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| Title | The Spoonbill, Vol. 33, No. 7, July 1984 |
| Alternative Title | The Spoonbill, Vol. XXXIII, No. 7, July 1984 |
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| Publisher | Outdoor Nature Club |
| Date | July 1984 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | ID 2007-023, Box 11, Folder 18 |
| ArchivesSpace URI | /repositories/2/archival_objects/9869 |
| Original Collection | Outdoor Nature Club Records |
| Digital Collection | Outdoor Nature Club Newsletters |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/2007_023 |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections/ |
| Use and Reproduction | Rights Undetermined |
| File Name | index.cpd |
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| Transcript | §POOj^BILL Published by the Ornithology Group, Outdoor Nature Club, Houston, Texas. B. C. Robison, editor Vol.XXXIII,No.7 July, 1984 Qo+hX+yfo Ev&hZt August 2 Thursday August 3 Friday August 8 Wednesday August 25 Saturday September 6 Thursday O.G. meeting at Bayou Manor Program: Churchill,Home of Ross' Gull. Two O.G. members, Steve Carroll and Diana Symon, share with us their recent birding safari in the Canadian arctic. Deadline for July Clearing House and Outer Circle Piney Woods Wildlife Society Program: The Sam Houston National Forest", by Sharon Mohoney of the U.S. Forest Service. At North Harris County College, Academic Bldg. Room A-126 7:30 p.m. Deadline for Spoonbill articles and announcemnts August Field Trip led by Randy Pinkston. Meet at Denny's on the Galveston Island side of Interstate 45 Causeway at 7:00 a.m. If it has not rained we will first search East Beach and then move Westward to include such hot spots as Sportsman Road, Nottingham Ranch Road, Galveston Island State Park, and San Luis Pass. The route maybe modified slightly if we have rain to take full advantage of woodland birding. Emphasis will be on fall migrants particularly shore birds. O.G. meeting at Bayou Manor Program: The "Texas Naturalist" and Houston Post reporter, B.C. Robinson,reveals the high points of his 1984 trip to the Galapagos Islands. September 29 Saturday September Field Trip led by Bob Behrstock to Anahuac Refuge, High Island and Bolivar Flats. Details will be forthcoming. Entire Field Trip Schedule will be published in the next issue of the Spoonbill. SCIENCE, BIRDING AND THE RIGHT STUFF: AN APPRECIATION The recent documentation of the Yucatan Vireo on the UTC as a new addition to the North American avifauna was an event of overwhelming popular, if not ecological, significance. Such an event brings the oft-repeated conflict of scientific collecting and the sport of birding and all of us, a cognizant, eminently capable team of birders, aided by a little luck, documented this avian visitor in such a fashion that science and the birding community were both well served. In response to some low-level mumblings on the topic, we had originally prepared a long-winded dissertation on the relative value of, and need for, scientific collecting versus the equally legitimate rights and rituals of the burgeoning birding cadres. Such a debate will persist forever and our essay would have swayed no hearts. Instead we would simply like to commend Jim Massey, Larry White, Jim Morgan, Ted and Virginia Euganks, and all others involved for a shining example of how to handle the documentation of a super-rarity. This team simultaneously demonstrated the sharpest edge in a scientific pursuit and exemplary birding etiquette and we thank them hearily for both. Chuck Sexton and Greg Lasley, American Birds , South Texas Regional Editors. |