The Eighty-third Annual Meeting

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Date of this Version

6-1984

Citation

“The Eighty-third Annual Meeting,” from Nebraska Bird Review (June 1984) 52(2).

Comments

Copyright 1984 Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union. Used by permission.

Abstract

Almost perfect weather greeted the 59 who registered for the eighty-third Annual Meeting, held at Camp Norwesca, near Chadron State Park, 19 and 20 May 1984. There was a slide show (including a bird identification quiz) Friday night. Saturday there were bird trips to Sowbelly Canyon and Gilbert-Baker Wildlife Area, north of Crawford, and on over to the Wyoming border; to Soldiers Creek, near Fort Robinson; to Beaver Valley, north of Hay Springs; and a shorter, morning only, visit to the Jeanne Dueker home, south of Chadron. At the paper session and Annual Meeting, Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Joyce Brashear read a memorial to Doris Gates, written by Dr. Rosalind Morris, who was not able to be present. Lon Neth, Biology Department, Chadron State College, gave a paper “Winter Prey Remains in Great Horned Owl Pellets in Dawes Co., Nebraska”; Sue Fairbanks, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, spoke on “Habitat Use and Foraging Behavior of Semicaptive Bighorn Sheep at Fort Robinson State Park”; and Dr. Roger Sharpe, Biology Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha, spoke on “Bird Migration Problems from Unusual Patterns in Nebraska”; Wayne Mollhoff, Albion, discussed some of the problems involved in the bird atlas project. The following officers were elected for the 1983–84 term: Gary Lingle, Grand Island, president; Mrs. Ruth Green, Bellevue, vice-president; Mrs. Emma Johnson, Omaha, secretary; Mrs. Lona Shafer, Wood River, treasurer; Dr. Neva Pruess, Lincoln, librarian; and Dr. R. G. Cortelyou, Omaha, editor.

The count for the meeting, covering parts of Dawes, Sheridan, and Sioux counties, was 112, plus a call, heard once, suspected of being an Eastern Meadowlark, Empidonax species, and a hawk suspected of being an immature Ferruginous Hawk, although some disagreed with that identification. The Lesser Goldfinch is a first for the state.