PSO Meeting 
May 20-22, 2005

The Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology will hold its annual meeting on May 20-22 in Clarion, featuring a strong slate of speakers and field trips hosted by the Seneca Rocks Audubon Society. Events at the Clarion Holiday Inn will include short sessions Saturday afternoon on the Breeding Bird Atlas, research on the Allegheny Plateau, studies of the Golden-winged Warbler, and effects of the spruce budworm outbreak in Canada on nesting populations of birds in the 1970s.

Field trips are scheduled at five western Pennsylvania birding hotspots: Buttermilk Hill Nature Sanctuary, Buzzard Swamp, Clear Creek State Forest, Cook Forest State Park, and the Piney Tract. The Saturday night banquet speaker is Doug Gross, a Pennsylvania Game Commission biologist, who will discuss Northern Saw-whet Owl research in the state. The banquet program will include presentation of the Earl L. Poole Award to Margaret Buckwalter of Clarion County for significant contributions to ornithology in the state. For information on registering, contact Shonah Hunter.