MIGRATORY BIRD DAY
MAY 10, 2008
contact Jim Throne
MAY 1
Board Meeting, 6 p.m.
Tom & MJ Morgan Home
MAY 10
Migratory Bird Day
contact Jim Throne,
jim.throne@sbcglobal.net
SAVE THE DAY!
JUNE 1 Annual Planning Meeting
Home of
Patricia Yeager,
3 p.m. 5614 Bayers Hill, Lake Elbo
NFHAS Newsletter: Current issue
Prairie Falcon
Articles about local
birds, plants,
skywatching, and other things of interest
to inquiring minds.
Prairie Falcon
Website
Chapter Activities,
Schedule of Meetings and Field Trips,
Current Conservation Issues,
Officers and Committees
Back issues of the
Prairie Falcon
Available as pdf file
Doppler Radar from Kansas City International Airport - covering
eastern KS and Riley County
NEW: check out this website for FLEDGLING BIRDERS
Northeast Park
Brochure of Park and Cecil Best Trail (You
may need to upgrade your Acrobat Reader to view this pdf file)
Northeast Park - Bridge Dedication
Kansas Rare Bird Photo Gallery - by Dave Rintoul
Christmas Bird Census A History
Manhattan 59th Christmas Bird Census (CBC)
2007 Summary by Dave Rintoul
Kansas Birds by Month
Susan Adamchak
Action Alert Center National Audubon Society - Conservation and Wildlife Issues on National Level.
MAPS Monitoring Avian Productivity and survivorship program, coordinated by Institute for Bird Populations. Involves mist-netting and banding birds at nearby Ft. Riley, KS.
National Audubon Chapter Services Office
Project Feeder Watch - Citizen Science from Cornell University
Bird of the Week - a new feature from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
OTHER ISSUES OF INTEREST
Operation Crane Watch - Track Sandhill cranes with satellite transmitters as they migrate from Siberia to Mexico!
Friends of Quivira - A newly formed support group for our adopted refuge!
Teaming with Wildlife - A new initiative for funding non-game wildlife programs. Endorsed by the NFHAS and the Kansas Audubon Council
Cats Indoors - A new initiative from the American Bird Conservancy, designed to help stop the killing of BILLIONS of North American birds by outdoor cats every year. Also see Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation website.
LISTSERV GROUPS
Kansas Birding & Kansas Conservation Issues - Listservs for electronic discussions. Along-standing Internet tradition, listserv groups are subscription-only (but it is easy and free to subscribe) arenas for discussion of lots of relevant, and sometimes irrelevant (but still interesting) issues and ideas.
Information on KSCONS-L An electronic discussion group for Kansas Conservation Issues
Information on KSBIRD-L An electronic discussion group for folks interested in the birds of Kansas
BirdChat - the longest-running global list for birders, founded in 1991 and still going strong.
RARE BIRD ALERT HOTLINES & WEATHER
Most recent update - Kansas (statewide) RBA: Click here to see how rare it is, or report it to the Kansas Bird Records Committee using our electronic report form. At the same site you can download and print a paper version of the Kansas Bird Record Committee report form (in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, or ascii text formats). You will need the Adobe Acrobat software, available free of charge, in order to view the PDF documents after downloading them. Or, alternatively, you can contact the secretary of the Kansas Bird Record Committee.
Most recent update - Missouri (statewide) RBA: 573-445-9115
Most recent update - Nebraska (statewide) RBA: 402-292-5325
Most recent update - Oklahoma (statewide) RBA: (918) 669-6646