[Denveraudubon] DFO Meeting on October 22 NOT October 29

[Charles Thornton-Kolbe]

Hello hard working Audubon Activists.  I know a number of you do not subscribe to co-birds, but do belong to the Denver Field Ornithologists.  I though I would post this to the ASGD list serve as well.
   
  Also, everyone is invited to the DFO meetings.  So.....
   
  Due to my inability to count from one to ten or my poor eye sight, the October meeting date for the Denver Field Ornithologists got confused in the Lark Bunting.
   
  The October meeting date will be October 22.  The meeting date will not be October 29 (as incorrectly stated in the last issue of the Lark Bunting).
   
  Many of you will be interested in what the Ted Floyd (the editor for Birding Magazine and author to the upcoming Smithsonian Guide to North American Birds) has to share about birds and birding, so mark your calendar correctly for October 22 for a 7:30 PM start.
   
    Meetings are held at the Ricketson Auditorium in Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Park on the north side of museum and walk around to the  west door between 7 and 7:30 pm. If late, enter through security/volunteer door.

   
  Good Birding Always and Humbly Yours:  Charles Thornton-Kolbe
   
  Post Script on Grasslands Conservation and Burrowing Owls:  Not to Harp on the Pawnee Grasslands Conservation Issue Too Much.. but our September 24 meeting hits that topic....
   
     “Colorado Grasslands and the Population Dynamics of Burrowing Owls”
   
  Dr. Michael Antolin, speaker at the DFO meeting, Monday September 24.
  On Monday, September 24, 2007 at 7.30 pm, the DFO meeting speaker will be Dr. Michael Antolin from Colorado State University.  Dr. Antolin’s work focus on the effects of fragmented habitats on the population genetics of animals and plants.  More recently, he and his research team have initiated research at the Short Grass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research Site at the Pawnee National Grasslands.  They have conducted studies of the population genetics of the Black-tailed Prairie Dog, whose populations are severely affected by local outbreaks of plague.  Research has also covered other related and threatened species, such as Burrowing Owls.  Along with Dr. Antolin’s research, Ph.D candidate Reesa Conrey will share her research and experience with Burrowing Owls.  One issue their research has explored is the fundamental relationship between the dynamics of the Burrowing Owl populations and the dynamics of the Prairie Dog populations and what impact plague has had on these
 dynamics.  Besides studying metapopulation dynamics of these populations, Dr. Antolin’s research team has studied the epidemiology of plague in the context of the other rodent communities surrounding prairie dog colonies, the use of a variety of molecular genetic markers including microsatellites, mitochondrial DNA, SSCP, and DNA sequencing.   
   

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