Please make plans to attend this Friday's Anne Arundel Bird Club's
meeting (8:00 p.m.) at Arlington Echo Environmental Education Center
in Crownsville, MD.

WHEN: Friday, November 7, 2008, 8 p.m.
WHAT: Goshawks: Driven by Their Prey!
WHO: David Brinker, Maryland Depart ment of Natural Resources Natural
Heritage Program.

Admired by people for its aggressiveness, courage, flight prowess, and
hunting ability long before the dark ages, the Northern Goshawk is an
ultimate avian forest predator in the northern hemisphere.  For
centuries they have been used for falconry throughout Europe and Asia.
 David Brinker will detail answers about this fascinating raptor and
answer the questions: What makes Goshawks tick?  Why are they
important to us? Are goshawks still increasing in the Central
Appalachians? Do breeding adults migrate? What drives the massive
goshawk incursions from Canada and might we experience once in the
near future?  Since 1977, David has studied Goshawks in both
Northeastern Wisconsin and the Central Appalachian Mountains.
Initiated in 1994, the Central Appalachian Goshawk Project has
monitored 90 Goshawk nesting attempts, banded 46 nesting adults, and
investigated winter movements of breeding adults from NW Pennsylvania
down the Appalachian Mountains through the high country of West
Virginia.  David will explain the ecology and natural history of this
incredible inhabitant of the forest around us.  In 1985 while at the
University of Maryland's Appalachian Environmental Laboratory David
worked on a survey and census of Maryland's colonial nesting waterbird
species.  He was the first, and to date probably the only, person to
radio track Black Skimmers.  In 1987 he discovered Mary land's first
Brown Pelican nest. Since then he has continued to monitor the
expansion of breeding pelicans into the Chesapeake Bay and has
coordinated the banding of over 13,500 Brown Pelicans. Since 1990,
David has worked for the Maryland Depart ment of Natural Resources
where he established their colonial nesting waterbird project and is
currently a regional ecolo gist for the MD DNR's Natural Heritage
Program.  David chaired the Maryland Ornitho logical Society's
Research Committee for 10 years.

See you on Friday night!

Good Birding,

Dan Haas
West Annapolis, MD


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