[EMAS] EMAS birdathon!
- From: Marianne Mooney <mooney.marianne@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: emas <emas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:03:29 -0400
*We’re excited once again to announce the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society’s
annual Birdathon!* This year’s Birdathon takes place in May when three
teams of expert birders compete to find the most bird species in one day to
raise money for conservation. While the teams have fun vying to out-do each
other, birding from pre-dawn to near midnight, the larger goal here is to
encourage you to donate. Some folks pick a team to support, pledging an
amount per species seen, and some folks choose to donate to the Birdathon
event as a whole.
This year we are funding a $1,000 scholarship award for a UNCAsheville
Environmental Biology student. The remaining donations will go to an
American Bird Conservancy project in Nicaragua to increase habitat
connectivity and to create shade-grown coffee systems for the benefit of
Golden-winged Warblers, Wood Thrush, and other neotropical migratory birds.
The Golden-winged Warbler is of particular concern as it has suffered one
of the steepest population declines of any songbird species in the past 45
years and is being considered for listing as an endangered species. Audubon
North Carolina is actively engaged in Golden-winged Warbler research and
conservation in Western North Carolina and also conducts and supports
efforts to survey wintering distribution of Golden-wings in Nicaragua.
We’re reaching out to our listserve birders to help us meet our fundraising
goal of $5,000. To donate, you can find a donation form attached. Thank you
so much for your support.
We welcome you to attend our special EMAS Birdathon program on Tuesday, May
17th. John Yow, author of *The Armchair Birder*, promises to give an
entertaining talk on his books, birds and birding. The program starts at 7
p.m. in the Reuter Center on the UNCAsheville campus. Please join us.
Marianne Mooney
EMAS secretary
*Golden-winged Warber Rick and Nora Bowers*
Attachment:
2016 Birdathon flyer_ETedit.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
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