Any avid ABA lister must sooner or later trek to the Bering Sea region to tick off Western Alaska specialties such as Red-legged Kittiwake, Whiskered Auklet, and Common Ringed Plover and, at the same time, hope to encounter some Asian vagrants along the way. Phil Davis recently completed his 12th trip to western Alaska and has compiled a dynamic multimedia presentation on the birds, birding locations, and key target species of Western Alaska.  His presentation introduces Alaska birding locations at Attu, Shemya, Adak, Dutch Harbor, the Pribilof Islands, Gambell, and Nome. In addition to the "common" seabirds of the Bering Sea (murres, puffins, guillemots), his presentation includes photos and discusses such species as Emperor Goose, Steller's, Spectacled, and King Eiders, Willow and Rock Ptarmigan, Arctic and Yellow-billed Loon, Red-faced Cormorant, Pacific Golden-Plover, Common Ringed Plover, Gray-tailed Tattler, Bristle-thighed Curlew, the Vega, Slaty-backed, Ivory, and Ross's Gu
ll, all three jaegers, Whiskered Auklet, Bluethroat, and Northern Wheatear.  Asian vagrants will be discussed such as Bean Goose, Smew, Lesser Sand Plover, Common Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Long-toed Stint, Siberian Stonechat and Siberian Rubythroat.  Phil has extensive birding experience  in western Alaska, where Phil has journeyed twelve times and has spent the equivalent of over six months in the and leads birding tours in the Western Alaskan Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea islands for High Lonesome BirdTours. Phil published an article in Birding magazine on the Western Alaska Red-faced Cormorant and is working on a more detailed monograph on the history and status of that species in the Northern Bering Sea region.  He has served as the Secretary of the MD/DC Records Committee for over fourteen years.

Sue Ricciardi for Program Chair Gerald Winegrad