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The Prairie Falcon - 1

INSIDE

2 JANUARY BIRDING

3 SKYLIGHT

3 BIRDSEED SALE

4 PLANTOFMONTH

4 RESTORATIONJOURNAL

5 MANHATTAN CBC

CONTRIBUTORS

W. CORN

P. COHEN

T. MORGAN

M. RHODES

D. RINTOUL

PRINTED BY CLAFLINBOOKSAND COPIES,MANHATTAN, KS

Sat., Beginning Birdwatching Walk Join us Saturday, Jan. 8th, and every secondSaturday at 8 AM in the Ackert/Durland parking lot on the KSU campus. We will carpoolto a local birding hotspot, and should return by about 11 AM. Birders of every age andinterest level are welcomed; children are especially encouraged to attend.Call Dave Rintoul, 532-6663 or e-mail him at [email protected] for more information.

BIOLOGICALCONTROL:

A PESTMANAGEMENTAPPROACHFOR

PROTECTINGTHE ENVIRONMENT

Before each program we invite our speakers to join us for an informal dinner anddiscussion. Feel free to join us this month at El Cazador Restaurant. We will meet at 5:45PM. The program will begin at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, January 19th. Refreshments areserved after every meeting. Please bring your own cup. All meetings are open to thepublic.

VOL. 28, NO. 5 JANUARY2000

7:30 PMWEDNESDAY, JAN. 19TH , 2000

RM. 1014, THROCKMORTON HALL

JAMES NECHOLS

NORTHERN FLINTHILLS AUDUBON SOCIETYP.O. BOX1932, MANHATTAN, KS 66505-1932

THE PRAIRIE FALCON

Dr. Nechols research is aimed at understanding natural enemy biology, ecology, andbehavior, and applying this knowledge to develop, evaluate, and improve upon biologicalcontrol programs for selected arthropod pests and weeds. A particular focus of his research is

pest and natural enemy phenology with emphasis on dormancy.Current biological control projects involve three major pests: the squash bug, field

bindweed, and musk thistle. For the squash bug, he is investigating the behavior of an eggparasitoid, Gryon pennsylvanicum, to improve its use in an augmentative release program.With colleagues and graduate students, he is also studying herbivores that attack fieldbindweed. This research includes investigations of the seasonal development and dormancyof a moth, Tyta luctuosa, the direct and indirect impact of this moth on field bindweedgrowth and survival, sex pheromone chemistry and moth reproductive behavior, and fieldreleases to establish the moth and also a gall mite,Aceria malherbae, in Kansas. Recentreleases of a European flea beetle, Psylliodes chalcomera, have been made in an attempt toestablish a new natural enemy of musk thistle.

Dr. Nechols also is collaborating with colleagues and graduate students to studyinteractions between predatory mites and spider mites to increase the level and predictabilityof biological control on field and greenhouse crops.

Field Trips


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DECEMBERBIRDING Dave Rintoul

O trees of life, when will your wintercome? Were not in tune. Not like migratory

birds. Outmoded, late, in haste, we force ourselveson winds which let us down upon indifferent

ponds. Though weve had to learn how floweringis fading, somewhere lions still roam, unaware, intheir majesty, of any weakness.

-The Fourth Duino Elegy, Rainier Maria

Rilke, as translated by William H. Gass, in Reading

Rilke (1999) Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, New York,

N.Y.

In the midst of winter, and fullyaware of how flowering is fading, we can stillfind places for getting back in tune with thenatural world here on the Great Plains. Thenext couple of months, arbitrarily (and

inaccurately) designated as the first of the newmillennium, offer some good opportunities forstarting (or continuing) a journey with no end,a journey to learn more about the birds whichshare this space with us. Winter is a good timeto start birdwatching, and the millennial fevergripping the country makes this a good winterto step back and reflect upon how importantthis natural world is to us.

