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Great Texas Birding Classic Registration
The Great Texas Birding Classic Registration booklets are now available. Please go to www.gcbo.org and click on the Birding Classic icon. The complete Registration booklet, in PDF format, is available there. For teams wanting to register for this year's event, some important deadlines are approaching. The deadline for inclusion of your team name (and team members and sponsor if they are known at this time) in the official event Program has been extended to Friday, February 10, 2006. Please get your team registration forms in as soon as possible in order to meet this deadline and get your team name printed in the Program! The deadline to avoid late fees is March 10, 2006. For more information see www.gcbo.org.
Trips from Texas
TOS Field Trip to Alaska
When: May 29th to June 8th 2006. Where: Alaska: Anchorage, Nome and Prince William Sound with Jim Hailey. This TOS Anchorage/Nome/Prince William Sound Field Trip targets both normal breeding and migrating species and provides an opportunity to catch a few vagrants that drop in on the area only sporadically. The trip begins in Anchorage for the first two days where we will visit Potter Marsh, Westchester Lagoon, Chugach State Park and other local birding hotspots. Then we fly to Nome for four days of hardcore birding along the three roads which lead out of the town in three directions, each about 75 miles long. At Nome we have the added attraction of Safety Lagoon and the presence of many shorebirds, waterfowls, swans, gulls, etc. From Nome we return to the Anchorage area, take a pelagic trip out of Whittier into Prince William Sound, explore the Portage and Turnagain Arm area (and its awesome tidal bore) and do some birding on the Kenai Peninsula. Some target species include-Snow Bunting, Red Phalarope, three puffins, five loons, Bluethroat, Arctic Warbler, two redpolls, eiders, three ptarmigans, two swans, scoters, Harlequin duck, goldeneyes, and Bristle-thighed Curlew. The cost of the trip is $1500.00 for TOS members and $1530.00 for non-TOS members. The cost includes transportation in Alaska, one pelagic trip, guide fees and airfare from Anchorage to Nome to Anchorage. The cost does not include airfare from the Lower 48 to Anchorage to the Lower 48, food or lodging (although Jim has arranged some special lodging rates). The trip has a minimum of six participants and a maximum of nine participants. For registration and additional information contact Trip Leader Jim Hailey at greenj@prontonet.net. Profits from all TOS Field Trips support TOS.
