64th Meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society
September 28 - 30, 2012
Southwestern College
Winfield, Kansas
Join KOS members for a weekend of paper presentations and birding in central Kansas.
Fall Meeting Program
Call for Papers
Registration Information
(PDF)
Registration Form
Only (PDF)
Map of Southwestern
College (PDF)
Sorry - no online registration option.
Schedule of Events
Friday, September 28
7:00-9:00 p.m. Registration and informal reception in Beech Science
Center.
Saturday, September 29
(Detailed Saturday Schedule)
8:00 a.m. Registration and donuts at Darbeth Hall. Silent auction
setup in Presidents Gallery, Darbeth Hall.
9:00 a.m. Welcome and paper session in Messenger Auditorium.
11:00 a.m. Business meeting.
11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Lunch for attendees and meeting of the board in
Roy L. Smith Student Center. Lunch in the college cafeteria is available to
everyone. The price is $6.00 for all you can eat.
1:302:30 p.m. Birdwatchers' Hour.
2:304:00 p.m. Paper session. Silent auction ends.
4:004:30 p.m. Business meeting.
6:307:30 Banquet in Roy L. Smith Student Center
7:309:00 p.m. Awards and speaker, Messenger Hall.
Our post-banquet speaker, Eugene Young, will present Wind farms and wildlife
issues in Kansas: The process, past, and future. Gene is a professor of biology
at Northern Oklahoma College and co-author of Birds of Kansas. He is also editor
of the Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin and the Oklahoma Ornithological
Society Bulletin. He has studied avian mortality associated with transmission
towers (TV and cell phone) and wind farms for 20 years. For the past 14 years,
his research has emphasized pre- and post- construction wildlife studies at
proposed and built wind farms, especially with birds and bats. Gene will provide
an overview of the environmental process for building wind farms, requirements
for wildlife studies, the history of wind farm development, the known and
unknown impacts to wildlife, and the future of wind farm development and
sighting requirements.
Sunday, September 30
6:30 a.m.Half-day field trip locations may include Winfield City Lake,
Slate Creek Wetlands, Grouse Creek, Thompson Pasture and other locations.
NoonLunch and compilation at Lions Pavilion, Island Park.
Lodging in Winfield
Hotels:
Comfort Inn: (620) 221-7529, $114.99, single; $119.00 double.
Econolodge: (620) 221-9050, $65.00.
Sonner Motor Inn: (620)221-4400,$54.00, single; $60.00, double.
Super 8: (620) 229-8888, $74.69, single; $80.99, double.
Town House: (620) 221-2110, $44.00, single; $50.78, double.
Bed and Breakfasts:
Iron Gate: (620) 221-7787
Barns at Timber Creek: (620) 221-2797
Bluestem B&B: (620) 221-0735
Camping:
Winfield City Lake
Winfield Fairgrounds
Dining
Plenty of restaurants may be found in Winfield. Explore Main and 9th streets.
Registration
The meeting registration fee is $20. The Saturday evening banquet
is $20 for those who paid the registration fee and $30 for those who did not.
The Sunday box lunch is $7. Unless presenting, students will pay a $5
registration fee. Any registration received after September 15 will carry a $10
surcharge.
The registration form may be found
here (as a pdf
file). All participants must sign the liability release in order to
participate in any portion of this meeting.
Mail completed registration form and payment to:
Terry Mannell
218 Northridge
Hays, KS 67601
Silent auction
Members and guests are strongly encouraged to bring donated items for the Silent
Auction. Suitable donations include birding-themed equipment, field guides, bird
houses, bird baths and optics. All proceeds go to the KOS Student Research Fund.
Best Bird of the
Year
Nomination for unusual or rare birds observed since
September 30, 2011.
Please send your nominations to Eugene Young, Northern Oklahoma College, 1220 E. Grand. PO Box 310, Tonkawa, OK 74653-0310; or Eugene.Young@north-ok.edu. Be sure to include the species, location and name(s) of the observor(s).