A Bird's Eye View

Audubon Society of Omaha A Chapter of National Audubon Society

September 2001 Vol. 30 No. 7

Down Under With Lorikeets, Cockatoos,

Petrels and Echidnas

By Clem Klaphake The first program at the September ing with the environment. 13 general meeting will be presented by long-time ASO Though she has lived in Omaha for member and past president Betty the past 15 years, she can't hide her Allen. She will take us along on a Massachusetts accent. She earned trip she made to Australia with the her Masters Degree from the Victor Emanuel Nature Tours. University of North Carolina in the field of Public Health. Prior to Betty moved to Omaha in 1984 and retirement, she worked as Chief since that time has held numerous Nurse and Executive Director of a positions in a number of nature- home health agency. related organizations. She served as president of ASO for two years and Betty will share her three-week trip on the board for ten years, (and great bird photos) across president of the Nebraska Australia with us on Thursday, Ornithologists' Union for two years, September 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the president of the Fontenelle Nature Hanscom Park Methodist Church, Photographer's Club for one year, 4444 Frances Street. Along with the and continues her memberships and great variety of birds, you will see volunteer work today in these and great photos of some reptiles and other organizations. mammals.

Having had a long-time interest in Following the presentation, a short many facets of the natural world, business meeting will be held. The Betty has studied and attended evening will conclude with coffee, workshops on birds, butterflies, cookies and conversation. prairies, botany and most issues deal Look for Warblers and More at Indian Cave Park Sept. 8

Indian Cave State Park is the binoculars, and insect repellent. destination of our September field trip on Saturday, September We should see many early fall 8.Participants will meet at 8:00 migrants including warblers, orioles, a.m. in the parking lot, south side tanagers and other passerines on our of Penny's, Southroads Shopping September field trip. Center in Bellevue. Butterfly enthusiasts should see Dick Rasmussen and Duane Bright some zebra swallowtails and maybe will lead us to the Park, which is the southern dogface. Monarchs are about 80 miles south of Bellevue on congregating and migrating. the Nemaha/Richardson County line. A state park permit is required, and there is a one dollar toll at the We will car pool down I-29 to the Bellevue Bridge. Refer any questions Brownville exit, Hwy 136, then just to Dick Rasmussen, 731-3939, or west of Brownville we will take Duane Bright, 291-6495. Hwy 67 south to the park. Be sure to bring a camera, picnic lunch, Annual Bird Seed Sale A new kind of fundraiser. October 20-21 A shopping event at Sally Hansen, Bird Seed Sale Chair, Younkers. A donation to announces the dates for the 2001 ASO that comes back to sale. On Saturday and Sunday, you. October 20 and 21, we will be loading your bird seed for you from See "Have Our Cake and sites to be announced in a mailing Eat It Too," Page 3. to former customers and in the October Bird's Eye View.

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Scholarly Notes by Eric Scholar

