[Bristol-Birds] Bristol Bird Club Banquet Report

Friday eveing, September 23rd, the Bristol Bird Club enjoyed the program, "Two Months of Winter in Costa Rica" by Andy Jones, the Sthphen M. Russell Graduate Lecturer at the club's annual banquet held at The Centre in Bristol, Tennessee. Jones, graduate of the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. candidate at the Bell Museum of Natural History, Department of Ecology at the University of Minnesota, studying under Dr. Robert Zink. The introduction was provided by Wallace Coffey, the curator of the Bristol Bird Club.

In the presentation, Mr. Jones described the locations that were visited during his 2-month stay in Costa RIca including the birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians seen and studied. His travels were part of a University of Minnesota program that was part of the Organization for Tropical Studies program. Jones visited all three OTS field stations, including La Selva Biological Station, a large and well-developed research station in the Caribbean lowlands with old growth and second growth forests, Las Cruces Biological Station located at 1,200 meters elevation in an old growth rain forest in the southern part of the country near the Panamanian border, and La Amistad National Park, and Palo Verde Biological Station is in the heart of Palo Verde National Park, located in dry forest in the northwest wit a seasonally wet (May to November) ecosystem includes freshwater marshes that attract an array of waterfowl. Other sites visited were a high elevation site with oak forest (Cerro de la Muerte), a coastal dry-moist forest and tidal lagoon (Cabo Blanco National Park) and a site that constitutes one of the largest and most diverse tracts of lowland Pacific wet forest remaining in Central America (Corcovado National Park). It was an excellent presentation that gave an insight to the varied habitats and associated flora and fauna in Costa Rica.

An excellent dinner was provided by the staff at the Centre. Those attending were Wallace and Carolyn Coffey, Zellie Earnest, Mary Jane Erwin, Bill & Janace Grigsby, Gail Preslar, Don Holt, Ron and Joan Harrington, Rick Knight, Pat McFarlane, Larry McDaniel and Janet Brown, John & Polly Moyle, Nancy Necessary, Chris O'Bryan , Bob, Ellen, & Charlie Parker, Judy Roach, Dave and Diana Worley, Barbara Wiseman, Rack and Carol Cross, and Mike Poe.

Thanks to those who helped with the arrangements, presentation materials, and door prizes: Janice Martin, Ron Harrington, Lynda Newman, Wallace Coffey, Dave and Diana Worley, Larry McDaniel, Dr. Janet Brown, Mike Poe.




Bill Grigsby
President, Bristol Bird Club
Kingsport, TN 

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