ANNUAL Planning Meeting
changed to

June 28, 2009
see below

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3rd year - NIGHTJAR SURVEY

Through June 7th  To read all the details and register a route, check out  http://www.ccb-wm.org/nightjar/protocols.htm

 

June 13 – Sat. morning Birding,
    Meet Sojourner Truth Park 8 a.m.

 

June   28 – ANNUAL PLANNING MTG.  Home of Patricia Yeager,
            5614  Bayers  Rd., Lake Elbo
             Meet 4 p.m.  Eat 6 p.m.

 

See Prairie Falcon for more info

 

 

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






 
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  Doppler Radar from Kansas City International Airport - covering eastern KS and Riley County

 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 Galleryby Dave Rintoul  

Christmas Bird Census  A History

Manhattan 60th Christmas Bird Census (CBC) 2008 Summary by Dave Rintoul 

Migratory Bird Count 2009 – Jim Throne

Kansas Birds by Month    Susan Adamchak   

Kansas Ornithological Society

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

Audubon Action Advisory

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

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