[SEMCO] [Mass Audubon] Meet Live Kestrels & a Merlin This Wednesday

[Amy Fleischer]

Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary invites you to: 

 

Wednesday, August 1, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Kestrels and Cranberries, featuring live birds

Bird bander and conservationist Joey Mason

 

Anyone who has ever seen an American Kestrel hover above a meadow just
before diving on its prey can appreciate the beauty of this colorful
bird of prey. Unfortunately, our smallest falcon is in big trouble.
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about kestrels, and their
reliance on cranberry bogs as a nesting habitat in this wonderful
photographic presentation by Joanne "Joey" Mason, who will share her
extensive research and conservation experiences with American kestrels.

A live kestrel and merlin will be featured for close and photographic
looks.

Mason's talk with include insight and speculation into the kestrels'
decline, which was recently documented by Mass Audubon's landmark State
of the Birds report, as well as intriguing stories about what the
kestrels are eating and what else is nesting in their boxes. (Kestrels
nest in a variety of open habitats, especially rare grassland habitats.)


Joey Mason initiated the nest box project for American kestrels in
southeastern Massachusetts 23 years ago. She has monitored American
Kestrel nest boxes and banded young and adult Kestrels with U.S. Fish
and Wildlife bands ever since. In 2000, she spearheaded the Raptor
Retrofit Project to prevent osprey electrocutions on privately owned
utility poles, and has been responsible for placement of numerous osprey
nesting platforms. Joey has recently been working on a better management
practices for landfills, to prevent raptors from getting injured and
killed from methane burners.

Learn more:
http://www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Wellfleet/news.
php?id=2000&event=no

Register online:
https://www.massaudubon.org/catalog/listing.php?program_code=1125-WF12SU
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Tickets may be purchased by calling 508.349.2615 or online at
www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay

Our July/ August program brochure can be found here:
http://www.massaudubon.org/PDF/newsletters/Wellfleet_Bay_218.pdf

 

We hope that you will share this information with your colleagues and
friends, and to see you at the sanctuary soon. Please let us know if you
have any questions.

 

Best wishes,

Amy

 

Amy Fleischer, Education Director/ Public Programs Coordinator 

Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

PO Box 236, South Wellfleet, MA 02663

afleischer at massaudubon.org

508-349-2615, ext 114 

Office Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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

 

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