A New Start 2% of America's annual tors catch sight of the oil demand, and there huge snow-and-ice- The new Board of are other ways to make covered peak. Directors has this up, including conservation and new In Kenai Fjords Park had its first meeting and improved we took a one-day with several newcomers exploration and wildlife cruise to a joining us. I appreciate production techniques. series of islands, their willingness to help home to many nesting by volunteering. That is A second point is that pelagic birds. Along the only way we can the public doesn't want the way, we had great succeed as an the drilling to be done at sightings of a organization. this time, with repeated humpback whale, polls showing 60-70% of Dalls' porpoises, I want to thank Garry the respondents wanting Stellers' sea lions and Mick for his efficient the Refuge harbor seals. I added and timely work in protected.Apparently 16 birds to my life list keeping the the word is out that such (mostly Alcids). And membership list activity would put at risk we were excited to updated and providing migration and calving view several glaciers labels. Garry is passing areas for caribou along from up close. these task on to others. with the habitat of polar, Eunice Levisay deserves grizzly and black bears, Our visit also took us thanks for organizing a musk oxen and millions to two noteworthy great picnic in July at of migratory birds. museums, one in the Rookery for ASO Seward. Funded partly members. It was a The writer summed up by money from Exxon lovely evening with fine the editorial by stating after the Valdez oil food and congeniality. that the ANWR is special. spill, it contains To exploit it at this exhibits about the sea Alaska in the News juncture risks too much life of Alaska and a damage for too little center for research This month and return. into the rehabilitation probably for the next of injured birds and Needless to say, I was mammals. few months, our 49th most pleased with the State will be in the World-Herald's position. The Alaska Native news with respect to Unfortunately, the House Heritage Museum in the energy bill before approved the bill, which Anchorage is an Congress, which will now goes to the U.S. impressive place allow drilling in the Senate. containing several Arctic National Wildlife outdoor habitat Refuge. We will again Vacationing in the exhibits relating to be asked to write 49th native Alaskan ethnic letters expressing our groups. opinion about this In a somewhat related Alaska offers so much crucial bill. (See article topic, Jackie and I spent else, other parks and on Page 4) Some of you 10 days in Alaska in July natural areas. I have already contacted as part of our vacation. enjoyed the natural your congressmen. Although we didn't make beauty of the places it to the ANWR, we did With respect to Alaska we visited. I fervently spend some time in and the ANWR, I want hope this beauty will Denali National Park and to comment on the be preserved. Kenai Fjords National Omaha World-Herald's Park. position on drilling in Calendar the Arctic. We have I am sure several of you often disagreed with have been there, but if Sept 5 (Wed) Board them on environmental you haven't traveled to Meeting issues, but a July 24 Alaska yet, I highly editorial, "Scrap the recommend a trip in Sept 6 (Thur) Bird ANWR Drilling," your future. We saw a deserves our highest Club Hike Sept 8 very small area of the (Sat) Field Trip approval. The editorial huge state. Both parks refers to President were quite beautiful, Sept 10 (Mon) Bush's Energy Bill then with many types of Conserv/Legis. in the U.S. House of wildlife. In Denali we Meeting Representatives. The saw grizzlies, caribou, writer believes much of moose and Dall sheep as Sept 13 (Thu) the bill deserves well as smaller General Meeting passage, but Bush's mammals. desire to drill for oil Sept 27 (Thur) and gas in the ANWR is On our last day we were Naturestudy misguided. privileged to have a great view of Mt. Oct 20-21 Bird The writer's first point McKinley. We learned Seed Sale is that the amount of that, because the oil to be extracted isn't mountain is usually in great. Estimates vary the clouds, only 25% of but the field is likely to visi be tapped at a rate of about

All About Hawks - Sept. 27 Nature Study and Oct. 7 Field Trip

By Clem Klaphake and Nelli Falzgraf Clem Klaphake will lead a study group on vantage of rising air currents and use the hawk identification at nearby Loess Hills as a migratory route. Audubon the Rookery, Heron Haven, Thursday, Join Clem Klaphake to study slides of Chapter September 27, at raptors Thursday, September 27, at 7:00 Members' 7:00 p.m. p.m. at the Rookery building, Heron Haven, and to view migrating raptors at the Retreat The session will Hitchcock Nature Area on Sunday, October Saturday, prepare us for the 7. Refer questions to 292-9687 or 292-2276. Sunday, October 7, November 3 field trip to the Hitchcock Hawk An Audubon Chapter Watch, to be led by members' retreat will Clem. The Hitchcock be held on November 3 Nature Area is just at the Platte River north of Crescent, Whooping Crane Trust Iowa, in the Loess headquarters, north of Hills. The HNC asks for Alda. $2 per visit or $20 a year per person. New local and national developments within We will meet there at Audubon and other 9:00 a.m. If you wish topics will be to spend several hours, discussed. Details will you may want to bring be given in next a lunch and drink. If month's issue. the hawks aren't moving, we can hike some of the many nearby trails. The area is also good for Have Our Cake and Eat It Too! migrants other than raptors. Younkers at Westroads has three items at Younkers, invited ASO to participate in three tickets will be Clem will pique our their exclusive 2001 Holiday needed to receive the interest in raptors and Benefit Sale fundraiser $5.00-off each item. the Hawk Watch with November 10. With each Customers of Younkers facts about these birds $5.00 you donate to ASO can also pre-sell, which and their amazing between now and November means you can shop up skills. To maximize 10, we of ASO will send you to two weeks before the soaring, they use rising a $5.00-off coupon to use date of the sale (Nov. air currents or during Younkers' Holiday 10) and have your items thermals, produced Benefit Sale. In other words, held to be rung up as when the sun heats the 100% of the ticket sales will soon as the computer earth and warm stay with ASO, and you can reflects the sale prices pockets of air rise use your coupon toward a of the day. Customers above the cooler, $5.00 discount on a may pick up their items denser air. purchase of your choice at on the day of the sale or "Obstructions" like the Younkers during their sale. any day after the sale if 200 ft. high Loess Hills ASO's Board has set our goal they make pre-sell of western Iowa of ticket sales at two arrangements with the produce updrafts from hundreds tickets at $5.00 clerk in the store. the prevailing westerly for a total of $1,000. We can wind, keeping the have our cake and eat it, Customers who come to birds aloft. too! the sale from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Many raptors are large, There will be no limit to the Saturday, November 10, with wings and tails to number of tickets you may will receive not only match. The long wings purchase. If, for example, Younkers' lowest prices of buteos like you would like to buy for the season but also Swainson's Hawks and complimentary food, falcons like the performances Peregrine allow for throughout the store, excellent vertical lift. and door prizes, and The broad wings of can participate in a accipiters like Cooper's silent auction. Hawks provide large Count me in! I want to help with ASO's fundraiser. Here is my surface areas in donation of ______to the Audubon Society of Omaha, 11809 relation to weight, and Old Maple Road, Omaha NE 68164. Send me _____coupons to that means less energy Younkers' Holiday Benefit Sale. is needed to sustain flight. Name______

