[SEMCO] Cape Cod Bird Club Meeting May 10

[Cynthia Franklin]

The final Cape Cod Bird Club May meeting for the season will be Monday,
May 10 at 7:30 pm at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
<http://www.ccmnh.org/> ,  869 Rte. 6A, in Brewster.  Meetings are free
and open to the public.  Meetings will begin again in September.

Speaker: Scott Hecker - "The Piping Plover as an Umbrella Species for
the Barrier Beach Ecosystem" 

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.

Scott Hecker is the Executive Director of the Goldenrod Foundation
(www.goldenrod.org <http://www.www.goldenrod.org> ), 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.

See the website www.massbird.org/ccbc for information on meetings and on
guided bird walks scheduled for May, including weekend bird walks at
Beech Forest in Provincetown.

Cynthia Franklin

For the Cape Cod Bird Club

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