FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Dr. John Moyle named 1996 Birder of the Year

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

    Dr. John Moyle, an active member of the Bristol Bird Club, has been named 
the 1996 Birder of the Year.  The award was presented Friday evening at the BBC 
annual Christmas Party held in Kingsport, TN.

    Moyle organized and is guided a group from the BBC and the region on a 
filed trip to Trinidad and Tobago this past July.  Dr. Moyle, who is on the 
board of directors of the famous Asa Wright center which is a world-class 
natural history destination for students of tropical ecology and of particular 
interest to birders. In 1999, AUDUBON magazine selected the Centre as one of 
just nine eco-lodges worldwide that it  considered one of "The World's Ultimate 
Outposts."

    He had an active year birding and made a second trip to Trinidad this year 
as well as birded South Carolina and Georgia and achieved the American Birding 
Association's threshold state list in South Carolina.

    He took part in area Christmas Bird Counts during the year, presented a 
program to the BBC, regularly birded in the region and monthly posted his 
birding results to this list.  He and his wife Polly also hosted the BBC annual 
Christmas Party at his home in Kingsport.

    Their son, Dr. Robert Moyle, is an ornithology graduate from LSU and was 
employed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York before taking a 
faculty position at the University of Kansas.