Super program at DFO meeting, Monday, Jan 27!

[Joe Roller]

Meredith McBurney, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) biologist, will be the featured speaker at the Monday January 27 meeting of the Denver Field Ornithologists.

This promises to be a swell program, taking us through the evolving world of bird banding from Audubon’s work in the early 1800’s, through the traditional process of marking with numbered bands, to the cutting edge technology of geolocators, radio telemetry, and genetic and stable-isotope markers. She will show some of the birds she has banded and photographed in the hand. 

Meredith banded her first bird - a Black-and-white Warbler - as a research assistant while studying Long-tailed Manikins in Monteverde, Costa Rica in 1997.

She began volunteering for RMBO in 1998 and joined the staff in 2004. She currently bands every spring at the Chatfield Station near the Audubon Nature Center and every fall at Barr Lake, banding more than 2,000 birds and educating at least that many students annually. Meredith has a B.S. in Zoology from Colorado State University.

The DFO meeting is in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Ricketson Auditorium. Enter through the west door by 7:30 PM, as the doors must be locked then.

The program is free and open to the public. It would be good introduction to the world of birding for a friend or a student who wonders what it's all about.

So mark your calendars, call a friend and BE THERE next Monday! 

Joe Roller,

Denver