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[Paul Marilyn Schlansky]

Press Release
February 2, 2016
Paul Schlansky
774-237-0698
schlansky2 at gmail.com

The February meeting of the Cape Cod Bird Club will be held on Monday,
February 8th, at 7 PM at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Rte 6A in
Brewster.  Meetings are free and open to all.  This month's speaker is *Mark
Faherty *who will speak on* Birding Panama*

Though smaller than many US states, Panama offers some of the best birding
in Central America. Lying at the break point between North and South
America, it shares many species with Costa Rica and Columbia, and also
hosts many of our wintering Neotropical migrants much of the year. In this
talk Mark will focus on two recent Mass Audubon trips to the lowland
rainforests of the canal zone and foothills and cloud forest of Coclé
province. These trips were mostly based at the famous Canopy Tower, where
owls, cotingas, puffbirds, multiple species of sloths and monkeys, and many
other birds could be seen at point-blank range, eye level, from the dining
area or the roof deck. Day trips to the species rich lowland rainforest of
Pipeline Road produced birds like Streak-chested Antpitta, Chestnut-backed
Antbird, and Slaty-backed Forest Falcon, among many others. Visits to the
canal locks and Panama City added some cultural attractions, not to mention
species like Lance-tailed Manakin, Blue-footed Booby, Cocoi Heron, and Rosy
Thrush-Tanager.

Mark has been the Science Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay
Wildlife Sanctuary since August 2007 and has led birding trips for Mass
Audubon since 2002. While his current projects involve everything from
oysters and horseshoe crabs to bats and butterflies, he has studied
primarily bird ecology for the last 20 years, working on research projects
in Kenya, Florida, Texas, California, Arizona, Mexico, and the Pacific
Northwest.  Mark is past president of Cape Cod Bird Club and is a current
member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee.

*And please join us for our free and fun February bird walks: *

*Cape Cod’s Northern Beaches*

*David Clapp, *declapp at me.com* – Sunday, February 7, 8AM*

Meet at the Salt Pond Visitor’s Center in Eastham and we will carpool to
various Outer Cape Beaches in search of waterfowl, seabirds and anything
that to wants to come out in the chilly weather!

*Birding Mid-Cape – **Dennis/Harwich*

*Judith Davis, motherjude3 at aol.com <motherjude3 at aol.com> – Monday, February
15, 9AM*

Enjoy Washington’s Birthday by spending some time birding! Meet at the
entrance to West Dennis Beach. We will look for ducks, loons, Snow
Buntings, Purple Sandpipers and more! We will then caravan over to Bell’s
Neck Road in West Harwich to walk the conservation lands on the north side
of Great Western Road.

*Yarmouth Area*

*Peter Bono, *pbono at prba.com* or 774-487-2848 – Saturday, February 20, 8AM*

We are going to explore the Yarmouth area including fantastic places like
Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, Hallet’s Mill Pond, Water Street Marsh,
Bass Creek and Dennis Chapin Beach. We will meet at Long Pasture Wildlife
Sanctuary and head east from there. Please call Peter after 6:45AM the day
of the walk or email him to let him know you will be joining.

*Road Trip to Rhode Island*

*Stefanie Paventy, *stefpav09 at gmail.com* or 203-415-1956 – Saturday,
February 27, 7AM*

Possible places to visit will include the Watchemoket Cove, Portsmouth Town
Pond, St. Mary’s Pond, Sachuest Point, Beavertail State Park, Ninigret NWR,
Trustom Pond NWR, Moonstone Beach and the fields of the University of Rhode
Island. We will be guided by open water during hard winter conditions. The
focus of the trip will be waterfowl, but we should see a great diversity of
birds during the day. We will stop somewhere for lunch. Bad weather
cancels. *Please RSVP to Stefanie as there is limited seating.* Meet at the
commuter parking lot off of Main Street in Buzzards Bay (behind Krua Thai
Restaurant near the railroad bridge).
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