> The Anne Arundel Bird Club meeting this coming Friday, October 7 at 8:00 p.m. will feature Art McMorris, Coordinator, Peregrine Falcon Recovery and Management Program for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. He will speak on his many years working on Peregrine Falcon recovery and monitoring and his
>  PEREGRINE FALCONS: THE SAGA OF RECOVERY will be an uplifting success story and great natural history of perhaps the world's fastest creature.
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> Please attend and spread the word on the Peregrine Falcon talk as it will be a great story on this amazing bird of prey.  
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> FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011. PEREGRINE FALCONS: THE SAGA OF RECOVERY. Art McMorris, Coordinator, Peregrine Falcon Recovery and Management Program for the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
> After being completely extirpated from eastern North America, Peregrine Falcons have made a remarkable comeback. Art will talk about the natural history of Peregrine Falcons, the population history in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North America, the reasons for the population decline, and the re-introduction and management efforts that have led to one of the most remarkable recoveries of any endangered species anywhere. Come and hear about these magnificent birds, the fastest animals on earth. Art fell in love with the natural world practically from the moment he was able to stand up and walk. After a childhood of hiking, fishing, collecting insects and tadpoles and studying the stars and planets, he moved on to a B.A. and Ph.D. in biology and then spent his first career, ironically, studying molecules indoors. Now retired from molecular neuroscience, he has moved back outdoors where not only does he coordinate the Pennsylvania Peregrine Falcon Recovery and Management Program but he also works on IBA population studies, the PA Breeding Bird Atlas, Christmas Bird Counts, USGS Breeding Bird Survey, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Project, and authors numerous bird-related papers such as Owl Feet and Hunting Methods (2005). Art is Vice President and a Fellow of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club.

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