Feeder birds dominate the thinkingof many birders this month, mostly because it issometimes just too dang cold and windy to getenthusiastic about tromping about on the

prairies or in the woodlands. The common seed-eating feeder birds like white-breasted and red-breasted nuthatches, goldfinches, juncos,cardinals (which have now spread clear to the

western border of the state of Kansas), housefinches, and pine siskins will keep many birdersentertained this month. Add a little suet feederto your backyard and you should get severaltypes of woodpeckers, including downy, hairy,

red-bellied and even the strikingNorthern flicker. Add a peanutfeeder and you might get sometufted titmouses, blue jays, oreven an increase in the number ofnuthatches visiting your yard. Butadd a water bath and a heater tokeep it thawed, and anything can

happen. Fruit-eating birds likerobins, yellow-rumped warblers,and cedar waxwings will be more

likely. Lingering half-hardy summer residentslike brown thrashers, or migrants like hermitthrushes might also be attracted to yourbirdbath. So if excursions to the outdoors dontappeal to you this month, you might try settingup a water resource in your back yard and seewhat develops.

However, if you do getoutdoors, lots of other birds may wander pastyour binoculars. Most any place with open

water will attract waterfowl like mallards,common goldeneyes, common mergansers,Canada geese, or other things more exotic. Andthe waterfowl aggregations will attract baldeagles, who are looking for an easy meal andwho are not too picky about what they eat orwho they steal it from.

Open water (aswell as landfills, a vanishing habitat in the state)will also attract gulls. Most of these will be ring-billed gulls, with a smattering of herring gulls,

but the almost infinite variety of plumages ofthese common species will still keep youinterested in watching them. And familiaritywith these common birds makes it more likelythat you will immediately notice theuncommon ones, such as greater black-backedlesser black-backed, California, glaucous,Thayers, mew, or even the unprecedentedRoss gull. In recent times pelagic speciessuch as black-legged kittiwakes have put inappearances in Kansas (looking for that long-lost ocean), so scan all of those gulls and seewhat you can find this month.

Raptors are alsoan obvious benefit to getting outdoors thismonth. The infinitevariety of red-tailed

hawk plumagesalone should keepyou amused formany millennia tocome. Northernharriers will becruising tirelesslyover pastures andmarshes as well; thesight of the rich brown females and the coolgray males are enough to make any field tripworthwhile. Look also for the other buteopossibilities, such as rough-legged hawks, and

ferruginous hawks. Kestrels are commonfalcons across the state, but you might alsofind a merlin, or a prairie falcon, or a peregrineas well. And January is a great time to thinkabout the possibility of a magnificent falcon,the gyrfalcon, a species which indeed fits thedescription of the great predators, unaware,in their majesty, of any weakness.. A birddefinitely in tune with nature, and a good birdby any definition. When and if you see one,give me a call!

World Wetlands Day, Feb. 2nd of every year since 1997. This years theme is Celebrating our Wetlands of International Importance. TheRamsar Web site : http://ramsar.org/wwd2000_rpt_nz1.htmhttp://ramsar.org/wwd2000_rpt_nz1.htm.

The Quivira National Wildlife Refuge has a new address for their web site. The URL is: http://quivira.fws.gov

Cornell Ornithologists Recruit Citizen Scientists By Malcolm G. Scully. The cerulean warbler is in trouble. Its numbers have been decliningby about 3.5 per cent a year, according to an annual survey of breeding birds, and it is a candidate for federal listing as an endangered species.Exactly how threatened the cerulean is, and what steps should be taken to protect it, have been the focus of a two-year-old project led byresearchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Article in The Chronicle of Higer Education website http://chronicle.com/weekly/v46/

i15/15b00901.htm The labs Website is http://www.ornith.cornell.edu

From: [email protected] Last August, at the annual meeting at Cornell, the AOU voted to change the name ofOldsquaw to Long-tailed Duck (to agree with Old World treatment of this widespread species). Michael Patten, editor of North AmericanBirds has already made the change in that magazine.


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SKYLIGHT Pete Cohen

In the wee hours of a night, about 20years ago, I started outside to check on ourlambing ewes and was stopped in thedoorway by an apparition low in the east. It wasno larger than a thumbnail, and only modestlybright, but exceedingly distinct, and whollyunexpected. Because Im a reasonably modernperson I immediately knew it was a comet, evenif it was suddenly live in the sky, and not anews picture with accompanying explanation.

Yet in that instant, a mental windowopened, giving me an eerie sensation of what itmightve been like, long ago, to have looked outof my shepherds hut or cave, and discoveredsuch an abrupt intruder in the familiar sky. Itwas a spur of the moment exercise in self-awareness. I felt I wouldve gone further out

into the night back then, with excited, andcautious curiosity, and not cowered back inknee-jerk fear, and there was nothing to provethat wrong. Excitedly I woke the family, andwith a boost of confidence went on out to tendthe sheep.

