Flyer Cheyenne – High Plains Audubon Society Chartered by the National Audubon Society since 1974 Serving southeastern Wyoming Audubon members Officers and Committee Chairs Barb Gorges, President—307-634-0463, [email protected]Dennis Saville, Vice president— 307-632-1602, [email protected]Donna Kassel, Secretary—307-634-6481 Chuck Seniawski, Treasurer, 307-638-6519, [email protected]Jack Palma, Audubon Rockies liaison— [email protected]Pete Arnold, Audubon Rockies liaison Greg Johnson, Bird Compiler— 307-634-1056, [email protected]Conservation—Vacant Belinda Moench, Education—638-8257 Field Trip—Vacant Historian—Vacant Mark Gorges, Newsletter, Habitat Hero pro- gram—307-634-0463, [email protected]Art Anderson, Important Bird Areas— 307-638-1286 Wanda Manley, Member at Large Membership—Vacant Barb Gorges, Programs—307-634-0463, [email protected]Lorie Chesnut, Hospitality, Website The CHPAS Flyer is published monthly as a benefit of chapter membership. Submissions are welcome. The current issue is available online at www.CheyenneAudubon.wordpress.com. Please become a CHPAS member—Send $12 and your name and mailing address to the chapter. Include your e-mail address to get your newsletter digitally to save re- sources and see the photos in color. All chap- ter memberships expire Aug. 31. Cheyenne-High Plains Audubon Soc. P.O. Box 2502 Cheyenne, WY 82003-2502 www.CheyenneAudubon.wordpress.com Wyobirds e-list - Subscribe, post and/or read interesting sightings: http:// home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa- HOME.exe?A0=WYOBIRDS. September 2017 September 19—Program: Birds of The Seren- geti mixed in with a smattering of the culture of East Africa–Pete and Ruth Arnold. 5 p.m. No host dinner with the speaker at 2 Doors Down, 118 E. 17th St. Call Chuck (638-6519) if com- ing to dinner. 7 p.m. Willow Room, Laramie County Public Li- brary, 2200 Pioneer Ave. In January and Febru- ary, 2017 Pete and Ruth visit- ed Kenya and Tanza- nia. About 25,000 photos lat- er, they have selected just a few images of the birds seen on that wonderful trip. Also included at no ex- tra charge, some photos of the culture of those otherworldly countries. (Editor’s note: We never charge for programs.) Sep. 23—Field Trip: Help us knock down burdock in Curt Gowdy State Park at 8 a.m. We will leave from the Lions Park Children's Village parking lot. Carpooling maybe available. Or you can meet us at the Curt Gowdy Visitors Center at about 8:30. Finish by 1 p.m. Bring water and your lunch. Bring the following, if you have them: 5 gallon plastic bucket, pruners/nippers, long-sleeved shirt (burs will stick to flannel, fleece and sweatshirts), long pants (many burdock plants are among shrubs and trees), gloves, and boots (burs stick to ath- letic shoes). Wear a hat to keep burs out of your hair. Please contact Mark & Barb for more information, 307-634- 0463, and to be on the list of participants to be notified of any change in plans due to weather. September 26—Board Meeting 7 p.m. Sage Room (2nd floor), Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. Open to all who would like to work with the chapter. September 29—Cheyenne Country Club Survey 8 a.m. Contact Chuck Seniawski if you wish to take part or be on the email notice list: 307-638-6519. Anyone is welcome to join the group, but you must register with Chuck by the week before the survey so that he can make arrangements with the Country Club. 1 ™s e to 7 Lilac-breasted Roller by Pete Arnold
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Flyer Cheyenne – High Plains Audubon Society Chartered by the National Audubon Society since 1974
The CHPAS Flyer is published monthly as a benefit of chapter membership. Submissions are welcome. The current issue is available online at www.CheyenneAudubon.wordpress.com.
Please become a CHPAS member—Send $12 and your name and mailing address to the chapter. Include your e-mail address to get your newsletter digitally to save re-sources and see the photos in color. All chap-ter memberships expire Aug. 31.
Published Aug. 20, 2017, in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle—By Barb Gorges
When your interest in birds takes you beyond your backyard, you need a guide beyond your bird identification book. That help can come in many forms—from apps and websites to a trail guide book or local expert. Noah Strycker needed a bird-finding guide for the whole world for his record-breaking Big Year in 2015. His book, "Birding without Borders," due out Oct. 10, documents his trav-els to the seven continents to find 6,042 species, more than half the world total. In it, he thoughtfully considers many bird-related top-ics, including how technology made his record possible, specifi-cally eBird.org. In addition to being a place where you can share your birding records, it's "Explore Data" function helps you find birding hotspots, certain birds and even find out who found them. Strycker credits its enormous global data base with his Big Year success. Another piece of technology equally important was http://birdingpal.org/, a way to connect with fellow enthusiasts who could show him around their own "backyards." Every spe-cies he saw during his Big Year was verified by his various trav-elling companions. Back in 1968, there was no global data base to help Peter Alden set the world Big Year record. But he only needed to break just over 2,000 species. He helped pioneer international birding tourism through the trips he ran for Massachusetts Audu-bon. By 1981, he and British birder John Gooders could write "Finding Birds Around the World." Four pages of the nearly 700 are devoted to our own Yellowstone National Park. When I bumped into Alden at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (a birding hotspot) in 2011, he offered to send me an autographed copy for $5. I accept-ed, however, until I read Strycker's book, I had no idea how fa-mous a birder he was. As Strycker explains it, interest in international bird-ing, especially since World War II, has kept growing, right along with improved transportation to and within developing countries, which usually have the highest bird diversity. However, some of his cliff-hanging road descriptions would indicate that perhaps sometimes the birders have exceeded the bounds of safe travel. For the U.S., the Buteo Books website will show you
a multitude of American Birding Association "Birdfinding" titles for many states. Oliver Scott authored "A Birder's Guide to Wyo-ming" for the association in 1992. Robert and Jane Dorn included bird finding notes in the 1999 edition of their book, "Wyoming Birds." Both books are the result of decades of experience. A variation on the birdfinding book is "the birding trail." The first was in Texas. The book, "Finding Birds on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail," enumerates a collection of routes connecting birding sites, and includes information like park entrance fees, what amenities are nearby, and what interest-ing birds you are likely to see. Now you can find bird and wild-life viewing "trails" on the Texas Parks and Wildlife website. Many states are following their example. People in Wyoming have talked about putting togeth-er a birding trail for some years, but it took a birding enthusiast like Zach Hutchinson, a Casper-based community naturalist for Audubon Rockies, to finally get it off the ground. The good news is that by waiting this long, there are now software companies that have designed birding trail apps. No one needs to print books that soon need updates. The other good news is that to make it a free app, Hutchinson found sponsors including the Cheyenne - High Plains Audubon Society, Murie Audubon Society (Casper), Wyoming State Parks, and WY Outside - a group of nonprofits and govern-ment agencies working to encourage youth and families in Wyo-ming to spend more time outdoors. Look for "Wyoming Bird Trail" app on either iTunes or Google Play to install it on your smart phone. Hutchinson has made a good start. The wonderful thing about the app technology is that not only does it borrow Google Maps so directions don't need to be written, the app infor-mation can be easily updated. Users are invited to help. There is one other way enterprising U.S. birders re-search birding trips. They contact the local Audubon chapter, perhaps finding a member, like me, who loves an excuse to get out for another birding trip and who will show them around - and make a recommendation for where to have lunch.