[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 156 (Monday, November 8, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


 CONGRATULATING JOSEPH MOFFETT ON HIS BEING SELECTED TO COMPETE IN THE 
                      NATIONAL BIRDING COMPETITION

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                          HON. RICHARD E. NEAL

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, November 8, 1999

  Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate 
Joseph Moffett for being selected to the ABA/Leica Tropicbirds Team of 
1999. Joseph, along with three other youths, has been chosen to compete 
in The Florida Space Coast Flyway Festival birdathon. This is a 
national birding competition which will be held on November 13, 1999.
  Joseph, who is fifteen years old, lives in Mendon, Massachusetts and 
is a member of the ABA and the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Joe is 
also a member of many other birding clubs including; the Brookline Bird 
Club, the Forbush Bird Club, and the Stony Brook Bird Club. Joe works 
at the Stony Brook Audubon Sanctuary as a volunteer naturalist and a 
councilor in training. Joe also takes part in the Christmas Bird Count 
and Massachusetts Audubon Birdathon fund-raiser. Joe keeps lists of the 
birds he sees on various birding outings and submits them to the Bird 
Observer, a birding journal.
  In addition to Joe's birding skills, he is also a proponent of 
environmental protection. Joe has started a rainforest club in his 
school and has raised money to save acreage of a rainforest. Most of 
the birding events that Joe participates in are also fund-raisers, 
which raise money for the protection of new bird species that are found 
during the events and for the protection of birds in general.
  Mr. Speaker, it is my great pleasure to congratulate Joseph Moffett 
on his accomplishments and commend him for being a model citizen and a 
great influence to his community.

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