The broad tails of Address______eagles and hawks are used for air support ______and balance, steering and braking in the air.

With large size for stability in the face of upper level winds and the maneuverability honed by predatory skills, raptors are equipped to take ad 4

Environmental/ Legislative Action By Ione Werthman

Been There? Done cumulations in complex definitely will suffer from the rapid melting of their habitat. Several animal That? geological formations species are already mysteriously declining in Alaska, and some scientists are on the Refuge instead attributing this to warming trends. How many times should of one giant field like we have Prudhoe Bay. Because That's why it is now up to us to convince the Senate to save the Refuge. It's each drilling platform likely the Senate will begin discussing its energy policy bill when they return to to call or write to our takes up as little as 10 Washington in early September. Senators and acres, the 2,000-acre Representatives to limit would allow oil Please! Please! Once more - call or write again to both of our Senators: make them understand companies to spread Senator Chuck Hagel that we do not want out over practically the the Arctic National entire Refuge. Wildlife Refuge opened U.S. Senate Prudhoe Bay was once up to oil and gas called the height of drilling? I have Washington, D.C. 20510 responsible drilling. discussed this in However, since 1996, Phone: 202-224-4224 previous newsletters. drilling results in spills We've been there! But and pollution at the Fax: 202-224-5213 —have we done "that"? Bay and the Trans- Did you do your part? Atlantic Pipeline have Omaha phone: 402-758-8981 We've got to do it. One resulted in an average more time. [email protected] of 427 spills of diesel All three of our and crude oil annually Senator Ben Nelson Nebraska on the north slope. representatives—Doug Three large oil spills U.S. Senate Bereuter, Tom Osborne, have already been and Lee Terry—voted reported this year, Washington, D.C. 20510 not to protect our resulting in over 13,000 Phone: 202-224-6551 environment. gallons of crude oil being spilled. Fax: 202-228-0012 They voted to damage These facts are telling the unspoiled coastal Omaha Phone: 402-391-3411 plain of the Refuge. me it is a myth that oil companies can drill and They voted to continue [email protected] to allow light trucks to leave the area without a footprint. Prudhoe guzzle more gas than Join us for a new round of Audubon Environmental/Legislative Action meetings Bay is now the home to other passenger cars, the rest of this year: September 10, October 1, November 5, and December 3, an industrial complex and they voted to 7:30 -9:00 p.m. at the ASO office, Heron Haven, 11809 Old Maple Road. provide $36.4 billion in so large that astronauts tax breaks and report seeing it clearly Birdline subsidies to industries from space. that provide oil, gas, Thus another question coal, electric and comes to mind. Do the For an update on the sightings in the state, call 292-5325. nuclear energy. roads in getting to the Rep. Terry in one of his equipment count in Report your sightings after listening to the tape. Public Pulse letters, that 2,000 acre total? Omaha World-Herald, What about airports, August 8, stated, "This housing and buildings bill would allow needed for the 700,000 exploration and new jobs that development (on the supposedly will be created as advocated Refuge) only after it is first proved that there by the Teamsters would be no significant Union? Will they be adverse effect on counted in the 2,000 wildlife, their habitat acres? You and I both or the environment in know they won't be. general. Accordingly, Oil drilling in Prudhoe most estimates place Bay also creates 43,000 the above-ground area tons of nitrogen oxides affected by drilling at a year, twice as much only 2,000 of ANWR's as that of the City of 19.5 million acres." Washington, D.C. Many argue, too, that The problem with that petroleum geologists rationality, as I see it, miss a larger point: is that the 2,000 acres that global warming do not have to be from the burning of contiguous. The drilling fossil fuel presents an will not occur in just even greater potential one 2,000-acre area danger to Arctic but will be spread ecosystems. hither and yon throughout the whole Polar bears may or may area, with only the not be affected by areas in which the seismic thumping, but equipment touches the they ground to be counted in that 2,000 total acreage.

