*RMBO Seeks Award Nominations* * *
The Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) is seeking nominations for its annual Rich Levad Award. The award honors the memory of Rich, who made outstanding contributions to ornithology throughout his career as a teacher and as a staff member of the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Rich passed away last year. The award recognizes persons who, like Rich in his incredibly productive lifetime, have provided distinguished service to the ornithological community, made scholarly contributions to the field of ornithology and/or have enthused others about conserving birds and their habitats through sharing their personal knowledge and experience. Award nomination forms can be found at www.rmbo.org. The deadline for submission of all nominations is July 10. The award will be presented at the RMBO annual membership picnic in Brighton, Co, on Aug. 29. Nominations can be made by anyone and should highlight a nominee’s contributions to ornithology, conservation and/or the nominee’s success in sharing his or her knowledge of birds with others. Rich Levad taught English for more than 30 years at Central High School in Grand Junction, Co., and started working for RMBO after he retired from that position. He was a key player in starting RMBO’s Monitoring Colorado’s Birds program, which helped identify new breeding sites for such species as the Black Swift and Purple Martin, and he started Project Colony Watch, a volunteer-driven effort to gather data on 16 of Colorado’s colonial waterbird species. His book on the Black Swift is due to be published in the future. Rich was the first recipient of the award in his name, in 2006. Last year’s winner was Kim Potter, a biologist with the White River National Forest. Kim has discovered new Black Swift nesting sites in Colorado, banded more than her share of owls and rosy-finches in Colorado, and spent an amazing amount of time in the field studying birds (often with Rich himself). Kim continues to assist with several RMBO special species monitoring and research projects throughout the western U.S. Thank you, Jason Beason Special Monitoring Projects Coordinator Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Paonia, Colorado --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
