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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:windowtext'>The final Cape
Cod Bird Club May meeting for the season will be Monday, May 10 at 7:30 pm at
the <b><a href="http://www.ccmnh.org/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Cape Cod Museum of Natural History</span></a>, </b>
869 Rte. 6A, in Brewster. Meetings are <b>free</b> and open to the
public. Meetings will begin again in September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='color:windowtext'>Speaker: Scott
Hecker - “The Piping Plover as an Umbrella Species for the Barrier Beach
Ecosystem”</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>This presentation will describe how piping
plover conservation has played a major role in the overall conservation of the
barrier beach ecosystem. Over the last twenty years, the state population for
piping plovers dramatically increased from 126 pairs to over 550 pairs. As a
federally protected species, the increase and spread of piping plovers to more
sites for breeding, staging, and wintering has offered further opportunities
for conservationists to increase protection for these areas. This presentation
will describe what, how, and where the conservation of piping plovers has also
protected significant amount of barrier beach habitat, and other species of
birds, animals and plants from Massachusetts to its winter quarters in the
southeastern U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>Scott Hecker is the Executive Director of the
Goldenrod Foundation (<a href="http://www.www.goldenrod.org"><span
style='color:windowtext'>www.goldenrod.org</span></a>), whose mission is to
conserve and protect coastal habitat and coastal shorebirds in Southeastern
Massachusetts. Scott completed an M.S. Degree in Resource Management at Antioch
University in April 1987. Once month later, he began his post-graduate
employment on Plymouth Beach, as a tern warden for Mass Audubon. Between 1987
and 2002, Scott served as Director of the Coastal Waterbird Program for Mass
Audubon, where he developed research, advocacy, and education efforts to
protect threatened terns and plovers. From 2003 to 2008, Scott directed the
Coastal Bird Conservation Program for the National Audubon Society, where he
broadened the reach of Audubon's effective model to protect a larger number of
threatened coastal bird species in additional states on the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts. Since 2008, Scott has served as the Executive Director of the Goldenrod
Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>See the website <a
href="http://www.massbird.org/ccbc">www.massbird.org/ccbc</a> for information
on meetings and on guided bird walks scheduled for May, including weekend bird
walks at Beech Forest in Provincetown.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cynthia
Franklin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For
the Cape Cod Bird Club</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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