[EBB Sightings] Western Field Ornithologists' meeting: San Mateo, CA, October 9-12

Bay Area Birders (with apologies for cross-posting):

Western Field Ornithologists is now soliciting papers for  
presentation at its 33rd Annual Meeting, to be held in San Mateo,  
California on October 9-12.

Papers should deal with birds in western North America; acceptable  
subjects include status and distribution, ecology and behavior, field  
identification, conservation, and techniques for field study, among  
other topics.  Whatever the subject, your material should be pitched  
at a level that's understandable to serious amateurs and professional  
field ornithologists alike. Presentations will last 15 minutes,  
including time for interaction with the audience -- a hallmark of WFO  
meetings.  If you are interested in making a presentation, contact  
Jay Withgott, withgott at comcast.net, or Debbie Van Dooremolen,  
Debbie.VanDooremolen at snwa.com, for more information.

If you are not already a member, WFO is an organization well worth  
joining.  Visit its website, http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/   There you can  
join WFO; learn more about its fine quarterly journal, Western Birds;  
find out how to order its recent book-length publications, Rare Birds  
of California, and California Bird Species of Special Concern;  
download the Call for Papers for the Annual Meeting; and reserve your  
lodging for the meeting.


Dave Quady
Berkeley, California
davequady at att.net