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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em class="bbc"
style="font-style: italic !important;"><strong class="bbc"
style="font-weight: bold !important;">What is the
Ornithological Council and why should you support it, even
if you are not an ornithologist?</strong></em></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Ornithological Council
is a great resource for ornithologists. We help researchers
navigate the permit maze, address animal welfare concerns,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size:
14px;">publish the peer-reviewed<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em class="bbc"
style="font-style: italic !important;">Guidelines to the Use
of Wild Birds in Research.<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span></em>Biologists in other disciplines benefit, too, as
we routinely and freely share this information. If our efforts
have</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">helped you, or are likely to
help you in the future, <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nmnh.si.edu_BIRDNET_index.html&d=CwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vh1E11_Ui6VepJMCF1p6xrgAWNNlqjBK0wyAL33NTKs&s=daJgmj_RXXIWHMTAJtPHF2IoT5869O8-LbXAJyo87vU&e=">please
consider making a contribution</a>. <br>
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style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:
14px;">What does the Ornithological Council do, and
why should you care?</span></span></strong></em></span></span></p>
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class="bbc" style="font-weight: bold !important;">The
Ornithological Council gives voice to scientific ornithology
wherever & whenever that voice should be heard in the making
of policy decisions that affect ornithological research or wild
bird conservation and management.</strong></p>
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class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important;">The OC works
with multinational, federal, and state governments and
nongovernmental organizations to assure that the policies that
affect the way you conduct your research have a biological basis
and do not impose biologically unwarranted restrictions on your
research.</em></p>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><em
class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important;"><strong
class="bbc" style="font-weight: bold !important;">Permits,
permits, permits:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>Migratory
Bird Treaty Act (bird banding, scientific collecting,
import/export), Endangered Species Act, CITES, Wild Bird
Conservation Act, special use permits for the National Wildlife
Refuge Systems, National Forest Service, research permits for
the National Park Service, authorizations for BLM land, state
permits, USDA APHIS import permits, CDC import permits. In
Canada, working with the Canadian Wildlife Service and the
provincial wildlife authorities on Migratory Bird Convention Act
permits (banding, scientific collecting, import/export), SARA
permits.</em></p>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><em
class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important;"><strong
class="bbc" style="font-weight: bold !important;">Animal
welfare:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>Working
with USDA APHIS Animal Care on policies that affect
ornithological research in the lab and in the field; working
with the National Institutes of Health Office of Laboratory
Animal Research and the National Science Foundation on
implementation of the Animal Welfare Act through their grant
policies; working with the National Academy of Science,
Institute of Laboratory Animal Welfare on the authoritative
guidance document; working with the AAALAC International (the
private accreditation organization).<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ornithologyexchange.org_articles_-5F_community_reminder-2Dmodel-2Dprotocol-2Dform-2Dfor-2Dwildlife-2Dresearch-2Dnow-2Davailable-2Dr230&d=CwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vh1E11_Ui6VepJMCF1p6xrgAWNNlqjBK0wyAL33NTKs&s=QhCYbpS3aVjHckvOtli02C5U6DnJ8odBC9TD54ee1Vc&e=" class="bbc_url" title="" style="color: rgb(15, 114, 218);
text-decoration: underline;"><strong class="bbc"
style="font-weight: bold !important;">For you and your
IACUC, we wrote a Model Wildlife Protocol.</strong></a></em></p>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><em
class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important;"><strong
class="bbc" style="font-weight: bold !important;">Research
integrity and peer review policies:<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>Representing
the views and concerns of the ornithological community to the
federal agencies that establish national policies regarding
research integrity and peer review</em></p>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><em
class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important;"><strong
class="bbc" style="font-weight: bold !important;">Providing
scientific information about birds:<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>The
Ornithological Council endeavors to e<span style="font-size:
14px;">nsure that the best ornithological science is
incorporated into legislative, regulatory,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 14px;">and management decisions that affect
birds. The scientific information you generate is made
available by the OC to government, conservation organizations,
industry, and private landowners; that information is provided
in an unbiased manner that helps decision-makers to understand
how their choices will affect wild birds.</span></em></p>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);"><em class="bbc"
style="font-style: italic !important;"><strong class="bbc"
style="font-weight: bold !important;">AND FOR YOU AS AN
INDIVIDUAL ORNITHOLOGIST, THE ORNITHOLOGICAL COUNCIL:</strong></em></span></p>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Publishes the peer-reviewed<span
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class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important;">Guidelines
to the Use of Wild Birds in Research</em></a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Publishes<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nmnh.si.edu_BIRDNET_permit_index.html&d=CwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vh1E11_Ui6VepJMCF1p6xrgAWNNlqjBK0wyAL33NTKs&s=m4XXpdiM-mvgR4v-EIRN0UPEZ1iYnANcb5qNbNOzweg&e=" class="bbc_url" title="External link" rel="nofollow external" style="color: rgb(15, 114, 218); text-decoration: underline;">guides
to permit requirements and procedures</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for all federal and
state permits</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Assists individual
