Virginia Birders,
Please mark your calendars for the second Rusty Blackbird Winter Blitz,
a citizen-science effort to document locations of this rapidly declining
species across its wintering range. The Blitz will take place Jan
30-Feb 15, 2010. During this time volunteers will search for Rusty
Blackbirds in likely habitats across Virginia and enter these
observations into VA eBird. These observations are critical in
identifying both local areas of concentration and areas that are not
used, and in evaluating the stability of these locations over time.
This project of the Smithsonian's International Rusty Blackbird
Technical Working Group is being brought to you here in Virginia by the
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the Virginia Society
of Ornithology and the Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory. You can
find more information on the Blitz and on the status, distribution and
ecology of the Rusty Blackbird in Virginia at
http://www.vabci.org/rusty-blackbird.asp. Feel free to contact me, the
Blitz coordinator for VA, with any questions at
sergio.harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Sergio
Sergio Harding
Nongame Bird Conservation Biologist
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
4010 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23230
(804)367-0143
fax (804)367-2427
www.vabci.org
