2010 Annual Meeting Announced

THE THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WATERBIRD SOCIETY will be held in Grand Island, Nebraska, from 13 Mar – 16 Mar 2011 (Sunday to Wednesday) and will be held jointly with the North American Crane Working Group.  This meeting will constitute the annual meeting for the 2010 calendar year, and will include presentations of research papers, symposia, workshops, social events and area field trips.  The Platte River and nearby wetlands in mid-March provide staging habitat for nearly 10 million waterfowl and half a million Sandhill Cranes—a phenomenon of global significance.  Due to its use by large numbers of migrating shorebirds, the area also is designated a Landscape of International Importance by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network.  Information about the meeting will be posted at the websites of the Waterbird Society (http://www.waterbirds.org/annual_meeting) and the North American Crane Working Group (http://www.nacwg.org/). Contacts for the meeting are: FELIPE CHAVEZ-RAMIREZ, Local Committee Chair (EM:fchavez@whoopingcrane.org) and KATHARINE PARSONS, Scientific Program Chair (EM: katharinecparsons@gmail.com).