One can achieve the same lift, I think,from more common phenomena. Take Jupiter.As mentioned in October, its been at itsbrightest lately, passing high overhead, trailed ata respectful distance by Saturn, which seems bycontrast not as bright as it might. Long ago thesky they travel wouldve been one of my chief

sources of news if I were one of those withthe wit to keep accurate tabs of it. The cloudmoods foretold the weather, and the sun andstar patterns importantly kept the time. Thetwo dippers ever spinning apace in the north,marked the hours (even if by todays standardsthey spin counter-clockwise), and together withthe repeating parade of figures further south,provided the only reliable calendar. A mid-winter warm spell might start trees buddingsuicidally, but the positions of the constellations

could warn you not to plant yet, or put away thewinter hides.

You could see pretty girls outlined onthat calendar, if so inclined, along with warriors,beasts, and a soaring swan. Then what mightyou have made of the planets, those wanderinggleams that would not stay with any one pattern,and were not so set in their timing orbrightnesses as all the twinkles?

Take Jupiter, so high and bright in theconvenient viewing hours this January. OnJanuary 7, 1610, Galileo aimed his little tubulardevice at Jupiter and discovered four sharp butjunior gleams lined out beside it. In the time ittook one of those moons to go behind theplanet, and reappear on the other side, a wholeconstruct of human thought, that for centuries

had solidified into dogma, crumbled before thevery eyes of those who would not deny what theysaw: Clearly not everything revolved around theearth!

Zebulon Pike, exploring across what isnow Kansas in 1806, gauged his westwardprogress by sighting on the occlusions of themoons of Jupiter, and using mathematical tableshe carried with him along with powder, flints,and trading beads. By the tables he couldcompare the times of his sightings with thoseanticipated from the Greenwich Meridian, andtranslate the differences into degrees of

longitude. Global Positioning Systemaunaturel.

Now we can easily turn to manyreferences and learn a great deal more than Pikeor Galileo knew about Jupiters composition,rotational speed, and other wonders. But itmight be as interesting some winter nights not tobe distracted by such fortifying data, and insteadto imagine ourselves outdoors long ago. And totry to discover with what curiosity,contemplations, and conclusions, and with what

confidence and caution, we might have lookedup, and stared gleaming Jupiter in the eye.

This January, an exceptionallyluminous Venus will continue to greet thedawn, shy Mercury will but briefly do so, andMars will start the evening far to the southwesand sink about 9:00.

Old Man Moon, who was sonoticeably brighter than usual at the full inDecember, strives for attention this month byfading at the full to a faint blush. An eclipse ofthe moon the only eclipse to be seen in itsentirety from the U.S. this year will startabout 8 PM CST, the 20th, be at totality fromabout 10 to 11:20, and end about 1:20, the21st. Red light, refracted by the earthsatmosphere, keeps the Old Man dimly in view.

The moon will be new on the 6th,and during the darkness of the 4th, a meteorshower of the Quadrantids could range from aprobable very few to 250/hour, most likelyduring a brief period between 2 and 3 AM.They will emerge from an area of Bootes thePlowman. The stars of the Big Dipper aresometimes, particularly in England, referred toas a plow, so you can handily look in thedirection the plow (or dipper) handle ispointing, and expect the meteors to come outof that region.

To put your binoculars on Jupiters

moons, a schedule of their appearances can befound these days inAstronomyorSky &Telescopemagazines. If looking at them onyour own, and all are in view, Io will be thefastest to shift position (allow an hour fornoticing it), and Europa, the smallest, will behalf as fast. Ganymede, our solar systemslargest moon, will be the brightest, and if oneshines far to the side, its Calisto.

