[SBB] SCVAS General Meeting

[Santa Clara Valley Audubon <[[email protected]]>]

> 	General Meeting April 18th 2007
	The Birds and the Bees-Understanding the changes that take place
that allow birds to breed and continue.
with Lisa Myers


Palo Alto Art Center
Newell and Embarcadero  Rd,
Doors open 7:30pm; program 8:00pm

> Lisa Myers has stepped up to the plate to help with
> tonight's general meeting.  Lisa has been teaching
> birding classes at SCVAS for years and has a class
> starting this next Monday for us on the birds and
> bees of bird reporduction.  With spring in the air ths
> timing is perfect.  She has presented on this topic
> throughout the bay area and will be there tonight to
> help us out.
>
> As birdwatchers we spend much of our time learning the
> different species and their field marks with the
> goal to go out and find our target birds in the field.
> But one bird topic we seldom discuss centers around the
> topic of sex. While most of us fully appreciate the
> many breeding plumages that help us identify a
> species, we often don't understand the other changes
> that take place that allow birds to breed and
> continue their species. This program we'll look at this
> topic, a topic that many birders are too shy to discuss.
> How do the different birds continue their species?  Some
> males have many different mates, but did you know
> that some females do too? Some birds are considered
> “promiscuous” while others breed for life. Who helps
> with the child rearing and who leaves town? There
> are all kinds of fancy words to describe the details
> behind avian procreation and copulation and we'll
> cover quite a few, but we'll also have fun as we
> incorporate a little humor into what could be a
> touchy
> subject!
>
> Looking for some birding adventures?
> http://www.letsgobirding.com
> Tel:408-656-7524
>
> "Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property
> merely of people today, but the property of the
> unborn generations, whose belongings we have no
> right to squander." Theodore Roosevelt
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