Early bird registration deadline is today. You can register online at Cayugabirdclub.org. Read below, with permission of the administrator
Greetings all local birders!! I am writing to you as a member of the Cayuga Bird Club ( www.cayugabirdclub.org) to invite you to participate in the *67th New York State Ornithological Association's (NYSOA) annual meeting*, which will be held in Ithaca this year (Sept 19-21), hosted by the Cayuga Bird Club. NYSOA is the association of New York State bird clubs. The organization describes itself in the following way: "NYSOA is New York State's ornithological society. The objectives of NYSOA are to document the ornithology of New York State; to foster interest in and appreciation of birds; and to protect birds and their habitats." Meeting and registration information is available at the NYSOA website, www.nybirds.org and at the Cayuga Bird Club website, http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/nysoa . In addition, *the **Cayuga Bird Club is seeking people to present posters*. Posters focused on birds, including their conservation, basic biology, research and human involvement are invited. Submissions are especially encouraged from STUDENTS (High School to Graduate School), as well as professional and non-professional people interested in birds. *Meeting registration and Saturday banquet fees will be waived for STUDENT presenters*. At this time we have no more room for oral presentations, but lots of room for posters. We are extending our poster submission deadline to August 18. The poster/paper session is from 1:30 - 5 on Saturday Sept 20. We are asking presenters to be at their posters between 3-3:30 to answer questions, etc. Poster backing boards and pins for mounting the posters will be provided . Posters should be no larger than 4 feet tall by 3 ½ feet wide. For assistance in preparing posters, here is one of many useful websites http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters If interested in presenting, please submit the following by AUGUST 18, 2014 via email to Kevin McGowan [email protected]: A Word document including 1) an indication of poster or paper, 2) a title, 3) name(s) of authors and name and address of presenter, 4) affiliation(s), 5) student or non-student and 6) a short abstract describing your presentation. Please put "NYSOA 2014 PAPER_POSTER" in the subject line of the email. We hope there are students at ESF who might wish to share their research experiences in a friendly setting before an interested audience. If you could share this with others it would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]. FYI, Banquet Speaker info: Dr. Bridget Stutchbury, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science & Engineering, York University, Toronto, Ontario. Title:* Frequent Fliers: New Discoveries in Bird Migration * Dr. Stutchbury’s research involves using light level geo-locators to track individual songbirds to and from their tropical wintering grounds. Geo-locators are a critical new conservation tool enabling researchers to study wintering regions, and hence potential threats, such as tropical deforestation, where a given migratory bird population over-winte -- If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
