[SEMCO] Free Lecture on Monitoring Birds and Impacts of Human Structures like Turbines and Towers

[Melissa Lowe]

HOW DO TURBINES, TOWERS, AND TALL BUILDINGS IMPACT BIRDS?
Free lecture focuses on research monitoring birds and impacts of human structures.

Thursday, September 27, 7 p.m.
at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

Bill Evans has spent 20 years studying the nocturnal flight calls of migrating birds in North America. He initiated the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's avian night flight call research in 1994 and in 1998 founded the nonprofit Old Bird. His presentation will focus on his current work using acoustics for long-term monitoring of various songbird species and for mitigating bird mortality at tall man-made structures. Bill's work has been described in The New York Times, New Scientist, NPR, BBC, PBS, Science and many popular conservation and birding magazines. His organization also provides instructions and tools for anyone interested in establishing their own night flight call monitoring station.

This talk will be held at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in South Wellfleet. It is free and open to the public. Registration is requested, but not required. For more information or to register contact the sanctuary at 508-349-2615.


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Melissa Lowe, Education Coordinator
Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
PO Box 236, South Wellfleet, MA 02663
mlowe at massaudubon.org
508-349-2615, ext 107

Protecting the Nature of Massachusetts
www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay