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SUMMARY:November:  Andrea Patterson - "40 Years of Banding At Braddock Bay: What Have We Learned?"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 13\, 2025\n40 Years of Banding At Braddock Bay: What Have We Learned? – Andrea Patterson\n\nBraddock Bay Bird Observatory has been banding birds on the south shore of Lake Ontario since 1986\, and we’ve collected data on more than 300\,000 birds. Thanks to a platoon of collaborating researchers including local professors and their undergraduate and graduate students\, our data has been used to answer a variety of questions concerning the behavior\, ecology\, and biology of birds. Join us for a romp through 40 years of research\, as we tackle questions like:\n\n\nHave we noticed any changes in bird populations or migrations over time?\nAre migrating flocks just associations of birds that happen to be coordinated by time\, place\, and species\, or is there something more meaningful at work?\nWhy do birds carry extra fat in the spring?\nWhy do some insectivores switch their diet to fruit in the fall?\nIs it possible to distinguish individual Magnolia Warblers just by their night flight calls???\nWhat is that thing on the chin of that Great Crested Flycatcher?\n\n\nWe promise that you don’t need a knowledge of statistics or the scientific method to understand and enjoy this fun overview of our work.\n\n\nBiography: \nAndrea Patterson began volunteering at Braddock Bay Bird Observatory in 2009\, and banded her first bird in the spring of 2010 when she took a bander training class from Elizabeth Brooks.  Since then\, she has handled more than 20\,000 birds as part of the Observatory’s long-term migration study and has been lucky enough to spend time banding Saltmarsh and Nelson’s Sparrows in New Hampshire\, rails (including one Black Rail!) in Louisiana\, and Tawny-crowned Greenlets in Belize.  Now the executive director of the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory\, Andrea coordinates the migration\, summer\, and owl monitoring programs; facilitates the use of the Observatory as a field site for a half-dozen research affiliates; and teaches four banding classes annually.\n\n\n\n\nLook for the Zoom link in your email a few days prior to the meeting. The Zoom Room will open at 6:45 PM.  Don’t wait until the last minute to sign on\, you might be left out!
URL:https://rochesterbirding.org/event/november-andrea-patterson-40-years-of-banding-at-braddock-bay-what-have-we-learned/
LOCATION:Asbury First Methodist Church\, 1050 East Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14607\, United States
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