[BCNnet] COS Program: What's so great about a bird in the hand? (no sightings....except those that ended up in a mist net)

[Randi Doeker - Chicago]

“What’s so great about a bird in the hand?  Migrant bird mysteries revealed
through mist-netting in Lake Forest”

That’s the title of Caleb Gordon’s talk at the COS meeting next Monday
night.  Please join us!

September 17, 2007 - 7:00pm
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Speaker:  Caleb Gordon, Ph.D.
 
Join us to hear Dr. Caleb Gordon talk about birding and his work as the
founder of the Shaw Woods Avian Monitoring Project (SWAMP), a local
intensive bird netting/banding program dedicated to research, education, and
public outreach on migrant bird biology.   

There is more about Caleb at
http://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/gordon/ .

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is located on the northwest corner of
Fullerton Avenue and Cannon Drive in Lincoln Park in Chicago.

Driving directions: From Lake Shore Drive in either direction, exit at
Fullerton and travel west. Turn right/north at Cannon Drive (the first
light). The Notebaert Nature Museum is on your left and the main entrance
faces Cannon Drive. Look for street parking on either side of the street. 

By public transportation: The #77 bus stops at the museum's front door. The
#156 LaSalle bus drops passengers at Fullerton and Stockton, 0.2 miles west
of the Notebaert. The #22 Clark Street bus drops passengers at Fullerton and
Clark, 0.4 miles west of the museum.

Bike racks are available outside the museum

Submitted by Randi Doeker
Chicago Ornithological Society