[SEMCO] Cape Cod Bird Club

[Paul And Marilyn Schlansky]

A reminder about this Monday's Cape Cod Bird Club meeting at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History at 7 PM.  Sorry for the format.  It looks like a free verse poem. 

Joan Walsh – Mass Audubon’s State of the Birds: Climate Change Edition
How will climate change affect the breeding birds of Massachusetts? Who will be the winners? The losers? Joan will take us on a surprisingly fun romp through Mass Audubon’s landmark State of the Birds report, which is a report card on the status of all of the Commonwealth’s breeding birds. This latest reworking of the data focuses on the impacts climate change is expected to have on our bird populations, from sea level rise, to changing forest communities, to changing migration timing and insect populations. The results may surprise you.

Joan Walsh has been watching, and learning from, birds for 35 years and was the Director of Bird Monitoring at Mass Audubon from 2006-2016. During her career she has focused on research that has direct implications for bird conservation. This interest led to enlisting hundreds of citizen scientists for the creation of the highly regarded Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas 2 and two State of the Birds of Massachusetts reports.

She was a Farallon Island biologist where she studied Elephant Seals, Tufted Puffins, Brandt’s Cormorants, Western Gulls, and even did a little Great White Shark work. She went to graduate school in Georgia, where she studied Wood Storks, and was the former Director of Research at Cape May Bird Observatory in NJ. Her formative years as an ornithologist were spent on Great Gull Island, NY, home to the largest colonies of Common and Roseate Terns in the North Atlantic.

Joan has traveled extensively in the US (only missing OK, HI and KY) and Canada, Belize, Mexico, Ireland, Great Britain, France, Spain and Italy. While being particularly keen about seabird and wading bird ecology and behavior, Joan has never met a bird she didn’t love. She travels with an eye for culture as well as nature, and can think of no better way to spend a day than to be in a new place, with new friends, simply watching birds.


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