To Ontario Birders Please consider joining The Hawk Migration Association of North America at There Membership Conference being held at the Detroit Airport Marriot Hotel From October 11-14,2018 All the details can be found on the HMANA website http/:www.hmana.org
Good Birding John HMANA Canadian Director Toronto, Ontario Begin forwarded message: > From: Jane Ferreyra <j...@hmana.org> > Date: May 4, 2018 at 2:34:14 PM EDT > To: John Barker <jjb103...@rogers.com> > Subject: Re: [Ontbirds] HMANA Call For Papers > > Hi John, > Thank you so much for this! Jerry Jourdan in Detroit Picked it up from there > and spread it further – on his Facebook and something else that I can’t > recall now, perhaps an email list. > Just wanted to touch base about professor bird: I haven’t written back yet – > yesterday was crazy and I went to do it today and I have no Internet. I’m > using my phone to email you right now so I might just sit here and type it up > and comfortably on my phone. Just wanted you to know I haven’t forgotten > about it and will cc you. Thanks so much! > Jane > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 3, 2018, at 1:04 AM, John Barker <jjb103...@rogers.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all >> As stated below received permission from the Ontbirds administrator to post. >> >> John >> >> HMANA Canadian Director >> Toronto, Ontario >> >> >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: JOHN BARKER via ONTBIRDS <birdalert@ontbirds.ca> >>> Date: May 3, 2018 at 12:57:37 AM EDT >>> To: Ontbirds <birdalert@ontbirds.ca> >>> Subject: [Ontbirds] HMANA Call For Papers >>> Reply-To: JOHN BARKER <jjb103...@rogers.com> >>> >>> Written by the HMANA Conference planning Committee >>> >>> Posted with permission of the Ontbirds Administrator >>> >>> Announcing the Hawk Migration Association of North America’s 2018 >>> Conference! >>> Soaring Toward the Future: New Challenges in Raptor Migration >>> October 12-14, 2018 >>> www.hmana.org/conference/detroit >>> >>> Conference Keynote Speakers >>> Kate Davis, author and founder of the nonprofit Raptors of the Rockies, is >>> our opening Keynote speaker. She will talk about her 30 years as a raptor >>> educator at schools throughout the West. Todd Katzner, research biologist, >>> will be our Saturday evening keynote speaker. He will talk about his >>> research with Eastern Golden Eagles and how little was known about their >>> migration ecology. >>> >>> Field trips are planned to the Detroit River Hawkwatch, Holiday Beach Bird >>> Observatory, Marshlands Museum, Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge >>> visitor’s centre, and more! Final program and registration details will be >>> available soon on www.hmana.org/conference/detroit >>> >>> The Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA) is actively seeking >>> program proposals for our 15th conference, “Soaring Toward the Future: New >>> Challenges in Raptor Migration,” especially on these topics of special >>> interest, including: >>> >>> Raptor population treads >>> Possible shifts in migration patterns: routes and timing >>> Raptor telemetry and technological advances >>> Conservation issues and threats facing raptors >>> Education initiatives, including young hawkwatchers >>> Challenges to sustaining and maintaining hawkwatch sites >>> Weather patterns and migration in a changing climate >>> Advances in raptor identification in the field >>> Raptor photography >>> >>> Key Dates >>> The deadline to submit a proposal is June 1st. You will be notified by June >>> 11,2018 if your proposal is chosen. >>> >>> Submission Requirements >>> In no more than 150 words, please summarize and describe your presentation >>> and indicate how it fits within the topics of special interested noted >>> above. If your proposal covers topics other than these, please describe why >>> you think it should be selected. If selected, this description will be >>> included in the conference program. Please describe the technical or >>> audio/visual needs for your presentation as well as its proposed length. We >>> anticipate that most presentations will brought to conference on flash >>> drives that will be loaded onto a PC laptop. >>> >>> Send your submission or direct any questions to br...@hmana.org. For all >>> general inquiries, please contact: j...@hmana.org >>> >>> HMANA’s Mission >>> Since 1974 HMANA has promoted and studied migratory patterns and behaviour >>> of diurnal birds of prey. HMANA has set the standard for recording species >>> data; www.HawkCount.org, a robust raptor monitoring database, and partnered >>> in analyzing count data to interpret raptor population treads with the >>> Raptor Population Index (RPI). Now our network of over 200 hawkwatches >>> across North America is more timely than ever before as field birders, >>> research scientists, banders and the hawkwatching public face serious >>> challenges to our work from urbanization, climate and migratory changes and >>> lack of nature awareness. Please visit www.hmana.org to learn more about >>> our work, and we hope you will join us in Detroit in October. >>> >>> >>> >>> JOHN BARKER >>> Etobicoke, Ontario >>> HMANA Director for Canada >>> jjb103...@rogers.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the >>> provincial birding organization. >>> Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca >>> For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit >>> http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup >>> Posting guidelines can be found at >>> http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide >>> Visit the OFO Facebook page >>> https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists >>> _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. 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