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Passing on some news from our neighbor.
Kathy =


The Knoxville Chapter of Tennessee Ornithological Society is pleased to a=
nnounce plans for the Spring 2003 meeting.

  We are fortunate to have an excellent speaker for this event.  Dr. Chan=
dler Robbins, an eminent ornithologist, is visiting from the US Geologic =
Service in Laurel, Maryland to speak with us.  Among his many credits, Dr=
=2E Robbins wrote the original Golden Guide to birds, and was instrumenta=
l in starting up Breeding Bird Surveys =96 the most
scientifically important citizen science project related to birds. =


  He has authored hundreds of scientific papers and helped shape many res=
earch methods in use around the world today.  Much of his effort in the l=
ast 2 decades has been to band neotropical migrants in their
Central American winter range.  The American Birding Association=92s Rese=
arch and Education award is named for his many years of service on both f=
ronts.  A more complete biography is below the meeting information. We si=
ncerely hope our birding friends in surrounding
states, as well as TOS members, will turn out for this special speaker.).=


  The meeting is May 2-4 at the Episcopal School of Knoxville (ESK) in We=
st Knoxville. The banquet, featuring Dr. Robbins=92 talk will be at the E=
SK dining hall, and catered by Gus=92s Catering on Saturday night.

  A silent auction to benefit the JB Owen Memorial Fund will becompleted =
during the banquet.  The first donation from the JB Owen fund recently wa=
s awarded to the Foothills Land Conservancy to aid in the protection of c=
ritical habitat.  Much of Dr. Robbins work has demonstrated that habitat =
loss is a primary cause for the decrease in numbers experienced by many s=
pecies of birds.

Field trips are expected to include: Great Smoky Mountains National Park,=
 Sharps Ridge, Kyker Bottoms, Kingston Steam Plant and Cove Lake.

Registration:  $7 if postmarked before April 10, $8 after.
Dinner/speaker $15 additional.
Please mail registration to Jerry Hadder, Treasurer, KTOS. 18 Rockingham =
Lane, Oak Ridge, TN 37830.  Checks can be made out to KTOS.

Motels:  20 rooms at two hotels on Lovell Road have been reserved for the=
 meeting.  In both cases, they are "reserved" under the TN Ornithological=
 Society.  Please mention that when you register.

Days Inn  966 5801  =

$44.95 + tax for double room, includes continental breakfast
After April 1 the rooms will be released =


Motel 6  675 7200
$36.99 + tax for double room, includes coffee only
After April 15th the rooms will be released.

To get to the meeting:  From Interstate 40 take the Lovell Road exit.
 Take Lovell Road north (take left off ramp if you come from I-40
west; take right off ramp if you come from the east) about =BD mile. =

Turn left on Gilbert Street.  ESK is down about a quarter mile on the rig=
ht. The address is 950 Episcopal School Way.


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Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
Townsend, TN  lat 35 deg, 38'23"  long 83 deg, 41'22"

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