Recent U.S. Geological Survey studies conclude that potential oil reserves are located in many small ac

A Walk at Spring Creek Prairie Marsh Hike & Talk with Bird Club

By Mary Mick September 6 Peace and quiet, birds their lunch hour. They and butter are most ASO is invited to join Jerry Toll and the Fontenelle Nature Association Bird Club for a marsh field knowledgeable and trip and open-book duck discussion with mounted waterfowl as identification aids. flies, colorful spring eager to assist visitors. wildflowers—a rare, Autumn Fowler, We'll meet at the FNA floodplain in Bellevue at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, September 6. Bring field guides preserved place with Development and binoculars. Call Howard Mattix (896-0352) if you have questions. history and nature Coordinator, told us the combined into one. historical background The Audubon Spring of the park and its Creek Prairie is such a geological formation. place. The retreat of a glacier left the area strewn During the ASO spring with boulders, making banquet in May, Dave it undesirable to Sands, Executive developers. The rocky Vote to be Delayed on Discontinuance Amendment Director of Audubon terrain and rolling hills Nebraska, glowingly also discouraged A change is hereby made to the notice in the Summer Bird's Eye View, page 5, regarding the described Spring Creek cultivation. It was proposed bylaws changes to our constitution, to be voted on by all members present at the Prairie, a place suitable for grazing and September 13 general meeting. obviously close to his was owned by the same heart. His enthusiasm family, the O'Briens, The amendment to Article IX, Discontinuance (see last item, page 6 of the Summer Bird's Eye View that night made me from 1903 until 1998. has been returned to the bylaws committee for revision and review by the Board and will not be want to see it for The last family included in the changes and amendments to be voted. myself. member, Kathie O'Brien, hoped to save All other bylaws changes will be voted on September 13, as stated on page 5, Summer newsletter. In mid-June my her family's land from husband, Garry, and I being subdivided into drove to Denton, 25 development acreages. miles southwest of She approached Dave Lincoln, to this Sands and Audubon peaceful place. A rare, Nebraska about a way never-cultivated 500- to save it. acre tallgrass prairie rolls over the gradual Audubon was deeply hills. The grass sways interested in in the soft wind, preserving one of the spotted with the color largest remaining of many wildflowers in tallgrass prairies in the bloom. The brilliant state. Its history added pink of purple poppy to its appeal. Grants mallow and slender and donations made white spikes of prairie way for the purchase. larkspur draw the eye If you find an injured across the landscape. bird of prey, please contact a Raptor Busy, hungry butterflies Recovery Center flutter through the volunteer at 402-734- grass or gather in a wet 6817 A new nature spot on the path. A center will be built in variety of birds— the future. It is hoped Dickcissels, Yellow- that an architect who billed Cuckoos, will incorporate green Bluebirds, Eastern construction will be Kingbirds—cross the found, so that the sky. Few man-made center will provide sounds disturb the examples for visitors to peace of the natural adapt for use in their world. A lonesome own homes, as well as train whistle in the tech them about the distance only adds to prairie. the atmosphere, and a jet overhead reminds If you need a respite us how lucky we are to from noisy city life or be in this unique place your hectic routine, in a busy world. take a drive to Denton and enjoy this The mowed grass trails successful Audubon are easy to walk, preservation project. winding around ravine ends, over bridges, and through the prairie near the wagon tracks. Part of the cutoff from Nebraska City to Fort Bluebird Monitors Need to Report Kearny leading to the Oregon Trail rain It is time for bluebird monitors to boxes open to competing species. through this prairie. report their results to our coordinator, Many wagon trains Jim McLochlin. A vital part of If you are presently a monitor, you need to call Jim, at 933-4638. passed this way in the monitoring a bluebird trail is reporting 1860's and left tracks the results. Lately many monitors have If you have maintained a trail in the past and have discontinued the work, you which are still visible— been neglecting this important task. also need to report to Jim so that the trail can be closed out or assigned to one of the few places another person. where they have not Some trails may no longer be been erased by maintained and monitored, leaving the cultivation and weather.

