Here are creative ideas the
Roanoke Valley Bird Club has
come up with for the April 29-May 1
2016 Annual Meeting of the
Virginia Society of Ornithology
at Roanoke, VA.
The club will raffle tickets for one
person or a single couple to go
on an exclusive personal field trip
birding with the famous birder
Pete Dunne on Saturday morning
during the meeting.
Money raised from the event goes
to the club. The field trip is billed
as a fun morning of easy
birding. You can purchase as many
raffle tickets as you'd like.
Dunne is the speaker for the banquet
Saturday night. In his program,
"Small-Headed Flycatcher," Pete will
recount the rediscovery of a bird
believed extinct (if it ever existed at
all) whose discovery was claimed by
both Alexander Wilson and John
James Audubon, and this dispute lies
at the heart of the discord between
these twin pillars of American
Ornithology.
Pete will have a book signing at
the banquet, and Buteo Books will
have an assortment of his books
available for purchase, or you can
bring one from your own collection.
You can conveniently purchase
registrations, banquet and raffle tickets
online for the 2016 VSO Annual Meeting
using PayPal.
Dunne, Ambassador for New Jersey
Audubon, is retired Director of the Cape May
Bird Observatory, founder of the
World Series of Birding, contributor
to many major American birding
magazines, and author of more than
a dozen books on birds, birdwatching
and bird conservation, started birding
when he was 7 years old. In 2001, he
received the Roger Tory Peterson
Award from the American Birding
Association for lifetime achievement
in promoting the cause of birding.
Eric Stiles, president of New Jersey
Audubon, calls him a "birder, teacher,
natural history maven and master
chronicler of the natural world."
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
