An FYI forwarded by Katrina Heinzen at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, from an original email sent out by our outreach coordinator, David Wright. As you will see, this speaker has done much research on social dynamics among birdwatchers and also has many ideas on how to encourage minority youth in careers in environmental sciences. Hope you can join us for this intriguing and important discussion. Hello Friends and Colleagues, Please attend if you can, and certainly please feel free to forward this to your clubs, friends, community groups, school contacts etc. Thanks. The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes renews its Environmental Town Hall Series *A Conversation with John C. Robinson * *author of* *"Birding for Everyone: Encouraging People of Color to Become Birdwatchers**" * Presented the evening of Friday, February 13th, 2009 7:30pm A wildlife biologist and ornithologist for the US Department of Interior and the US Department of Agriculture, Robinson will discuss his newest book *"Birding for Everyone: Encouraging People of Color to Become Birdwatchers". *He is a national expert on birding --studying birds *and* the social dynamics of the bird-watching community. He is a guest lecturer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the author of five books on birds, nature, and the environment. John C. Robinson will also lead a bird hike at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes as part of the *Great Backyard Bird Count*, on Saturday morning February 14th, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. For reservations, call 216-321-5935, ext. 233 or email: [log in to unmask] (The Nature Center receives no tax support—donations for this event are gladly accepted) David Wright Outreach & Audience Development Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44120 Phone: 216-321-5935 ext 233 Fax: 216-321-1869 www.shakerlakes.org Explore Nature, Inside & Out ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]