ABC Meeting, February 16, 2016: 6:45 PM, University Place Library:
LIFE NET Nature/Ecuador – Banding: Special Presentation on LIFE NET Nature and their work in Las Tangaras Reserve near Mindo, Ecuador. Our own intrepid bird banders, Mike Walker, Jerry Broadus, and Clarice Clark, were there in December to band birds and will tell us all about it. Mike has done this for 3 seasons and got Jerry & Clarice to join him this time. This reserve is WAY off the beaten path, and you are unlikely to stumble across it unless you’ve volunteered.
Mike is a biologist, bird-bander, birding class instructor for Tahoma Audubon, and does many projects including counting swifts at the JBLM chimney with his wife, Jodi.
Jerry and Clarice are surveyors and are past recipients of Tahoma Audubon’s service award for their donation of surveying the Morse Preserve when it was acquired several years ago. Jerry is also an attorney and is currently on the board of directors for Tahoma Audubon. They currently travel extensively in their birdbanding capacity.
Join us to hear these exciting adventures in the tropics and learn about what it takes. Up to 18 different species of Hummingbirds have been banded during one of these volunteer Decembers!
Clarice Clark and Jerry Broadus banding at TAS’ Morse Preserve.
Mike Walker bands a Toucanet in Ecuador.
You can read about this site at the following website, but be warned you may have to scroll way down to find the meat of the post:
Read about LIFE NET at
http://lifenetnature.org/
The LifeNet website has crashed, and they are having a difficult time getting it back up and running. LifeNet is run by two biologists and they have to work with a distant website manager who currently seems to be rather unresponsive!