Richard Connors, Nashville, Nov. 22 please see attached request form one of our state non-game biologists, Pandy English: I originally needed this info last week. But I'll take all the information I can get. Please post it for me. I especially need info on the rarer shorebirds. Thank you very much! Pandy TOS Members, I am writing because I need your help to get future funding for rare birds in Tennessee. I am a member of the TWRA State Wildlife Grant team. We are in the process of writing a Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy to turn into the USFWS so that Tennessee will qualify for State Wildlife Grants in the future. SWGs are nongame grants for the conservation of rare animals. The first part of this plan is to develop a target list of the rare animals of Tennessee. The second part is to map those rare animals. Unfortunately, TWRA does not have elements of occurrence (lat/longs) for many of our bird species. If we can't map the occurrences of an animal it can't be a part of the plan. That's where the birders of Tennessee come in. We need your help. If possible, please send me 5 occurrences for any of the birds listed below. I need dates, location (lat/long), observer, etc. Here's the kicker, like all government projects, I need this information immediately - before next Wednesday. I know that's short notice and I apologize but please just give me as much information as possible. Thank you so much. Short-eared Owl Upland Sandpiper Red Knot Stilt Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Snowy Plover Piping Plover Wilson's Plover Northern Harrier Sedge Wren or Short-billed Marsh Wren Swallow-tailed Kite Whooping Crane Marbled Godwit Hudsonian Godwit Whimbrel American Golden Plover Red-breasted Nuthatch Buff-breasted Sandpiper Greater Prairie-chicken (This is a historical record) Andrea (Pandy) English Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Wildlife Diversity Coordinator State Wildlife Grants Program P.O. Box 41489 (615) 781-6626 Nashville, TN 37204 Andrea.English@xxxxxxxxxxx =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================