For those who don't get the Virginia listserv postings - this is a great opportunity to do needed survey work in some beautiful parts of VA! Caroline --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "WELDON, Aimee" <aweldon@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Virginia Bird" <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:06:20 -0400 Subject: [va-bird] volunteers for Golden-winged Warbler and Appalachian Sapsucker surveys Message-ID: <CB4985851F313A47B583FFC7DE4F9FE1095735AC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hello Virginia Birders, The Important Bird Areas (IBA) program is looking for volunteers to participate in Golden-winged Warbler or Appalachian Yellow-bellied Sapsucker surveys this spring. This is a great chance to get involved in the IBA program and to increase conservation efforts aimed at protecting these vulnerable species. We will be working with the US Forest Service to gather information about the exact breeding distribution of these species in Virginia, which are poorly known. This information will then be used to help us define new IBAs and to develop conservation plans. =20 Sapsucker surveys will take place in the Mt. Rogers area in SW Virginia on April 28th through the 30th (or whatever portion of this that you can make). We will be filling in known 'gaps' in our knowledge of Sapsucker distribution in this area. =20 Golden-winged Warbler surveys will take place in Highland, Bath, and potentially Allegheny Counties (depending on how many participants we have) on the weekend of June 4th. Margaret O'Bryan has graciously offered her farm as the headquarters for this event and a potluck BBQ will follow the survey on Saturday to reward everyone for their efforts. Both are beautiful areas and should be a lot of fun. Please let me know if you are interested in participating and I will provide more details to you then. I look forward to hearing from you all! Sincerely,=20 Aimee Weldon =20 Virginia IBA Coordinator P.O. Box 1089 Ashland, VA 23005 804-752-5850 (office) 804-370-3528 (cell) 804-752-5882 (fax) =20 You are subscribed to VA-BIRD. To post to this mailing list, simply send email to va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to va-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. You are subscribed to VA-Richmond-General. To unsubscribe, send email to va-richmond-general-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. To adjust other settings (vacation, digest, etc.) please visit, //www.freelists.org/list/va-richmond-general.