At 7:00 PM on Monday April 13, 2015, Dr. Pamela Hunt, a Senior Biologist in Avian Conservation with New Hampshire Audubon, is to speak on "Birding with Sacagawea" in the Mayer Room of the Howe Library in Hanover, NH. This program, cosponsored by the Mascoma Chapter of NH Audubon and the Hanover Conservancy, is free and open to the public. This event was originally scheduled for last December but had to be postponed because of wintery weather. Dr. Hunt's illustrated talk will cover her extensive travels in the footsteps of Sacagawea and the famous Lewis and Clark exploratory expedition to the Pacific Northwest. That remarkable journey came at a time when strikingly distinctive kinds of birds new to science could be discovered on the North American continent. Leaders Lewis and Clark are honored in the names of Lewis's Woodpecker and Clark's Nutcracker, bird species first described as a result of their efforts. Pam Hunt has twice traveled their route, most recently in the spring of 2013, and will compare how the landscape and wildlife have changed from their time to the present. Pam Hunt holds degrees from Cornell, University of Montana, and Dartmouth, and was formerly an adjunct faculty member at Colby-Sawyer College. Well known as one of the most active birders of New Hampshire, she this year confirmed in our local area the unexpected mid February occurrence of a wintering Wilson's Snipe at Lake Runnemede in Windsor, VT. Dr. Hunt recently authored a important report on the "State of the Birds" In New Hampshire. Among her many other interests have been ongoing studies of Whip-poor-wills in New Hampshire and a 5-year statewide survey of dragonflies and damselflies. George Clark Norwich, VT **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************