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Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip - Sunday September 18th

Posted: Mar 21 11:46 am
by EdmontonBirder
Hello

The Edmonton Nature Club is hosting a pelagic trip from Ucluelet, British Columbia on Sunday September 18th. The tickets will be on sale April 1st for $200. I'll post the link for tickets on April 1st. If you'd like more information before then please send me a private email and I can send you the pelagic trip information package.

Thank you
James Fox
fox.james.ed@gmail.com
Executive Director - Edmonton Nature Club

Re: Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip - Sunday September 18t

Posted: Mar 21 1:31 pm
by birdergirl
WildResearch is not offering their annual Pelagic this fall so people should take advantage of this one!

Cheers,
Mel

Re: Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip - Sunday September 18t

Posted: Mar 22 12:24 am
by WRPelagic
Mel, if you go to the Edmonton Nature Club's website:

http://edmontonnatureclub.org/pelagic-trip-payment.html

You'll see that ENC is using the same ship, same dock, same cost, and the same weekend as the WildResearch pelagic trip. I think this is why WildResearch isn't doing a pelagic trip in 2016.

The pelagic trip was Wildresearch's major fund raiseing event, there will now be a big funding short fall for the Nightjar monitoring project and the Bird Observatory at Iona. Birders were directly funding conservation projects in BC by going on the pelagic trips. I'm not sure what the ENC is planing to do with any of the profits from their pelagic trip.

Paul Levesque
Vancouver

Re: Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip - Sunday September 18t

Posted: Mar 22 1:02 am
by birdergirl
Hi Paul,

Sorry to hear this. I read in the WildResearch newsletter (as posted below) that there would not be a trip this year and Christine even suggested people book this trip so I thought it was endorsed by WildResearch and there was other reasons it wasn't going, thanks for clarifying.

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Cheers,
Mel

Re: Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip - Sunday September 18t

Posted: Mar 22 9:28 am
by WRPelagic
Mel,

I think the WildResearch board has been put in a very difficult situation. They had to let the WR membership know that WR was not organizing a pelagic trip, and they knew that people would be disappointed that there wasn't going to be a trip.

Of course, the ENC is free to do whatever they like. However, the birding community will likely lose out in the long term, because in the future few organizations will be willing to take on the financial risk of organizing a big pelagic trip.

In the past, BC pelagic trips were on smaller boats and there were fewer seats, so the trips were easier to fill and this meant there was less risk for the organizers. Ironically, this also meant that the trips didn't get advertised outside of BC. When I organized the first WR pelagic trip in 2011, I advertised the trip as widely as possible and many land locked birders got to add a lot of pelagic birds to the Canada list.

Anyways, we’ll see what happens.

Paul Levesque
Vancouver

Re: Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip - Sunday September 18t

Posted: Mar 23 6:13 pm
by BirdingBC
Discussion about WR trips (or lack thereof), do not belong in this thread. Good for ENC for setting up a trip. Take advantage of it people.

Thanks,

Re: Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip - Sunday September 18t

Posted: Mar 31 1:00 pm
by EdmontonBirder
Here is the link for tickets sales. Trip information is also available here.

http://edmontonnatureclub.org/pelagic-trip-payment.html

Thanks
James Fox

Re: Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip - Sunday September 18t

Posted: Apr 25 4:22 pm
by EdmontonBirder
For those considering participating in the Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip, we have 16 tickets left.
Information and tickets at
http://edmontonnatureclub.org/pelagic-trip-payment.html

Thanks
James Fox
Edmonton

Re: Edmonton Nature Club Pelagic Trip - Sunday September 18t

Posted: Sep 12 7:32 am
by birdergirl
There are still tickets available for the Ucluelet pelagic this Sunday Sept 18th.

You can no longer purchase tickets from the website to purchase tickets please email James Fox directly at fox.james.ed@gmail.com

Cheers,
Mel