As we walked the trails, we met two staff members enjoying a hike during

6 The Omaha Raptor Team

A Committee of ASO

mises, whereas 60% of rural households keep cats.

Because people feed cats, their populations easily soar out of control. The toll on birds is hard to calculate, but careful investigation reveals that pet cats are a strong factor on their mortality.

When the bird is a threatened or endangered species, the results can be as disastrous as Has the Omaha Raptor summer at area extinction. Team fi libraries. It's been a great experience to Cat predation has the nally hit the big time? expand the circle of most dire effects on That certainly seemed education to everyone. small "islands" of to be the case when Our hope is for this habitat. If bird and we entered the city of knowledge to keep populations are already Valley, Nebraska. wildlife and the low or stressed, the Printed on the city environment alive. problem can be marquee for all to see critical. was one of the largest As the summer draws greetings we've ever to a close, we'll start Some mistaken beliefs received for a again this autumn with are responsible for pet program! our classroom visits, owners allowing cats allowing us the access to birds and Our feathered opportunity to meet other wildlife. Some volunteers are well and teach new people. believe that feeding read, now that they've In the meantime, finish cats will deter them spent so much time your summer with from killing, when in this summer in safety and sun. See you fact, cats often do not libraries. This photo is soon. eat what they kill. just one example of Some believe allowing the many reading the cat to roam at programs we attended night will reduce the this likelihood of its hunting. In fact, cats have an advantage at night. They have excellent vision and birds at night are in a state of torpor, making tinent. Because they them easy prey. have become an The Wildlife Society Exotic species to North America, accepted part of our environment, they are summarizes its policy toward cats. Among feral and free-ranging cats are known to be considered "natural," other objectives, they widespread and serious threats to native wildlife but these, our pet cats, seek to: populations and ecosystems. Wildlife managers have the most adverse impact on wildlife find themselves challenged by the public's lack of ¨ Approve and species of any exotic information and understanding about the harmful encourage human companion species. impacts of these cats. removal of feral cat Both feral and free-ranging domestic cats are colonies. exotic species to this con Their numbers in the urban and rural U.S. ¨ Support the creation are estimated to have and enforcement of been nearly 65 million ordinances prohibiting in 2000, up from 30 public feeding of feral million in 1970. About cats and releasing 30% of households unwanted pets or feral nationwide have cats cats in the wild. on the pre ¨ Encourage education programs calling for a pet cat to be kept indoors, enclosed outdoors or on a leash.

¨ Promote education of pet owners to neuter or spay their pets; encourage pet adoption programs to require potential owners to spay or neuter the pet.

The Wildlife Society concludes by emphasizing that cat owners should take responsibility for their pets.

Cat numbers are great. Cats kill too many birds. Cat owners need to take action to prevent such kills.

