FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Denver Holt will be the KOS Fall Meeting Speaker

["Kathy Caminiti" <krzy4owls@xxxxxxxx>]

Great news everyone !  
And the public is certainly invited!

Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute in Montana, will be the guest speaker 
on Saturday night, September 28, 2002 during the Kentucky Ornithological 
Society's weekend meeting at Natural Bridge State Resort Park.  

Denver Holt is a wildlife researcher with many interests. In particular, his 
research focuses on owls and their ecology. He has been researching owls since 
1978, and has published numerous papers in both scientific and natural history 
journals. He is founder and president of the Owl Research Institute in 
Missoula, Montana, and has conducted owl related research in the U.S., Mexico, 
and Costa Rica. Within the U.S., he has worked in Alaska, Massachusetts, and 
Montana. Among other research, Denver has worked on gulls, terns, raptors, and 
small mammals. He is an avid and inquisitive outdoors person with other 
interests that include insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, plant 
identification, and geology.

This fall, 2002, (date, TBA) National Geographic Explorer Television Program 
will feature a program, "Owls:Silent Hunters", on the Owl Research Institute's 
project on Snowy owls in Barrow Alaska.  National Geographic magazine will also 
have a documentary on this. 

Last October, Denver gave a talk on Adaptations of Owls at the Cape May Birding 
Festival in Cape May, New Jersey and last November, he gave an informative talk 
on Snowy Owls at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival in Harlingen, Texas.

To read more about The Owl Research Institute, go to www.owlinstitute.org .

Denver Holt also co-authored the children's science book "Owls: Whoo are 
They?".  http://www.owlinstitute.org/webshop/frames.html

In addition, he is a Victor Emanuel Tour Leader .
You can see the trips he leads at http://www.ventbird.com/db/index.ihtml , then 
click on Denver Holt under Leader search.  

We are very fortunate to have obtained him as a speaker for our meeting and we 
look forward to meeting him!  

We're busy putting together the rest of the meeting agenda and will let you 
know the rest of the details as soon as possible.  

We hope you can join us at this fall meeting of the Ky. Ornithological Society 
on Friday-Sunday, September 27-29, 2002 at the Natural Bridge State Resort Park 
in beautiful Powell County. 

Lodging information is listed on the bottom of this email.

Good Birding Always !
Kathy Caminiti, President
Hap Chambers, Vice President    


Accommodations:
Thirty-seven rooms and two cottages are being held at the Natural Bridge Lodge 
for this KOS meeting.

NOTE:  Natural Bridge will only block these accommodations for KOS until August 
1, 2002 and then they will release the remaining rooms to the public at that 
time.  

Natural Bridge lodge rooms are $71.00 per night single occupancy/$81.00 double 
occupancy; two-bedroom cottages are $110.00 per night; two campgrounds provide 
95 sites with utilities.  You can make reservations by calling 800/325-1710.  

Alternative lodging is available at the nearby Lil Abner Motel ($49.05 
single/$54.50 double) by calling  606/663-5384.

Make your reservations early to insure your lodging.  

 

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