BIRDCHAT for Wednesday, April 9, 2008

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Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Yucatan_Birding_Festival_-_please_visit_this_year!?=
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tim_Boucher?= <tboucher(AT)GEOCITIES.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 2008 4:59am

I've just heard from Barbara MacKinnon de Montes, whose incredible
conservation work on the Yucatan peninsula are inspirational, that the Sixth
Annual Yucatan Birding Festival will be held 6th Yucatan Bird Festival, Nov.
13 – 16 (week before Thanksgiving). 

Based in and around the wonderful city of Merida (great food, shopping, and
culture for the nonbirding partners), the festival has been a great way to
boost support for conservation along the northern coast of the Yucatan
peninsula - an incredibly important region for neotropical migrants and
resident birds. 

Barbara says that if they don't get more international participation this
year, the government may not be willing to support the festival in the future. 

Tim and I were down there last year, though not for the festival. It is an
incredibly wonderful area, with Mayan ruins everywhere. The birding was
great, the ruins were really ruined, and we had the best meal of our lives -
by a wide margin - at a restaurant 10 minutes out of Merida. 

So let's all make the big sacrifice and go birding in the Yucatan this
November!

Ellen Paul
Chevy Chase, MD 

(Please forward this message to your local birding lists if they permit
messages about birding outside the local area)

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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tim_Boucher?= <tboucher(AT)GEOCITIES.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 2008 8:31am

Sorry - I forgot to include logistical details and contact info.

This is what is currently available:

http://www.yucatantoday.com/events/eng-bird-festival.htm

As more info becomes available, I will post notices here. 

I should also mention that Merida is quite inexpensive. We had a nice,
clean, comfortable room in a charming and romantic hotel right in the center
of the city, within easy walking distance of everything, and we paid $45 per
night. Except for that "meal of a lifetime" that I mentioned, food was also
quite inexpensive. 

I hope Chatters will help Barbara make this a blow-out year!

Ellen Paul
Chevy Chase, MD

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Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Yucatan_Birding_Festival_-_please_visit_this_year!?=
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tim_Boucher?= <tboucher(AT)GEOCITIES.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 2008 8:41am

Duh. The link was right at the bottom of the poster:

http://www.yucatanbirds.org.mx/ingles/inicio.php

So those of you who are active in Audubon chapters and state offices: 

Why not make this an Audubon challenge and send one (or more) teams from
every Audubon chapter or office?

Ellen Paul
Chevy Chase, MD

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Subject: Bird Chat Administrator/Coordinator?
From: DANIEL EDELSTEIN <edelstein(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 9 Apr 2008 9:33am

Sorry, but I'm wondering how to send a message to the Bird Chat
Administrator/Coordinator.

Can anyone please share?

Thanks, 

Daniel Edelstein

Novato, CA (Bay Area)

&

Ellison Bay, WI

http://www.warblerwatch.com 

http://warblerwatch.blogspot.com (my blog devoted to wood-warblers)

12 Kingfisher Court
Novato, CA 94949-6628 USA
415-382-1827 (voice & DSL fax)

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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tim_Boucher?= <tboucher(AT)GEOCITIES.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 2008 12:26pm

That info, plus lots of other useful info, can be found here:

http://www.k-state.edu/audubon/chatguidelines.html

Ellen Paul
Chevy Chase, MD 

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Subject: 
From: Rob Fergus <birdchaser(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 9 Apr 2008 4:31pm

Just for giggles, what if Howard Cosell were to cover birding as a sport?  One
scenario here:

http://birdchaser.blogspot.com/2008/04/cosell-interview-with-birdchaser.html

Rob Fergus                     
Perkasie, Bucks, Pennsylvania
http://birdchaser.blogspot.com

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Subject: Re: 
From: "Steve Moore" <steve(AT)birdwatchradio.com>
Date: 9 Apr 2008 5:38pm

I sure would love to hear the audio of this.... :)

Steve

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From: "Rob Fergus" <birdchaser(AT)HOTMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:31 PM
Subject: [BIRDCHAT]

Just for giggles, what if Howard Cosell were to cover birding as a sport? 
One scenario here:

http://birdchaser.blogspot.com/2008/04/cosell-interview-with-birdchaser.html

Rob Fergus
Perkasie, Bucks, Pennsylvania
http://birdchaser.blogspot.com

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