[ESSP] Hampshire Bird Club(s), March 3 & 14 events

[Steve Roof]

Two Upcoming Bird events:

1) Thursday March 3, 7:30 p.m. Raptor Encounter. FPH West Lecture Hall --Tom
Ricardi is coming with his birds of prey! Don't miss it.

2) "Eating at the Interface of Water and Land: the evolution of feeding
systems in aquatic birds."  Hampshire Bird Club Monday, March 14 at 7:30
pm (see below)

A program by Margaret  Rubega, Connecticut State
Ornithologist, and Assistant Professor, Dept. Ecology  & Evolutionary Biology ,
UConn.

Aquatic birds  are faced with an interesting set of problems while trying to
secure food in a  dense, fluid medium like water.  Shorebirds are particularly
interesting because they display an array of  lifestyles that vary from
almost fully aquatic to completely land-based. This  talk will address the
interaction of form and function in the feeding systems of  aquatic birds, with
a focus on phalaropes.

Join us Monday, March 14 at 7:30 pm,  Immanuel  Lutheran  Church, 867  N.
Pleasant St., Amherst,  MA at 7:30PM.  Meetings are free; the public is welcome.
For further information: (413) 549-1768 or hampshirebirdclub.org

Please announce or post to your club, class, or web site.  Thank you.  Jan
(Hampshire Bird Club)

-Dhyana Miller - dcm02 at hampshire.edu