[BSW] Dr. Chan Robbins

[Kathy Bilton]

Sad news about Chan Robbins who died yesterday, March 20.

Here's a nice article about him from 2014. 
http://www.audubon.org/magazine/november-december-2014/three-generations-citizen-science

And from last summer: Q&A: Chan Robbins Talks About Wisdom, the World’s 
Oldest Banded Bird - 
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/qa-chan-robbins-talks-about-wisdom-the-worlds-oldest-banded-bird/

Via Jil:

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From: Dan Smith <smithdc6019 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:30 PM
Subject: Fwd: FW: Dr. Chan Robbins

Many of you will already know this news. Dr. Chan Robbins is one for us to
celebrate and to be inspired by to vigorously carry on habitat protection and
restoration here in Prince George's and everywhere! 
Doug Talamy's Earth Day presentation in Bowie on Friday evening, April 21 will show
how we can beautify our communities as we do this. (Thanks for organizing this,
Gary).

And joining the March for Science in DC on Sat. April 22 (after some morning tree
planting, if you can) is another way to carry the flag for the great work of Chan
Robbins and scientists who inform our work and so much more.
 
Dan
 

From: Matthew Perry [mailto:mperry1209 at verizon.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 8:47 AM
Subject: Dr. Chan Robbins

Dear Patuxent Alumni

Our good friend Dr. Chan Robbins died yesterday (March 20, 2017) at 4 PM.

Chan worked at Patuxent from the mid-1940s until November 2016.

He is internationally famous for his bird book and his ornithological studies.

Chan was 98 years old.  He will be greatly missed.

Matt Perry