2000 Peter Zachary Cohen

At 7:30 AM the day of the sale, I was hastening between thehouse, the shop and the truck, studying the clouds and trying tosecond guess our fickle Kansas weather. Do I need the tarps from theshop to protect the seed or can we get by without that precaution?Rain drops on my uncovered head answered me, and once startedthey lightly fell all day, but the wind never came up allowing thesituation to be quite manageable. The supplier was there when Iarrived twenty minutes early. TarwaterFarms in Topeka has beenexcellent in its dealings with us. Hoogy arrived four minutes aftermyself and then our ranks started to swell. Walter Dodd gave up hisearly Saturday morning for the greater good andTom Morganappeared, staying to help for the entire sale. Chris and Audrey

December Bird Seed Sale Michael RhodesAnderson-Clowers offered their services.Thanks to the above and to Jan Garton, Leann Harrell and MargeMuenzenberger, this seed sale went smoothly with no sore backsresulting. Leann fueled the fires with organic coffee grown, in theshade, a great compliment to the numerous baked goods she providedincluding a decadent teacake. The sale was about half of the normalvolume, but the preternaturally prolonged, dry Indian summer didnot encourage the birds to the feeders and most folks were still wellstocked from the October Sale. The seed sale total was $1,054.45.The store sold $85 worth of merchandise and we received donationstotaling $91.30. Thanks for the patronage. We hope to see everyoneat the February Sale needing more seed for busied feeders.


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I do not tolerate cold weather well,but have always longed to see winter in the northwoods. I compromised this year, and saw snowfall in Minnesota on October 2nd. As the snowmelted, I hiked into the woods, peering at birdsthat fluttered away before I had a chance toidentify them with my nonexistent skills. Then atype of bird that I had never seen before beganflying towards me, stopping at each tree in hisstraight-line trajectory to peer into my eyes,judging me with the discernment of anunconquered soul. When I lifted my binoculars,he decided that I was demented, and he departedfor parts unknown. He was a whiskey jack. Grayjays are called whiskey jacks, although there is nodocumented origin for this name. In his book,The Ghost Walker, R.D. Lawrence suggests thatthe name was derived from a less pronounceable

name, Wisakedjak, which is the Algonkianname for the Trickster. This suggests a highregard for the gray jay, since the Trickster issupremely intelligent. Jays appear intenselyaware, judging and reacting to nuances ofreality with an intensity that seemssupernatural.

When they trust you, they will takefood from your hand. During nesting inJanuary, however, they keep the location oftheir nest secret, and it is nearly impossible tofind their nest. I shivered and thought abouthow cold it would be that evening after thesnow, and thought about checking into amotel. How cold could it be, when the jaynests in January? The mother keeps her eggswarm in the coldest temperatures known innorthern Minnesota. She may line the nest

with fur. The nest conforms to the shape of herbody, so that she can keep the hatchlings warm.The hatchlings grow thick feathers which theypuff out to trap warmth. Their dark feathers alsoabsorb warmth, such as it is, from the sunlight.

The fledglings often stay with their parents for ayear or more, and help their parents feed the newfledglings during the following year.

When a family timed their approach tocoincide with my return to camp, I scatteredbread for them. As they landed close to me, Iwas tempted to touch their incredible featherswhich keep them warm and make them look likeovergrown chickadees. Each of them picked upas many bread crumbs as they could hold at onetime, and then departed, and then returned topickup another stack of crumbs. With its agiletongue, the gray jay rolls fold into a ball, coatingit with saliva, and then places the sticky clump ina hiding place. Their keen memory enables themto retrieve food several months after storing it. Ihope theyll feed the bread to a young jay. Mayhe thrive in the north woods that I dream of.Long may he thrive, living the life that I long for,close to the earth, moment by moment, andwhen death comes, no regrets, knowing that hehas lived fully and drained the last drop ofhappiness.

PLANTOFTHE MONTHThomas Morgan

Life in the Snow Rounding the edge of a snow bank, I heard a soft musical whistle sounding atonce both warm and out of place in the harshness of these winter ridges. I looked up and, a fewfeet off the trail, a great puffed-out gray jay was sitting on an exposed branch of alpine fir.

Somehow, amid this environment so inhospitable to me, he was thriving.Tony Angell, in Ravens, Crows, Magpies and Jays, University of Washington Press, Seattle (1978)

This will be mylast column until Spring. Im just taking a break.I wrote an article a couple of months ago aboutthe civilization of fire. I talked about the cultureand conversation inherent in sitting around a fireunder the stars or surrounded by brick buildingsin the middle of the city for survival or forceremony or for the satisfaction of knowing othervoices and experiences. This newsletter has thatfeeling for me friends around a fire.We hear Toms stories of a life lived, joyfully

and reverently among trees, and a past of woods

and farms and family. We hear Daves love ofnature writing and philosophy. He is our guideon journeys into the world of birds. Pete hasstepped into the fireglow from his wanderings inthe dark hills. He takes a place close to the firesheat and tells tales of the wonders hes seen witheyes turned heavenward. And then hell grouch alittle bit about obnoxious strobe light towers.

