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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The Cape Cod Bird Club presents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Mark Faherty<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>“The Cape Cod Osprey Project: Voyeuristic Citizen Science”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Monday, March 12, 2012 7:30pm, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Route 6A, Brewster MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3/7/12)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>CONTACT: Diane Silverstein, 508-364-7050, </b><a href="mailto:birder526@comcast.net"><b>birder526@comcast.net</b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Cape Cod Osprey Project: Voyeuristic Citizen Science - Mark Faherty, Science Coordinator, Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary and President, Cape Cod Bird Club</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Cape Cod Osprey project started at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary with a small network of telephone informants reporting on the productivity of their local osprey nests, mainly on the Outer Cape. The project has since grown into a network of over 70 volunteers helping to map and monitor nests from Wellfleet to Falmouth. Volunteers use Google Earth to map nests, and then monitor them periodically to note the timing of important events in the nesting cycle such as the initiation of incubation, hatch date, and ultimately the number of chicks successfully fledged from each nest. The project has shed light on this previously mysterious population of ospreys and allowed comparisons with better studied populations on the Westport River and on Martha’s Vineyard. We also satellite tracked a juvenile Eastham Osprey named Goody Hallet on her southward migration from Cape Cod to South America, with many wacky stops in between, and her travels will be detailed in this talk. Perhaps most importantly, we’ve engaged an ever-growing corps of citizen scientists in tracking a species whose fate is directly linked with the health of our coastal ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Mark Faherty has been the Science Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary since August 2007 and President of Cape Cod Bird Club since 2009. While his current projects involve everything from oysters and horseshoe crabs to bats and butterflies, he has studied primarily bird ecology for the last 16 years, working on research projects in Texas, Florida, California, Arizona, Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, and the Cape Cod National Seashore. He appreciates the osprey project because it allows him to keep one wing in the ornithological world while also taking credit for work done primarily by other, unpaid people. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Diane Silverstein, Volunteer Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mass Audubon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PO Box 236<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>291 State Highway Rte. 6<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>S. Wellfleet, MA 02663<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>508-349-2615, ext. 101<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>email: dsilverstein@massaudubon.org<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>website: www.massaudubon.org<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MassAudubonWellfleetBay<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Protecting the Nature of Massachusetts<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>