GENERAL MEETINGS

2010

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General meeting is on Thursday, February 11, 2010

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The Pigeon Guillemots of Protection Island NWR Research biologist Lee Robinson, has been studying the pigeon guillemots in Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge (PINWR) for more than 16 years. She will take us through a typical day and season at her study site and give us some of the highlights and lowlights of her work with these birds. She’ll also talk about other wildlife she runs into in her study area. Her project started out as part of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Project, which was discontinued mainly for lack of funding. However, she continued the study as a volunteer research biologist for the Washington Maritime NWR Complex out on PINWR. Daughter Karen serves as Lee’s research assistant, and regularly joins her on trips to PINWR. Lee received a Master of Science degree from Humboldt State University, and did her Master’s thesis on a pair of pigeon guillemots nesting in Discovery Bay. Following graduation, she worked as an endangered species wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Washington DC and at one of the satellite refuges on the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay NWR complex. A 20-year member of Kitsap Audubon and longtime Christmas Bird Count team leader, Lee is currently employed by Pegasus Coffee, a roasting facility that markets fair trade coffee from Bainbridge’s sister island of Ometepe, Nicaragua.

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MEETING LOCATION! KAS membership meetings are held in the meeting room on the lower level of the recently remodeled Poulsbo Library. The address is 700 NE Lincoln Rd. in Poulsbo. Turn off Rte 305 between the Orca North Restaurant and the Poulsbo Dental Center and go down the hill (west) on Lincoln Rd. The Library will be 1 1/2 blocks on the right. Plenty of parking in rear. Level entry to meeting room. Meeting time is 7:00—9:00 PM     Visitors Always Welcome!