Notes from Nature By Jerry Toll

Peregrine Falcons: An Update on the Midwest Restoration Effort

Over the years, ASO has (hacking) at these sites There was no been in were unsuccessful substantial difference volved in many along the lowland river in the adaptability of successful conservation sites of the Mississippi five of the seven efforts. The River. surviving mixed preservation of Jensen subspecies that However, since 1988, Prairie and Heron subsequently bred. hacking attempts along Haven, the effort to the shore of Lake When the decision was restore and preserve Superior were made to begin urban the Platte and Niobrara successful. The young release, no one wanted Rivers, environmental Peregrines encountered cities to be the education and being overwhelming permanent home of the legislative watchdogs predation from Great Peregrine in the are just a few of the Horned Owls and other Midwest. It was hoped myriad ways that have predators. Meanwhile, that eventually consumed ASO's time Cornell University was Peregrines would find a and passion over the demonstrating that way to reclaim their years. young could be historical cliff nesting Another program was successfully hacked sites in the Upper the release of from urban skyscrapers Midwest. That hope Peregrine Falcon chicks and bridges, and the eluded the recovery from the Woodmen Midwest effort shifted plan until this year Tower in downtown in large part to urban when, after a forty- Omaha. ASO members, releases. year absence, acting as surrogate Peregrines finally parents, volunteered It proved very returned to nest at cliff hundreds of hours successful. It was easy sites along the Upper between 1988-1990 to find the people and Mississippi. observing the fledglings the money to bring an take their first endangered and Three factors, it seems, tentative flights into charismatic species finally came together the dangerous world of recovery to cities all to make it happen. The adulthood. across the eight-state Peregrine population When the last chick region of the Upper continues to grow in was fledged, ASO's Midwest. Predation on the region. This led to involvement ceased, the inexperienced fewer suitable breeding but the success of the fledglings was virtually sites being available, effort continues to this nonexistent. There was forcing them out of the day. Every year since, a a ready source of prey cities and onto the Peregrine has tried to species in the form of cliffs. The increased nest on the Woodmen city birds, although this presence of adult Building. The number was not the case in Peregrines along the of young successfully Omaha where migrant river over the last fledged through the Yellow-billed Cuckoos decade has challenged years varied, as can be were preferred. the dominance of Great expected when you are Horned Owls, educating dealing with wildlife. Finding enough young them to the need for to meet the demands coexistence. According to Tim of the recovery Sauter, who continues schedule fell to The removal from the to monitor the falconry breeders. To Endangered Species List Peregrines for the find and breed enough was the result of a Woodmen Building, of Peregrines successfully concerted, dedicated the 31 eggs hatched, 19 when the species was effort by many have survived to virtually extirpated agencies, organizations, fledge. Each young from eastern North and individuals who produced went into the America proved a pulled together to pool of the Midwest daunting task. The make it happen. The population. On August decision was made Endangered Species Act 25, 1999, Peregrines early that enough pure requires that any were removed from the anatoms, the species delisted should Endangered Species subspecies of the continue to be List. This year Zeus and eastern U.S, could not monitored to insure Amelia produced three be found. Therefore, recovery. The proposed young after having lineages from seven Peregrine monitoring stayed all winter. subspecies were will consist of five included to a lesser surveys of 20% of the The Midwest effort to degree. population every three restore the Peregrine The Midwest recovery years. Falcon population was effort came under led by a team at the criticism for this University of Minnesota action, because all of School of Veterinary the other eastern Science. Dr. Pat Redig releases were using developed the recovery only anatums. The plan and initiated it. concern was that using Peregrines historically other subspecies would nested in the Upper adversely affect the Midwest at cliff sites. long-term survival of Early attempts at the population. In their releasing birds recently published paper, Bud Tordoff and Pat Redig state this was not the case. National Addresses to Remember Audubon Memorials Society President George W. Bush The Audubon Membership Society of Omaha The White House,1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Application greatly appreciates Washington D.C. 20500-0001 The Audubon Magazine and your membership card will be sent to this address: the memorials it receives. Name Comments: 202-456-1111; fax: 202-456-2993 When sending your Senator Ben Nelson Street gift, please identify the person City State U.S. Senate, Washington DC 20510; fax 202-228-0012 you wish to memorialize. Omaha address: 7602 Pacific St, #205, 68114 Please also give the name and Senator Chuck Hagel address of the person to be U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510-2705 notified. Phone: (202) 224-4224

