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[Bristol-Birds] Fwd:IMBD Event in the GSMNP
- From: wwg <wwg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:38:12 -0400
FYI.
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:48:07 -0400
Subject: PLEASE POST AND FORWARD
From: Great Smoky Mountains - Tremont <Kent@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
Immediate Release Mail@xxxxxxxxx
Date: May 10, 2006 865/448-6709
Your help to freely distribute is appreciated ? Thank you
CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATORY BIRD DAY IN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
TWO MIST NETTING EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR THE PUBLIC
To celebrate and support migratory bird conservation, the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park will observe the annual International Migratory Bird
Day (IMBD) on Friday and Saturday, May 12 -13 with public educational
programs at two locations in the Park.
On Friday at Newfound Gap, on the
North Carolina ?Tennessee state line, Park Biologist Paul Super with the
Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center will set up mist nets from
8:00 a.m. to Noon and demonstrate how birds are carefully captured,
measured, banded, and released at research stations. Also, Ranger-led bird
walks will be held throughout the morning.
On Saturday at Sugarlands Visitor
Center, near Gatlinburg, TN, Charlie Muise, Senior Teacher/Naturalist from
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont will set up mist nets at 8:30 a.m.
and throughout the morning will demonstrate how birds are carefully captured,
measured, banded, and released at research stations. Also, Ranger-led bird
walks will be offered in the morning 9, 10, 11 and at Noon.
Materials on bird natural history, bird feeding, and how to help with bird
conservation will be distributed at both locations.
Both locations will offer up close observation of birds normally seen
at a fleeting glance. ?Compliments of Starbucks coffee shop at Five Oaks
shopping center in
Sevierville, TN, shade-grown coffee will be served to emphasize the
importance
of traditional coffee plantations that support over 150 species of birds ?
many of these migrants from the Smokies,? said Park Ranger Carey Jones,
coordinator of the event.
The 2006 IMBD theme is "The Boreal Forest: Bird Nursery of the North".
North America?s Boreal forest stretches from Alaska to Newfoundland, covering
1.5 billion acres ? a mosaic of forests, lakes, rivers, grasslands, bogs,
and tundra.
Nearly 50% of all North America?s bird species rely on the Boreal forest at
some point in their life cycle. In the Great Smokies, the 13,000 acres of
boreal forest, the Spruce-Fir, is the southernmost in the east, and thus the
southern limit of nesting habitat for species like Blackburnian Warbler and
Hermit Thrush. This slice of Canada also provides important resting grounds
for many migrating birds.
Bill Grigsby
Kingsport
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