Audubon News Volume 17, Issue 9 What’s inside Cicadas


ANC Annual Meeting Field Trips Lights Out


Summer Reading Upcoming Events


05/05 Latta Park 05/19 Beginning Bird Walk 05/19 Carolina Sandhills NWR 05/25 Anne Springs Close Grnwy. 06/07 Picnic


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P.O. Box 221093 Charlotte, NC 28222


Monthly Meeting: Thursday, May 3, 2012 • 7:30 PM Take a break from studying those in-


coming Warbler songs and come listen to another prominent forest sound you may encounter...Cicadas!


For MAS’s May meeting, our own Dr.


Ken Kneidel, will guide you through a lab activity focused on the identification of cicadas common in the Charlotte area. We’re going to change up our meet- ing format a bit from the usual lecture style to a science lab activity. With dried specimens in hand, magnifying glass, di- chotomous key, and a power point at your disposal, you should leave with some solid skill in identifying our summer and fall cicadas by sight and sound. Come out and see the Cicadas like the birds do. Up-close and personal!


So take a trip back to school and join us on Thursday, May 3rd at the Tyvola Senior


2012 Election Slate Bill Duston


Jim Pugh Jill Palmer Chris Hanna


For complete details go to http://goo.gl/4K442 Audubon North Carolina and the Cape


Who’s New?


MARCIA HOWDEN KELLY MOORE


Fear Audubon Society are pleased to welcome all members, friends, and bird enthusiasts to the 2012 Annual Meet- ing being held from June 1-3 in beautiful Wilmington, North Carolina.


One of North Carolina’s most historic cities, Wilmington is located at the center of the Cape Fear region which includes Pender, New Hanover, and Brunswick Counties. This area is one of North Caro- lina’s birding and botanical hotspots with some of the highest concentrations of bird and plant species in the state. In a Birder’s


Guide to Coastal North Carolina, John Fussell states that over 400 species have been identified along our coast. A high percentage of those can be found in the Cape Fear area, which boasts 12 Important Bird Areas and 20 sites on the NC Birding Trail. Black Skimmers and Least Terns are easily viewed nesting on several area beaches, while great expanses of tidal salt marsh provide ample opportunity to see wading birds like Tri-colored and Little Blue Herons, and shorebirds such as Clapper Rails,


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Center (2225 Tyvola Road.) at 7:15 PM for light refreshment and chit-chat with the program starting at 7:30 PM.vm


2012 Audubon NC Annual Meeting


2012 Audubon NC Annual Meeting June 1-3, 2012June 1-3, 2012


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