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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span
style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>WILD WINTER WORDS: CAPE WILDLIFE CENTER
LECTURE SERIES<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cummaquid
– The Cape Wildlife Center hosts <i>Wild Winter Words</i> – a
lecture series to engage and delight the Cape’s nature lovers. These
talks, held at the Cape Wildlife Center, 4011 Main Street (Route 6A), in the
Cummaquid section of Barnstable, on Thursday evenings, feature wildlife experts
from around the Cape and Islands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All lectures
begin at 7 p.m. and are free. Mark your calendar for these dates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>January 21
<i>Birds of Cape Cod and the Islands</i> </span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>– Explore the <i>Who</i>, <i>What</i>,
<i>When</i>, <i>Where</i> and <i>Whys</i> of the Cape and Island bird scene
with author, newspaper columnist, and public radio commentator Vernon Laux. His
pursuits have taken him to all 7 continents, but his favorite area remains
these shores.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>February
18 <i>Gray Seal ID: </i></span></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Smile
and Say Fish</span></i></b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
– </span></i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Join</span><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Seal biologist, Lisa Sette, from the Provincetown Center
for Coastal Studies, as she shares her research using photographs of individual
seals to study the local movements and haul-out site choices of North Atlantic Gray
Seals on Cape Cod shores.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>March 18 <i>Hawks
of Massachusetts</i> – </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Many
bird species’ populations are declining, while hawk species are
increasing. Why? What hawk species are not doing well? </span><span
style='font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Learn about the hawks that breed in,
or migrate through, Cape Cod, Massachusetts from Paul M. Roberts, founder and a
director of the Eastern Massachusetts Hawks, President of the NorthEast Hawk
Watch, and past Chair and Director of the Hawk Migration Association of North
America.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>April 22 <i>Bats: White Nose Syndrome – </i></span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Six species of hibernating bats have
been affected by this</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> devastating
disease, with the little<b> </b>brown bat most seriously impacted. These
insectivores provide an important ecosystem service to natural and human
ecosystems. </span><span style='font-family:Times-Roman'>Dr. Thomas H. Kunz,
Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Ecology and Conservation
Biology at Boston University, </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>will
share his work and the possible consequences for</span><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'> North America.</span><span style='font-family:Times-Roman'>
Dr. Kunz testified this summer before Congress at a Joint House Subcommittee on
White-Nose Syndrome in bats and appeared on Voice of America to discuss this
disease.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Heather
D.Rockwell<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Office
Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Cape
Wildlife Center <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>4011
Main Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Barnstable,
MA 02630<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ph:
508-362-0111 f: 508-362-0268<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#365F91'>hrockwell@humanesociety.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#365F91'>humanesociety.org/cape<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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