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2023
TUE, AUG 1, 2023
Educational Meeting
7-9PM (Zoom)
SAT, AUG 26, 2023
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
TUE, SEP 5, 2023
Educational Meeting
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SAT, SEP 23, 2023
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
TUE, OCT 3, 2023
Educational Meeting
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SAT, OCT 28, 2023
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
TUE, NOV 7, 2023
Educational Meeting
7-9PM (Zoom)
SAT, NOV 25, 2023
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
TUE, DEC 5, 2023
Holiday Potluck AND Board Elections
(In-person and Zoom)
SAT, DEC 23, 2023
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
2024
TUE, JAN 2, 2024
Educational Meeting
(Zoom)7-9PM
SAT, JAN 27, 2024
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
TUE, FEB 6, 2024
Educational Meeting
7-9PM (Zoom)
SAT, FEB 24, 2024
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
TUE, MAR 5, 2024
Educational Meeting
7-9PM (In-person and Zoom)
SAT, MAR 23, 2024
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
TUE, APR 2, 2024
Educational Meeting
7-9PM (Zoom)
SAT, APR 27, 2024
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
TUE, MAY 2, 2024
Educational Meeting
7-9PM (Zoom)
SAT, MAY 18, 2024
"Reading Rendezvous" on the Loussac Library lawn 12-4pm
SAT, MAY 25, 2024
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
TUE, JUN 4, 2024
Educational Meeting
7-9PM (In-person and Zoom)
SAT, JUN 22, 2024
Board Meeting, 5-7PM (Zoom)
SAT, JUN 29, 2024
Bird Club Picnic, Abbott Park, 11AM-3PM
(Info link available in March 2024)
TUE, JUL 2, 2024
NO EDUCATIONAL MEETING UNTIL AUGUST 1
SAT, JUL 27, 2024
Board Meeting, 5-7PM
TUE, AUG 6, 2024
Educational Meeting
7-9PM
Bird of the Month: April 2008
Buttonquail
Archive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Our Bird of the Month for this month are Buttonquail. These miniature quail are perfect to compliment a finch aviary. The buttonquails or hemipodes are a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. Buttonquail were traditionally placed in Gruiformes or Galliformes (the crane and pheasant orders). The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy elevated them to ordinal status as the Turniciformes and basal to other Neoaves either because their accelerated rate of molecular evolution exceeded the limits of sensitivity of DNA-DNA hybridization or because the authors did not perform the appropriate pairwise comparisons or both. Morphological, DNA-DNA hybridization and sequence data (Paton et al., 2003; Fain & Houde, 2004, Paton & Baker 2006) indicate that turnicids correctly belong to the shorebirds (Charadriiformes). They seem to be an ancient group among these, as indicated by the buttonquail-like Early Oligocene fossil Turnipax and the collected molecular data (Paton & Baker 2006). 
This is an Old World group, which inhabits warm grasslands. These are small drab running birds, which avoid flying. The female is the brighter of the sexes, and initiates courtship. The male incubates the eggs and tends the young. All but one (the Quail-plover, Ortyxelos meiffrenii) of the 15 species are in the genus Turnix.
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