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Tuesday, January 4, 2000
Better-birder events give new year flying start
Local bird-ID classes set; Texas Ornithological Society meets in McAllen this week
The beginning of a new millennium seems to me the perfect time to resolve to become a better birder.
The fall/winter meeting of the Texas Ornithological Society (TOS) is in McAllen, January 6-8. Hosts for the meeting will be Friends of the Wildlife Corridor.
TOS is an organization that has been enriching the lives of birders since before I began birding in the '60s. This year an especially fine program has been planned by a board of directors headed by an ambitious set of officers. The McAllen meeting should be a memorable experience, with exceptional programs and field trips. How to get into the action? Send a $50 check or money order, payable to Laura Moore, Friends of the Wildlife Corridor, 509 N. Rose Ellen Circle, McAllen TX 78501. Note that the check is for the TOS meeting.
This registration includes membership for one year in TOS. Next act should be to make a hotel reservation at meeting headquarters, at the Best Inn, across from the Civic Center. Reservation phone is (800) 237-8466. To get convention rate, say you will be with the TOS.
With your membership in TOS comes a fringe benefit in the form of the organization's new quarterly magazine, "Texas Birds". The second issue, the Fall-Winter one, is even better than the first. The cover alone is worth the price. On the front cover is a photo of a camouflaged eastern screech owl in his hole in a mesquite tree. The back cover shows mud nests of cave swallows and cliff swallows together on the ceiling of an old porch. Sample copies of the magazine (containing registration forms) are available at Nature's Bird Center, at 5830 McArdle Road at Airline Road.
Also in January is the Advanced Bird Identification Series, which will be taught by Gene Blacklock beginning Jan. 17 at the Corpus Christi Botanical Gardens. The series will consist of 12 class sessions, usually Monday evenings, and six field trips running through mid- April. Tuition is $165 (or, for Botanical Gardens members, $149). The Gardens number is (361) 852-2100. Cq
If you live in the Rockport area, Blacklock will also teach classes in advanced birding there beginning Jan. 12. Registration should be sent to Friends of Connie Hagar c/o Cynthia Womack, P.O. Box 1421, Fulton, TX 78358., or phone (361) 729-6887.
I hope, by the time you read this column, you and I will have begun our New Millennium's Bird List with one hundred birds each.
Phyllis Yochem, a Corpus Christi
resident, has studied birds of Texas since 1960.
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