{"id":9816,"date":"2015-03-03T07:29:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2015-02-27T07:39:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T14:39:07","slug":"tucson-museum-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/03\/tucson-museum-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson Museum Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Museum Birding: From the Specimen Drawer to the Field<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thursday, August 13<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>10:30 am<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonaudubon.org\/festival.html\"><strong>Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do we birders know the things we think we know? Where do \u201cfield marks\u201d\u00a0come from? And what on earth do all those dead birds on their backs\u00a0have to do with our hobby as we practice it in the 21st century?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"orioles West Mexican Birds, museum skins 093 by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/2599247532\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3275\/2599247532_b0c410ea81_z.jpg?zz=1\" alt=\"orioles West Mexican Birds, museum skins 093\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join me on August 13 for a two-hour workshop exploring the intimate connections\u00a0between museum specimens and conservation, research, and\u00a0even recreational\u00a0birding. We will discover how collections are formed and maintained, and learn\u00a0about the sometimes surprising results when old specimens are brought to bear on\u00a0new problems.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"whtie fronted front and lilac crowned back parrots West Mexican Birds, museum skins 025 by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/2599255900\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3280\/2599255900_28a60cc0b0_z.jpg?zz=1\" alt=\"whtie fronted front and lilac crowned back parrots West Mexican Birds, museum skins 025\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After an\u00a0introduction to the enduring value of natural history collections,\u00a0we\u00a0will discuss a number of the Southwest\u2019s rarest and most challenging birds,\u00a0illustrated with representative specimens from among the more than\u00a018,000 held by the University of Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Along with stories of collecting adventure, daring, and even foolishness,\u00a0we will all come away with new knowledge we\u00a0can use in the\u00a0field\u2014and a new respect for the sources of that knowledge, sources lying quietly\u00a0on their\u00a0backs in wooden drawers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"West Mexican Birds, museum skins 087 by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/5701101616\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5064\/5701101616_0ba5799f26_z.jpg\" alt=\"West Mexican Birds, museum skins 087\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonaudubon.org\/festival.html\">You can find out more<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.z2systems.com\/np\/clients\/tas\/eventRegistration.jsp?event=1126&amp;\">sign up to participate<\/a>, on the website of the Tucson Bird and Wildlife Festival. See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museum Birding: From the Specimen Drawer to the Field Thursday, August 13 10:30 am Register here How do we birders know the things we think we know? Where do \u201cfield marks\u201d\u00a0come from? And what on earth do all those dead birds on their backs\u00a0have to do with our hobby as we practice it in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/03\/tucson-museum-workshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tucson Museum Workshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9820,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions\/9820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}