Speaking in my own words, in thisrestoration journal, helps me understand mypurpose in nature and gives me a glimpse of some

essential perceptive of my place yes, ofcourse we are tiny creatures in a very big sea,but then again, together, our voices take on alargeness. Stories are told and stories are heard the stories are our relatedness. Yes, Ive feltthe wind. Heard that morning song. Seenthe beast half-hidden in the deep forest. Weare human beings. A hard thing to besometimes, a hard thing to admit to. I think wehumans embody all the possibilities of theuniverse, from insane cruelty to selflessgenerosity we have it all!

Just now, as I sat to write theconclusion to this column, I got a call fromMarge Phister. She said Beryl Nixon had died.Without Nick the N.E. Community Parkwouldnt be a place it would still be an idea.

One afternoon, a few years ago,Marge, Steve and I thought we should call theowner of a piece of farmland that would makean appropriate site for the proposed park. Atthis point we were frustrated at the apparentlack of action from the Park Staff. We decided

to see what we could do on our own. Marge andSteve called Nick and we found a friend. Nicksaid Yes, hed like to see that land as a park andrecalled how his mother would have liked to seepark there. She hoped it would never be ahousing development. The farm had been in thefamily for more than a hundred years.

Nick jumped right in with us. Hecame to all the park meetings. He offered hopewhen we were discouraged. Nick made thefinancial deal with the city work. Nick Nixonhad a vision beyond profit and self-interest. He

was part of the community of voices that ismaking this park happen.

At times, in this process of acquiringland and grant money and planning, the rightpeople have come to us at just the right time. Isometimes think there are good spirits workingwith us.

Nick Nixon was a man of good spirit,he came to us when we needed him most.Thanks Nick, we couldnt have done it withoutyou.

RESTORATIONJOURNALWayne Corn


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CBC MANHATTANCHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTPied-billed Grebe 4 first seen in 1964, seen 5 times in the 90s

Western Grebe 1 first record for this CBCDb.-crstd. Cormorant 7Gr. Blue Heron 33Snow Goose (white phase) 378 although 378 is lower than last years

census, trends indicate that this species is almost 200X moreabundant in the 90s than in the previous decade

Snow Goose (blue phase) 84Canada Goose 4205 second to last years all-time high of 7785, this

species has increased 10x in the 90sWood Duck 26 all-time high for this speciesGadwall 202

Am. Wigeon 6Mallard 15339 seemingly abundant this year, but present at less than

1/3 of historical numbers found in the 60s and 70sN. Shoveler 60 all-time high for this speciesN. Pintail 31 all-time high for this speciesGr-wnged. Teal 217 well above average numbersCanvasback 11Redhead 7

Ring-necked Duck 146 all-time high, previous high of 84 in 1998Lesser Scaup 23Bufflehead 19Com. Goldeneye 236 species seems to be increasing in this decadeHooded Merganser 106 very abundant this yearCom. Merganser 576 hasnt been cold enough to move these birds into

the areaRuddy Duck 9Bald Eagle 75 near an all-time highN. Harrier 32Sh-shnd. Hawk 9Coopers Hawk 5Red-tailed Hawk 189Kriders Red-tail 1

Harlans Red-tail 16Ferruginous Hawk 1 only the 3rd year ever for this species on this count,

prior records in 1974 and 1996Rough-leg. Hawk 6Buteo sp. 4

Am. Kestrel 41Merlin 4Prairie Falcon 4 matches our all-time high (1984 and 1994)Ring-necked Pheasant 5 dont come to Flint Hills to hunt pheasants!G. Prairie Chicken 5 populations of this species have declined 10X since

the 1950sWild Turkey 304 first record was in 1987, now it is very commonN. Bobwhite 134Killdeer 14

Franklins Gull 1Bonapartes Gull 37Ring-bill. Gull 1183 pop. halved with closing of Manhattan landfillHerring Gull 1Rock Dove 469 numbers are increasing in recent yearsMourning Dove 243E. Screech Owl 7Gr. Horned Owl 26Barred Owl 12Long-ear. Owl 1Belted Kingfisher 22Red-headed Woodpecker 6Red-bellied Woodpecker 273 an all-time high for this species

