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--Apple-Mail-1--852421951 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Some of you might be interested in joining in on the project described below, which starts tonight. Certainly it's neat to watch the silhouettes of migrating birds against the moon, though doing so for 200 min a night like these folks isn't for everyone. Cheers, Andy Horn Halifax Begin forwarded message: > From: David La Puma <woodcreeper@gmail.com> > Date: October 2, 2009 2:52:20 AM ADT > To: Andrew Farnsworth <andrew.farnsworth@gmail.com>, Michael Lanzone > <mlanzone@gmail.com>, David Mizrahi <david.mizrahi@njaudubon.org>, > Nocturnal Flight Call ListServe <nfc-l@cornell.edu>, JerseyBirds@princeton.edu > , 2FL Birds - L <FLORIDABIRDS-L@lists.ufl.edu>, BIRDCHAT@listserv.arizona.edu > Subject: [nfc-l] Migration Moonwatching Project - 2009 > Reply-To: David La Puma <woodcreeper@gmail.com> > > Hey All > > We (Mike Lanzone, Andrew Farnsworth and I) are attempting to pull > together a nationwide moonwatching event beginning tomorrow night > and continuing through next week. We have come up with some > protocols, borrowed from the work of many others and modified to > suit our needs, and posted them on the following webpage: http://www.woodcreeper.com/moonwatching-2009/ > > We welcome any and all of you to participate in the event. Prior > experience is not required, we only ask that you follow the > protocols outlined on the site, and enter and submit the data > according to the instructions on the site and within the Excel > spreadsheet. Once you read over the materials, if you still have > questions, please feel free to email me and I will try to get back > to you as soon as possible. This is also a great opportunity for > folks to get together with other birders (or astronomers!) and > coordinate a meet-up. I encourage anyone considering joining the > party, to send out an email to their local listserve and see who > might be interested in joining you for a night or two of > moonwatching. Moonwatching and recording data is always easier when > you can switch off with another person. > > Looking at the weather, on Friday night the Central Flyway should > experience the first NW winds which should, in turn, trigger the > next migration event. This system will move east over the weekend, > setting up migration conditions over the Mississippi and Eastern > flyways in successive nights (maybe not until Mon or Tue night for > the Eastern Flyway, depending on which forecast model you check). > > The full moon is on Sunday, October 4th, so moonwatching conditions > should be excellent (assuming a clear sky) over the next 8 days. > > > Good Birding AND Moonwatching! > > Andrew Farnsworth > Michael Lanzone > David La Puma > > > For a great study using moonwatching, you can read Lowery and > Newman's 1966 paper A CONTINENTWIDE VIEW OF BIRD MIGRATION ON FOUR > NIGHTS IN OCTOBER published in The Auk, and download-able as a pdf > here: http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v083n04/p0547-p0586.pdf > > > > ____________________________________________________ > David A. La Puma, Ph.D. > Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources > > Online Teaching Portfolio: > http://www.woodcreeper.com/teaching > > Lockwood lab: > http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jlockwoo > > Websites: > http://www.woodcreeper.com > http://badbirdz2.wordpress.com > > Photos: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodcreeper > > > > --Apple-Mail-1--852421951 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Some = of you might be interested in joining in on the project described below, = which starts tonight. Certainly it's neat to watch the silhouettes = of migrating birds against the moon, though doing so for 200 min a night = like these folks isn't for = everyone.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Andy = Horn</div><div>Halifax</div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded = message:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">David La Puma <<a = href=3D"mailto:woodcreeper@gmail.com">woodcreeper@gmail.com</a>></font></d= iv><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">October 2, 2009 2:52:20 AM ADT</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Andrew = Farnsworth <<a = href=3D"mailto:andrew.farnsworth@gmail.com">andrew.farnsworth@gmail.com</a= >>, Michael Lanzone <<a = href=3D"mailto:mlanzone@gmail.com">mlanzone@gmail.com</a>>, David = Mizrahi <<a = href=3D"mailto:david.mizrahi@njaudubon.org">david.mizrahi@njaudubon.org</a= >>, Nocturnal Flight Call ListServe <<a = href=3D"mailto:nfc-l@cornell.edu">nfc-l@cornell.edu</a>>, <a = href=3D"mailto:JerseyBirds@princeton.edu">JerseyBirds@princeton.edu</a>, = 2FL Birds - L <<a = href=3D"mailto:FLORIDABIRDS-L@lists.ufl.edu">FLORIDABIRDS-L@lists.ufl.edu<= /a>>, <a = href=3D"mailto:BIRDCHAT@listserv.arizona.edu">BIRDCHAT@listserv.arizona.ed= u</a></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[nfc-l] Migration Moonwatching = Project - 2009</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;