September NVBC Meeting: Jackie Howard will be our guest speaker at the September 15 meeting. She will talk about her latest book "Tale Feathers: A Celebration of Birds, Birders and Bird Watching" to which Larry Cartwright, well known to Northern Virginia Bird Club members, is a contributor. She will also talk about her recent birding adventures in Italy and Romania (Danube Delta) and her efforts to establish a bird therapy program for Wounded Warriors at Walter Reed Medical Center. Books will be for sale at the meetings.

Jacquelyn M. Howard is an environmental management specialist, naturalist, avian field biologist, and writer. She holds a BS in Agriculture from the University of Vermont and a Master's in Environmental Management and Quantitative Analysis from Duke University. She is trained in bird identification and bird-banding techniques through the Institute for Bird Populations, Point Reyes Station, California ( www.birdpop.org ). She has worked as an avian field biologist from Maine to Florida, with an emphasis on threatened and endangered shorebirds. From 1993 to 1999, she worked with the United States Department of Defense as a Natural Resources Projects Manager and had opportunities to oversee bird conservation and research efforts on military facilities throughout the United States, Panama, and Guam. Additionally, she has birded on her own throughout the United States and in Europe, New Zealand, Canada, and the Caribbean. Currently, she lives in Arlington, Virginia and works at the Army National Guard Readiness Center.