[Tweeters] REMINDER: WOS Monthly Meeting, January 8, 2024

[meetings at wos.org]

The Washington Ornithological Society (WOS) is pleased to announce our first Monthly Meeting of 2024 which will be held on Monday, January 8 (departing from our usual “first Monday” to steer clear of New Year’s Day).  We are very pleased to have as our speaker, Thomas P. Good, Ph.D., whose presentation is titled, "Caspian Terns in Puget Sound: caught between multiple rocks and hard places.”  

Regional Caspian Tern populations have fluctuated markedly in the last 40 years, due in part to their nomadic nature and nesting habitat needs.  Plus they have a particular predilection for consuming  salmonids as prey.  Tom Good has been a research biologist for NOAA Fisheries at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle since 2001, where he works primarily on seabird-fishery interactions.  A major emphasis of his has been field studies of Caspian Terns and their predation on juvenile salmonids.  Tom will share his insights into the Caspian Tern and how their populations here in the Salish Sea are challenged by natural and man-made disasters, ranging from climate change to predator and/or human disturbance of colonies, to a global pandemic.

This meeting will be conducted virtually, via Zoom (no in-person attendance).  Sign-in will begin at 7:15 pm, and the meeting commences at 7:30 pm.  Please go to the WOS Monthly Meetings page:     https://wos.org/monthly-meetings/  for instructions on participation and to get the Zoom link.

When joining the meeting, we ask that you mute your device and make certain that your camera is turned off.

This meeting is open to all as WOS invites everyone in the wider birding community to attend.  Thanks to the generosity of our presenters, recordings of past programs are available at the following link to the WOS YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@washingtonornithologicalso7839/videos

If you are not yet a member of WOS, we hope you will consider becoming one at  https://wos.org

Please join us!

Elaine Chuang
WOS Program Support