The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Lincolnshire Bird Club
AGM - 7.30pm Tuesday March 25th 2008
The Admiral Rodney, Horncastle
'The birds of Mato Grosso, Brazil: biogeography and conservation prospects'
by Alexander Lees http://www.freewebs.com/alexlees/index.htm
followed by the AGM

More information to follow

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Andrew Chick
Website: http://www.forktail.co.uk/

LBC AGM
The Admiral Rodney, Horncastle
at 7.30pm on Tuesday, March 25th 2008
for a talk on the

'The Birds of Mato Grosso, Brazil: biogeography and conservation prospects'

By Alexander Lees

Alexander lived in Foston (north of Grantham) between 1997-1998 and still returns on a fairly regular basis, he patched Marston STW for much of this time and went ringing with Gordon Priestley and Alan Ball. He is now a postgraduate researcher at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

In 2007 he spent a month on the Rio Jurua, Amazonas State, Brazilian Amazon, based at REDE Bauana Field-station conducting avifaunal inventories in terra firme and varzea forests, and from 2004-2006 he spent 14 months on independent PhD fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon in Mato Grosso and Pará states, surveying birds, large mammals and floristic structure in forest fragments, riparian forest corridors and the non-forest matrix.
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The talk will be followed by the Annual General Meeting (members only)

Agenda

1. Apologies
2. Minutes of the previous AGM and Matters arising from the Minutes
3. Hon Chairwoman’s Address
4 Presentation of the Accounts
5. Reports from the Officers
6. Election of Officers and Committee Members1
7. Election of Auditor2
8 Any other motions previously notified in writing or via email3
9 Any other business

Notes

1.The following officers and committee members are due to retire at this AGM, and all are available for re-election (current post-holders given in brackets): Hon Chair (Anne Goodall), Hon Secretary (Janet Eastmead), Hon Treasurer (Andrew Malkinson), Hon Membership Secretary (Mike Harrison), ordinary members (Ian Nixon, Bill Sterling). Additional proposals for these positions, which must be for a paid-up member, duly seconded and including confirmation that the member proposed is prepared to serve, must be received by the Hon Sec on or before 24 March 2007.

2.The committee proposes that Ms Wendy Beasley be elected as auditor for the calendar year 2008.

3.Motions for debate, which must be proposed and seconded by paid-up members, must be received by the Hon Sec on or before 24 March 2007.

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Andrew Chick
Website: http://www.forktail.co.uk/

The AGM is tonight

Andrew

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Andrew Chick
Website: http://www.forktail.co.uk/

Could next year's AGM be held in a place that's oodles better to get to by public transport?

Getting there by train is impossible from Boston, and if I took the bus I'd have to take one first to either Spilsby or Lincoln, to get onto the Interconnect service that runs between Skegness and Lincoln, which has a stop at Horncastle! Further to this, getting around the county by bus after 18:00 is pretty damn near impossible. Taxis are out because they're prohibitively expensive.

With the current liking for 'green birding', going to Horncastle would have to mean I'd get the most non-green option to get there - the car. And that's only if my dad has time free to take me!

Lincoln would be a far better location!

Why they can't hold it on a weekend during daylight hours beats me.

While ever they hold the AGM at night I for one will NEVER go

Yeah - have the AGM at say, 11:00 AM, then after it's ended, we could go out birdwatching as a group......

This is similar to an arrangement we have at the Pilgrim hospital Radio AGM. We have the meeting on a Sunday, start the meeting at 11:15-ish, then go to the Burton or Ball House for a hot lunch with as many as wants to sit down for a hot meal.

Only I decline, so I can get my afternoon at Freiston in!