Ylw-bell. Sapsucker 14 relatively abundant this yearDowny Woodpecker 149Hairy Woodpecker 32N. Flicker (sp) 180

yellow-shafted flicker 120red-shafted flicker 8

Blue Jay 298Am. Crow 4896 increasing, about 4X more common than in 50s -60Horned Lark 130Tree Swallow 1 first record, and a rare winter record for the stateBlk-cap. Chickadee 473Tufted Titmouse 225Red-brstd. Nuthatch 40 all-time high, previous high of 38 in 1993

Wh-brstd. Nuthatch 117Brown Creeper 14Carolina Wren 72 close to an all-time highBewicks Wren 6

Winter Wren 3 relatively abundant this yearG-crwnd. Kinglet 48

E. Bluebird 390 all time highHermit Thrush 3 all-time high, these birds migrate late in warmer year

Am Robin 11286 very abundant this yearN. Mockingbird 2Euro. Starling 13879 very abundant this yearCedar Waxwing 200

Ylw-rump. Warbler 29Pine Warbler 1 only the second record for this CNC, prior sighting

(8 individuals!) in 1964Spotted Towhee 11

Am. Tree Sparrow 569 our lowest total since 1963, numbers of thisspecies have dropped 7X since the 60s and 70s

Savannah Sparrow 1 only the sixth time on the Manhattan CBCHenslows Sparrow 1 first record and a rare winter record for the state

Fox Sparrow 1Song Sparrow 133Lincolns Sparrow 8Swamp Sparrow 6

Wh-thrtd. Sparrow 28Harris Sparrow 694 about average for this regional specialty

Wh-crwnd. Sparrow 27Dk-eyed Junco (slate-colored) 2814

Oregon Junco 37Longspur sp 4N. Cardinal 519Red-wing. Blackbird 4703E. Meadowlark 70

W. Meadowlark 3

Sturnella sp. 394Rusty Blackbird 56Brewers Blackbird 14Com. Grackle 10Br-head. Cowbird 227 despite what you might think, this species is also

declining here in the Flint HillsPurple Finch 4 very uncommon bird in recent yearsHouse Finch 170Pine Siskin 70

Am. Goldfinch 462House Sparrow 383 pop. declined 10X since the 1960s

Grand Total 68891

Also seen count week

Dec. 18th, 1999 75 field birders, 2 feeder observers 537 auto miles, 74 miles on foot, 10 miles by canoe = 68,000 birds, 100 species

Dave Rintoul


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$35 annually. When you join the Northern Flint Hills AudubonSociety, you automatically become a member of the National AudubonSociety and receive the bimonthly Audubon magazine, in addition tothe PRAIRIEFALCON. New membership applications may be sent toNFHAS at the address below; make checks payable to the National

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Edited by Cindy Jeffrey, 15850 Galilee Rd., Olsburg, KS 66520 ([email protected])Also available on the World Wide Web at the URL http://www.ksu.edu/audubon/falcon.html

NFHAS Officers and Board Members 1999-2000

Committee Chairs

Conservation: Janet Throne (776-7624)

(position available)

Education: Beth Tatarko (537-0787)

Program: Alice Blecha (539-6643)

Fieldtrips: Dave Rintoul (537-0781)

Gerald Wiens (565-9282)

Patricia Yeager (776-9593)

Membership: Steve Amy (456-7053)

Finance: John Tatarko (537-0787)

Public Outreach: Dolly Gudder (537-4102)

Land preservation: Paul Weidhaas (539-4805)Newsletter: Cindy Jeffrey (468-3587)

At-Large Board Members: Dusty Becker, Barbara Hilpman,

Phoebe Samelson, Jacque Staats,

Chris Cokinos

(* Kansas Audubon Council Representatives)

President: Hoogy Hooghem* (539-7080)

Vice President: Dave Rintoul* (537-0781)Secretary: Dolly Gudder (537-4102)

Treasurer: Jan Garton (539-3004)

RARE BIRD HOTLINEKansas (statewide): 316-229-2777

Kansas City area (incl. W.MO): 785-342-2473

Nebraska (statewide): 402-292-5325

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