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[Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

TN-Birders:

Our own Andy Jones, from Kingsport, TN, will present two seminars at the
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences at Raleigh, Mar 15.  He is one of
three finalist for the position of senior curator of birds at the museum.
The seminars are part of the selection process.

Andy is a doctoral candidate at the Deptment of Ecology, Evolution, and
Behavior, University of Minnesota - St. Paul where he works with the bird
collection at the famous Bell Museum of Natural History.

He is a frequent participants in Christmas bird counts and other field work
in the Bristol area.  He recevied his B.S. degree from the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville.  There he was active with the Knoxville TOS Chapter.  
Andy is a graduate of Kingsport Dobyns-Bennett High School in Northeast
Tennessee.

The other finalist are Angelo Capparella, Associate Professor/Curator of
Birds, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University and
Christin Pruett, post-doctoral research associate, Department of Wildlife
and Fisheries Sciences,  Texas A&M University (College Station).

Each of the finalist will present one more hard-core scientific research,
and one
lighter fluffier general-public sort of talk.

On March 15 Andy will speak on "Things that go peep in the night: the
migration of North Carolina's birds" for his public type subject.  This
presentation explores nocturnal migratory routes and practices of some of
North Carolina's most interesting birds. His more serious scientific
presentation will be:  "Evolutionary History of Philippine Birds."

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' bird collection is one of the
three largest of its kind in the southeastern United States and is the only
collection of significant size in North Carolina. Its 20,000 specimens
represent 26 of 27 orders, 135 families, 598 genera, and 1,500 to 2,000 taxa. 

The museum possesses a notable collection of seabirds containing 2,300
skins, hundreds of skeletons, and an extensive number of fluid-preserved
birds, some of which can be found only in this collection. It is one of the
few museums to house a spread wing collection, which contains more than
1,000 specimens. The museum also has a significant Philippine bird
collection, several thousand egg sets, and about 1,000 voice recordings of
North Carolina birds. The museum exhibits two of the collection's rarest
specimens: the Carolina parakeet (left) and the passenger pigeon. 

The collection began with museum founders H.H. Brimley and C.S. Brimley in
the early 1900s. However, most of the specimens were acquired after 1975
under the leadership of Curator of Birds David Lee. In addition, the Museum
of Natural Sciences serves as the repository for deceased specimens of rare
and endangered birds from several institutions, including the North
Carolina, Baltimore and Philadelphia zoos and the Carolina Raptor Center.
Through cooperative agreements with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and
the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, the museum receives many valuable
salvage specimens from bird rehabilitators across North Carolina.

We wish Andy good luck.

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN


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