ornithologists to get through the permit maze and trouble-shoots
difficult permit problems</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Provides expert input to
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (in Canada, Animal
Care and Use Committees)</li>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size:
12px;">More examples of what the Ornithological Council does for
you can be found in our annual report, attached to this article.</span>
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style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 51, 204);"><span
style="font-size: 18px;"><strong class="bbc"
style="font-weight: bold !important;">In short? The
Ornithological Council: Keeping the world safe for
ornithology since 1992!</strong></span></span></span></p>
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class="bbc" style="font-weight: bold !important;"><em
class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important;">The
Annual Ornithological Council Pledge Break (only once per
year!)</em></strong></span></span></p>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 12px;">Members of AOS, AFO, RRF, and WOS will
soon receive annual membership renewal notices. We hope that
when you renew, you will consider contributing to the
Ornithological Council. You will find a line on the printed
renewal notice, at the top of the column where you will list
your dues and contributions to the OSNA societies. If you renew
online, You can also contribute via the line for contributions
to the OC, on the webpage where you enter the society membership
dues and contributions.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 12px;">Members of the Waterbird Society have
already received membership renewal notices that do not include
a contribution line for the OC.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 12px;">Those who are not joining or renewing
memberships in the AOS, AFO, RRF, or WOS<br>
contribute directly through the PayPal button on <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nmnh.si.edu_BIRDNET_index.html&d=CwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vh1E11_Ui6VepJMCF1p6xrgAWNNlqjBK0wyAL33NTKs&s=daJgmj_RXXIWHMTAJtPHF2IoT5869O8-LbXAJyo87vU&e=">our homepage</a>.<br>
using your free PayPal account or a credit card or by check
(payable to the Ornithological Council and mailed to 6512 E.
Halbert Rd., Bethesda, MD 20817, USA).</span></p>
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style="font-size: 12px;">About 90% of OC's support comes from
annual contributions from its 12 member societies but we also
rely on contributions from individual ornithologists.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);"><strong
class="bbc" style="font-weight: bold !important;"><em
class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important;">How and
why the OC was hatched</em></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);
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style="font-size: 12px;">As early as the 1960s, ornithologists
realized that they had no effective means of providing
scientific information about birds to federal and state
agencies, the private for-profit sector, and the conservation
community. As awareness of the need for science-based bird
conservation and management grew, ornithologists needed a way to
assure that ornithological science was incorporated into
decisions that affect wild bird populations.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
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normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 12px;">At the same time, ornithologists were
struggling with the growing array of permit requirements. In
fact, there were occasions when ornithologists even faced
possible prosecution for violation of the Migratory Bird Treat
Act due to problematic implementation of the permit
requirements.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 12px;">Dick Banks (President, AOU 1994-1996;
President Wilson Ornithological Society 1991-1993) proposed the
formation of an ornithological council to speak for scientific
ornithology with the publication of a paper in The Auk.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);
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normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 12px;">And so...a committee was formed. And
the committee recommended that such a council be formed.</span></p>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span
style="font-family: arial;">The Council was founded in 1992
by seven ornithological societies in North America: American<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Ornithologists'
Union, Association for Field Ornithology, Cooper
Ornithological Society, Pacific<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Seabird
Group, Raptor Research Foundation, Waterbird Society and
Wilson Ornithological<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Society.
In recent years, the Society of Canadian Scientists, the
Society for the Conservation<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">and
Study of Caribbean Birds, the Neotropical Ornithological
Society, CIPAMEX, and the North American Crane Working Group
have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">become
members.</span></span></span></p>
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style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><em
class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important;"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);">The<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nmnh.si.edu_BIRDNET_orncounc_index.html&d=CwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vh1E11_Ui6VepJMCF1p6xrgAWNNlqjBK0wyAL33NTKs&s=gXZ5LvGicDeASs20l9ZSKQnr6IsCdbyaKEfKIVWKmYg&e=" class="bbc_url" title="External link" rel="nofollow
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text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0,
205);">Ornithological Council</span></a><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);"><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- a consortium
supported by 11 ornithological societies. Join or renew
your membership in your ornithological society if you
value the services these societies provide to you,
including the Ornithological Council!</span></em></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ellen Paul</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Executive Director</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nmnh.si.edu_BIRDNET&d=CwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=vh1E11_Ui6VepJMCF1p6xrgAWNNlqjBK0wyAL33NTKs&s=3uD0zUgh0ijbcLPON8BaQdjVb-ycNlRc3iU30C8IqVI&e=">Ornithological
Council</a> <br>
Providing Scientific Information about Birds</p>
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