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Free Shorebird lecture at Zoo

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Gail Mackiernan

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Gail Mackiernan

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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:15:03 -0500

This looks to be of interest to Maryland birders:

Gail Mackiernan, Colesville, MD

April 22 at 7 p.m.

Are We in Time? The Dramatic Decline of Shorebirds on the Delaware Bay and
the Race to Rescue Them
Location: National Zoo Visitor Center Auditorium

In honor of International Migratory Bird Day, the Zoo is hosting a public
lecture by shorebird biologist Larry Niles who will talk about one of the
world's most magnificent and most imperiled wildlife spectacles - the spring
migration of shorebirds through Delaware Bay.

In an amazing example of synchronicity in nature, more than a million
shorebirds descend upon Delaware Bay each spring as what was once the
world's largest concentration of horseshoe crabs comes to shore to spawn.
The birds arrive thin and exhausted from what, for some, has been a non-stop
four-day flight from South America.

Larry Niles will discuss the work he has done over the past 20 years,
traversing the hemisphere  to better understand the biology and life history
of these birds and to highlight the extraordinary importance of the Delaware
Bay to their survival. He will also talk about the current efforts to
restore the Bay and end with some straight talk about the politics of
conservation and what the public can do to help.

Find out more and RSVP for this free lecture.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ActivitiesAndEvents/Lectures/rsvp.cfm

Getting to the Zoo 

Take public transportation to the Zoo and enter through the Connecticut
Avenue pedestrian entrance, or drive through the Connecticut Avenue vehicle
entrance and park in Lot A.