Dr Barnett Rattner recently gave a short presentation to a local environmental group (South River Federation) in Mayo, which is a suburb of Annapolis, on the findings of a USGS-PWRC osprey study in Chesapeake Bay regions of concern. This was basically the same talk Dr Rattner gave at SETAC (November), the USGS-Chesapeake Bay Meeting (November), and before the American Bird Conservancy (December). Dr Rattner was one of several speakers at the meeting. A reporter from the local newspaper (The Capital) was present, and called today informing me that there will be 17" column in todays paper describing the meeting last night.

Gee Presents Slide/Video Talk to St. Louis Zoological Society

Dr George Gee was the invited guest of the St. Louis Zoological Society on January 17-18, 2002. Dr Gee also met with the Zoo Administrators, Curators, and Researchers and presented a slide and video illustrated talk to the St. Louis Zoological Society on the evening of January 17, 2002. As their first speaker in a series on conservation, Dr Gee described the Canadian and United States Whooping crane Recovery Program. The several hundred participants were given a variety of handouts on Patuxent’s role in USGS and in the Whooping Crane Recovery Program.

Several Patuxent Biological Survey Unit staff participated in a Feather Identification Lab Open House held on 14 December 2001 in the Division of Birds at the National Museum of Natural History. Participating in the event were Claudia Angle, Suzanne Collins, Bob Reynolds, and Neal Woodman. More than 120 guests attended from government agencies and organizations including the U. S. Air Force, U. S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense, U. S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Aviation Administration and representatives from several regional commercial airports. Claudia Angle lead tours of the Division of Birds throughout the day, while Neal Woodman and Suzanne Collins sequestered an interested party of USDA Wildlife Biologists for a tour of the Division of Mammals collections. The feather identification lab at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History reliably identifies fragmentary bird feathers or bat hairs that remain from collisions with aircraft. Suzanne Collins presented a poster entitled "Bat Strikes" detailing her work in identifying bat remains from United States Air Force aircraft.

Contact: Suzanne P. Collins,  202.357.1865

Whooping Crane Migration Article by Duff and Patuxent's Sprague published in Communique Magazine

An article on the whooping crane migration written by Joe Duff and Patuxent's Dan Sprague was recently published in Communique Magazine and was highlighted on the magazine's cover. The article may be read online at http://www.aza.org/Publications/2001/12/ 

Contact: Dan Sprague 301.497.5755

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