Fax: (202) 224-5213

If you find Omaha phone: (402) 758-8981 an injured bird of Representative Lee Terry prey, please U.S. House of Representatives,Washington, DC 20515 contact a Raptor Phone: (202) 225-4155 ; Fax: (202) 226-5452 Recovery Center Omaha phone: (402) 397-9944 volunteer Representative Douglas Bereuter at 402- 734-6817 U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-4806; fax (202) 225-5686

Lincoln phone: (402) 438-1598

Governor Michael Johanns

Capitol Bldg, Box 94848 Lincoln, NE 68509

Phone: (402) 471-2244; Fax: 471-6031

Mayor Hal Daub

Omaha/Douglas Civic Center

1819 Farnam St, Omaha NE 68183

Phone: 444-5000 Hot Line: 444-5555 Audubon Society of Omaha, 11809 Old Maple Road, Omaha 68164

Phone: 445-4138 Elected Officers:

President Eric Scholar, 5012 Nicholas St, Omaha 68132 551-5045

1st Vice President Clem Klaphake, 707 Garden Avenue, Bellevue 68005 292-2276

2nd Vice President Nelli Falzgraf, 414 Ridgewood Dr, Bellevue 68124 292-9687

Past President Lisa Peterson, 8911 Q St, Apt 212C, Omaha 68127 453- 9146

Treasurer Garry Mick, 7045 Glendale Avenue, Omaha 68152 571-4648

Recording Secretary Rosemary Holeman, 5805 Hartman Ave, Omaha 68104 455-9919

Corresponding Secy Kay Strong, 4716 Virginia St, Omaha 68157 738- 1774

Elected Directors Jackie Scholar, 5012 Nicholas St, Omaha 68132 551- 5045

Sue Mattix, 15204 Monroe St, Omaha 68137 896-0352

Cal Wolf, 13720 Wright St, Omaha 68144 333-8811

Bob Fuchs, 1113 Dillon Dr, Omaha 68132 553-8242

Paul Kardell, 1112 South 218th St, Elkhorn NE 68022 289-9864

Jo Bartikoski, 1614 No. 53rd St Omaha 68104 551-6009

Standing Committee Chairpersons:

Conservation Ione Werthman, 11649 Burt St, #011, Omaha 68154 493- 0373

Education Brian Jensen, 12430 Bel Drive, Omaha NE 68144 333-6375

Field Trip Dick Rasmussen, 4503 So 16th St, Omaha 68107 731-3939

Finance Nelli Falzgraf, 414 Ridgewood Dr, Bellevue 68005 292-9687

Fund Raising Steve Lamphere, 3101 Washington St, #98, Bellevue 68005 291-9149

Hospitality DwanDean Leach, 3006 Poppleton, Omaha 68105 346-5769

Membership Bechara Embaid, 3218 No. 120th Court Apt. 221, Omaha 68164 965-9598

Natural Areas Mgt Vacant

Omaha Raptor Team Jenny Henricksen, 4845 So 167 Ave 68135 895- 5487

Program Clem Klaphake, 707 Garden Avenue, Bellevue 68005 292-2276

Publication Laurine Blankenau, 3808 Grebe, Omaha 68112 451-3647

Publicity Kathy Schwery, 3616So 96th St, Omaha 68124 397-7343

Non-Proft Organization

U.S. Postage Paid

OMAHA, NEBRASKA

PERMIT NO. 79 Other Activities:

Speakers Bureau Ione Werthman, 11649 Burt St, #011, Omaha 68154 493-0373

Naturestudy Nelli Falzgraf, 414 Ridgewood Dr. Bellevue 68005 292-9687 Bird Seed Sale Sally Hansen, 2330 Bel Court #12, Omaha 68144 334- 2329

Historian Kathleen Rose, 123 Bellevue Blvd So, Bellevue 68005 292- 8912

Audubon Nebr Director Dave Sands, P. O. Box 117, Denton NE 68339...... (402) 797-2301

NAS Board Member Dave Tylka, [email protected]

Audubon Society of Omaha

11809 Old Maple Road

Omaha NE 68164