Hello from one of the new kids on the air!

I'm Chris Thody and I hosted my first earth2lincoln radio show on Monday. What fun! I work for the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership as an Outreach Coordinator. My first guest was Mary Bomberger Brown, who is the Program Coordinator for the Partnership.

The Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership helps protect federally and state endangered Interior Least Terns and federally and state threatened Piping Plovers, little birds that nest on sand. Nesting areas in Nebraska include river sandbars, sand and gravel mines, and lakeshore housing developments. The Partnership works together to both protect the birds and allow necessary activity at the housing areas and mine sites.

For more information about Interior Least Terns, Piping Plovers, and the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership, visit our website at http://ternandplover.unl.edu
During our program Mary mentioned a couple of upcoming events. Here is that information:
Tuesday, February 23 - The Annual Nebraska Tern and Plover meeting will be held at Hardin Hall, 3310 Holdrege Street, Lincoln, NE. Registration is from 9:30 to 10:45.

A poster session, and short monitoring and reporting workshop start at 9:30 a.m.; the general welcome starts at 10:45 a.m. and presentations run from 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Lunch will be served (a free will donations gladly accepted). At 6:00 p.m. there will be a reception to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership. Registration is free for this event. You can view the complete schedule (subject to last minute changes) at http://ternandplover.unl.edu
Contact Chris Thody at cthody2@unl.edu or 402-472-8741 for more information and to register.

March 18-20 - The 40th annual Rivers and Wildlife Celebration (crane festival) will be held at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Kearney, Nebraska. Come out and see the most spectacular Sandhill crane migration in the world, where nearly half a million of these birds stop and bulk up for their journey north. For more information, visit the Audubon Nebraska website at www.audubon.nebraska.org.

Thanks for listening to earth2lincoln, and I hope you'll tune in every Monday from 6 to 6:30 p.m.!

Chris