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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:14.0pt'>Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary</span></b> is thrilled to announce two Bayside Talks this summer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Wednesday, August 1, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Kestrels and Cranberries, featuring live birds<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Bird bander and conservationist <b>Joey Mason</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone who has ever seen an American Kestrel hover above a meadow just before diving on its prey can appreciate the beauty of this colorful bird of prey. Unfortunately, our smallest falcon is in big trouble. Learn everything you ever wanted to know about kestrels, and their reliance on cranberry bogs as a nesting habitat in this wonderful photographic presentation by Joanne "Joey" Mason, who will share her extensive research and conservation experiences with American kestrels.<br><br><b>A live kestrel and merlin will be featured for close and photographic looks.<br></b><br>Mason's talk with include insight and speculation into the kestrels' decline, which was recently documented by Mass Audubon's landmark State of the Birds report, as well as intriguing stories about what the kestrels are eating and what else is nesting in their boxes. (Kestrels nest in a variety of open habitats, especially rare grassland habitats.) <br><br>Joey Mason initiated the nest box project for American kestrels in southeastern Massachusetts 23 years ago. She has monitored American Kestrel nest boxes and banded young and adult Kestrels with U.S. Fish and Wildlife bands ever since. In 2000, she spearheaded the Raptor Retrofit Project to prevent osprey electrocutions on privately owned utility poles, and has been responsible for placement of numerous osprey nesting platforms. Joey has recently been working on a better management practices for landfills, to prevent raptors from getting injured and killed from methane burners.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Learn more: <a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Wellfleet/news.php?id=2000&event=no">http://www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Wellfleet/news.php?id=2000&event=no</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Register online: <a href="https://www.massaudubon.org/catalog/listing.php?program_code=1125-WF12SU1">https://www.massaudubon.org/catalog/listing.php?program_code=1125-WF12SU1</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Wednesday, August 8, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Finding Your Inner Fish<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>New York Times Best-selling Author and Leading Paleontologist <b>Neil Shubin<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly or the fin of a fish? Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered the fossil of Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006--tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria. In this lecture, we will relive Shubin's expeditions to the Arctic in search of ancient fossils that reveal how fish took their first steps on land. Then, he will reveal how 3.5 billion years of the history of life is embedded in every part of our bodies. <br><br>Shubin was educated at Columbia University (1982, A.B.), Harvard University (1987, Ph.D), and The University of California at Berkeley (1987-1989, Postdoctoral Fellowship). After serving on the faculty of The University of Pennsylvania (1990-2000), he joined the faculty of The University of Chicago as Chair of the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy. In 2006, he was appointed Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor, Associate Dean of the Biological Sciences Division of The University of Chicago, his current appointments. He is author, with colleagues, of numerous publications on the origin of vertebrates in the fossil record (most notably the discovery of the earliest salamanders, frogs, mammals, and the transitional lobe finned fish, Tiktaalik roseae) as well as developmental analyses of the evolution of skeletal organs. <br><br>Shubin is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Your Inner Fish (Vintage, 2009) and is the recipient of The National Academies Scientific Communication Award, (Best Book), The Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award, and the Distinguished Service Award of the National Association of Biology Teachers. He is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Learn more: <a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Wellfleet/news.php?id=1998&event=no">http://www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Wellfleet/news.php?id=1998&event=no</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Register online: <a href="https://www.massaudubon.org/catalog/listing.php?program_code=1126-WF12SU1">https://www.massaudubon.org/catalog/listing.php?program_code=1126-WF12SU1</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tickets may be purchased by calling 508.349.2615 or online at <a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay">www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Our July/ August program brochure can be found here: <a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/PDF/newsletters/Wellfleet_Bay_218.pdf">http://www.massaudubon.org/PDF/newsletters/Wellfleet_Bay_218.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>We hope that you will share this information with your colleagues and friends, and to see you at the sanctuary soon. Please let us know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Amy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Amy Fleischer, Education Director/ Public Programs Coordinator <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PO Box 236, South Wellfleet, MA 02663<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>afleischer@massaudubon.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>508-349-2615, ext 114</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Office Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Protecting the Nature of Massachusetts</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>