Who: Aiken Audubon will host Bill Maynard When: Wednesday, October 20 (that's today) Time: 6:30 p.m. doors open; 7:00 p.m. program begin Where: Colorado Division of Wildlife, 4255 Sinton Road, Colorado Springs (Please use the rear entrance, where the classrooms are located)
Flycatchers Demystified Bill Maynard will entertain and educate us with his program, "Flycatchers Demystified." Even experienced birders will benefit from his helpful hints on identifying all of Colorado’s flycatchers by both sight and sound. Bill moved to Colorado in the ‘80s and founded a wildlife art gallery with his sister-in-law, Virginia. A real bird job, an avian analyst variability research project with Dr. Jared Verner, led him to California with its endemic birds; to Mt. Graham, Arizona, surveying for the endangered Mt. Graham red squirrel, and more birds; on to New Mexico, coordinating the statewide search for the endangered Southwest Willow Flycatcher for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish; back to Colorado, as a biologist on a large military reservation, and then on to the American Birding Association, as Field Programs Manager. Bill is currently editor of "Winging It," the Association’s publication. Bill’s main interests involve learning more about bird taxonomy and vocalizations, the finer points of bird identification, digiscoping, and travel anywhere; but especially to The Bird Continent. Knowing next to nothing about seabirds, Bill hopes to one day go on multi-day pelagics, following ocean wanderers across an unexplored frontier. Bill is a Colorado Field Ornithologists’ Bird Records Committee member, plus he can perform a mean rendition of a Lesser Prairie-Chicken’s lek display; thankfully, failing miserably at the female’s vocal "bubbling, hooting wamp, wodum, wodum" and other wild clucking, with exaggerated jumps and strutting of the male. Hope to see you there! Christine A. Bucher Secretary, Aiken Audubon Society Perched on the edge of Palmer Park, Colorado Springs -- 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.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
