Date: 4/22/26 6:37 pm From: via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] WOS Monthly Meeting, May 4, 2026 (in-person and online)
The Washington Ornithological Society (WOS) is pleased to announce our next Monthly Meeting: on Monday, May 4, 2026, Dennis Paulson will present, "Madagascar, A Place Like Nowhere Else." Madagascar is the world’s fourth-largest island, situated off East Africa in the Indian Ocean. Isolated since it drifted away from India 88 million years ago, a very large percentage of its plants and animals are endemic, occurring nowhere else—95% of reptiles, 92% of mammals, 89% of plants, and 41% of birds. Its environments range from lush montane rain forests to arid coastal scrub, each with its own flora and fauna.
Dennis Paulson, founding member of WOS, has impacted everything to do with birds in Washington State for decades. Dennis has served as a curator at both the UW Burke Museum and the University of Puget Sound Slater Museum of Natural History. He is in addition recognized as a world authority on dragonflies. His many publications include A Guide to Bird Finding in Washington, Shorebirds of the Pacific Northwest and over 90 scientific papers. Dennis has traveled to all continents to study and photograph nature, and has taught and mentored university, Master Birder students and adult learners for over 50 years. He continues to enjoy the thrill of seeing a new species and interacting with fellow naturalists.
This meeting will take place both in-person and online via Zoom.
The IN-PERSON meeting will take place at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture (free parking), 3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA 98195. Doors open at 6:45PM; Program starts at 7:30PM
VIA ZOOM - Please go to the WOS Monthly Meetings page: https://wos.org/monthly-meetings/ for instructions on participation and to get the Zoom link. When joining the meeting, we ask that you mute your device and make certain that your camera is turned off.
This meeting is open to all as WOS invites everyone in the wider birding community to attend. Thanks to the generosity of our presenters, recordings of past programs are available at the following link to the WOS YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@washingtonornithologicalso7839/videos
If you are not yet a member of WOS, we hope you will consider becoming one at https://wos.org
