MONTHLY MEETINGS

7:30 PM

Springfield Science Museum

Date	Subject
January 7, 2008	Call of the Loon Movie Night. The Common Loon stars in this beautiful yet disturbing documentary. The detrimental effects of mercury on loons provide a broader understanding of how mercurypollution affects wildlife and ecosystems in the Adirondacks and northeastern America.
February 4, 2008	MASSACHUSETTS BREEDING BIRD ATLAS 2 Coordinator Joan Walsh will give the presentation. Learn how you can help with this very important effort. EVERYONE'S help is needed. Please bring a county or western mass atlas, or a good street map to the meeting. It would be helpful in defining blocks. Al and Lois Richardson will have the Gov. Survey Maps and will help atlassers in getting the block boundaries defined.
March 3, 2008	Conservation of Birds in Japan How may we benefit from lessons learned from overseas? Dr. Robert Askins, Professor of Ornithology at Connecticut College, will speak on bird conservation in Japan in the face of ever-increasing threats of development. The plight of Japan's forests is similar to ours here in New England.
April 7, 2008	Ticks and Mosquitoes as Disease Vectors As spring approaches we must be vigilant against disease carrying ticks and mosquitoes. Dr. Alfred DeMaria, Assistant Commissioner of the Massachusetts Laboratory Institute, will speak to us on this very important topic. The Institute's mission is disease surveillance and prevention.
May 5, 2008	Annual & Regular Meeting - Birds of Hawaii The team of Doug and Barbara James will tell us about their birding trip to Maui and Kauai by showing a fine selection of their photos.

MEETINGS are held the first Monday of every month, October thru May, at 7:30 pm, in the Tolman Wing of the Springfield Science Museum (The Quadrangle). Parking is in the Edwards St lot one block from Chestnut St and State St in Springfield.


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