Schedule of Events-2010

Thursday - February 25, 2010
Registration at Holiday Inn of Morgan City
3:30pm to 5:00pm

Photography Workshop with C.C. Lockwood  Beginning at 2:00pm 

• Minimum of 10 students and maximum of 16
• Seminar will be held from 2pm- 4pm at the Atchafalaya Golf Course in Patterson
• Field trip to Bayou Black beginning at 9am on Feb. 26
• To register, please call 225-769-4766 or email msrafttrip@aol.com
• This event requires separate registration and payment
• Click here to take you to the Photography Workshop Registration page

Opening Night Reception - 6pm to 8pm

• Meet and Greet for 5th annual Eagle Expo attendees at the Louisiana State Museum in Patterson, Louisiana.
  Sponsored by the Black Bear Conservation Committee.

Friday, February 26, 2010
Registration at Holiday Inn of Morgan City
7am to 9am, 11am to 1pm, and 3pm to 5pm

Click here for Tour Descriptions

Tours - 9am to 11am

• Atchafalaya Basin - Cajun Jack
• Turtle Bayou Tour with Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program (BTNEP) & the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LWF)

Tours - 1pm to 3pm

• Atchafalaya Basin - Cajun Jack
• Turtle Bayou Tour with BTNEP & LWF
• Bayou Black - Cajun Man (minimum 17 people)

Dinner at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City- 6:30pm

• Guest Speaker: Kurt Mutchler, deputy director of photography at National Geographic magazine, is responsible for overseeing the editing of all photographic content for the magazine.  Mutchler has been working at the magazine for 15 years.  Previously, he was photo and graphics editor at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.  The topic of his presentation is "The Inside Story: Photographing Animal Behavior in the Wild".

Saturday, February 27, 2010
Registration at Holiday Inn of Morgan City
6:30am to 7:30am

Breakfast & Seminars - Holiday Inn of Morgan City
7am to 7:30am 

Presentations

• 7:30am to 8am
  "An Overview of the American Bald Eagle throughout the US"
  Deborah Fuller, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• 8:05am to 8:35am
  
  "Status and identification of eagles and other large, dark, confusing raptors in Louisiana"
  Donna L. Dittmann and Steven W. Cardiff are collections managers at the LSU Museum of Natural Science.  Donna manages the Genetic Resources Collection-the worl's largest frozen tissue repository.  She is also the museum's specimen preparator.  Steve is manager of the Bird and Mammal collections.  In addition to their involvement in ornithological research projects in Louisiana and elsewhere, both are also members of the Louisiana Bird Records Committee, with Donna serving as the Secretary and Steve as the Chair.  Donna is a longtime technical advisor to Birding magazine (she also appeared in a recent Birding interview:http://www.aba.org/birding/v40n5p22.pdf, and has also served on the American Birding Association Checklist Committee.  Steve is currently the regional editor for the Arkansas-Louisiana seasonal summaries in the journal North American Birds.  Donna and Steve have co-authored numerous identification articles on Louisiana birds, including those available at www.losbird.org .
• 9:20am to 10:20am
  "Saving Birding Habitats"
  Melanie Driscoll, Director of Bird Conservation, Audubon Gulf Coast Initiative
• 10:25am to 11:00am
  "Adventures in Eagles: Bald & Golden"
  Bill Clark, photographer, author & lecturer, Birds of Prey

11:10am to 1:30pm-Lunch on your own

2pm to 4:00pm - Tours

• Atchafalaya Basin - Cajun Jack
• Bayou Chene - BTNEP and Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries
• Bayou Black - Cajun Man (minimum of 17 people)