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Upcoming speakers:

September 1 Speaker: Birding in Ghana presented by Brian Elder, Phil Cram, and John Bargman.

October 6 Speaker: The Scientific Value of Bird Banding at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary – National and International Perspectives presented by Doug Collister.

Unless otherwise noted, Bird Study Group meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday of the month (except June, July & August) at 7:30pm, in the BioSciences (Biology, BI, on campus map) Room 211 at U of C, and are open to the public.

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The Bird Study Group organizes an extensive slate of field trips, meetings and species counts. All are welcome to participate. If anyone (or any group) would like to help with the provision of coffee and cookies, please let a member of the BSG Council know.

The month of May is Bird Studies Canada (BSC) funtastic Ballie Birdathon. Find out more at BSC to register.

May Species Counts 2010: Brooks Lake Newell May 22/23, and Milk River Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park May 29/30. These are joint events with Edmonton Nature Club. More information will be in the next Nature News, but the coordinator, Bob Parsons, advises people who wish to camp at Tillebrook Provincial Park to contact him regarding campsite reservations at 1-780-488-1344 (2 powered and 5 tenting sites are currently available). For maps, itineraries, contacts and more details see the pamphlet.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch project is underway for 2010. NestWatch welcomes data for all North American birds. Participants submit data about which kinds of birds are nesting, the number of eggs laid, dates eggs were laid, and the numbers of chicks hatched and fledged. Several NestCams are online for viewing on the Cornell website.

Birds Calgary - 2010 Bird Competition

The race is on, lets go birding!

2010 Birds Calgary Competition started January 1st! Make sure you are entered. See the registration page and browse the Competition website while you are at it.

New in December

City of Calgary Christmas count results!

The new webmaster for the Bird Study Group is Carole Hachey. Carole has been a member of Nature Calgary for several years and is also a volunteer with the Calgary Bird Banding Society.

Field trip data will no longer be added to the BSG web. The new field trips are on the Nature Calgary web at www.naturecalgary.com/field_trips.html.

Bird Study Group Contacts:

Andrew Hart 403-279-5209
Lenora Flynn
Malcolm McDonald
Brian Elder
Ray Woods
Brenda Baker
Webmaster: Carole Hachey

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