LoonWatch is still accepting proposals for its 22nd annual award for research conducted in North America on any loon (Gavia) species. To apply for cash awards up to $3,000, a proposed research project and curriculum vitae must be received by December 5th, 2008. Projects should be for the 2009 calendar year. The winner(s) will be notified by January 30th, 2009.
The award is named for biologist Sigurd T. Olson, whose 1952 paper with co-author William H. Marshall, “The Common Loon in Minnesota,” continues to be cited as one of the premier baseline reports on the species.
Research on behavior, breeding ecology, migration, winter ecology, toxicology and evolution will be considered. Proposals addressing human impacts to loons will be given special consideration.
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The Canoe was drifting off the islands, and the time had come for the calling, that moment of magic in the north when all is quiet and the water still iridescent with the fading glow of sunset. Even the shores seemed hushed and waiting for the first lone call, and when it came, a single long-drawn mournful note, the quiet was deeper than before.
-Sigurd Olson The Singing Wilderness
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