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SUMMARY:May:  Bill Evans - "The Search for Coastal Lake Ontario Megaflights: a tale of wind turbines and concentration dynamics of nocturnal bird migration "
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 2026\n – Bill Evans\n\n\nBill Evans began work in 1985 studying the calls birds give in nocturnal migration. By 2000\, his expertise was in demand from wind energy developers who were required to do wildlife studies to get their projects approved. His night flight call studies had given him unique insight into what species were present in nocturnal migration and what species might be subject to collisions with behemoth rotors slicing through the night. By 2015\, he was also getting a lot of work from towns and citizens groups concerned about the impacts of wind energy in their neighborhoods. In that year a law firm representing the Town of Somerset\, NY hired Bill to review the potential avian impacts of the Lighthouse Wind Project\, which was on track to be the first US wind project built in the coastal zone of a large body of water. Bill agreed with others involved that large coastal concentrations of migrants would potentially be impacted by the project. He was soon carrying out an avian night flight call study to collect data\, which ultimately confirmed the potential elevated avian impact of this project. The study was funded by the citizens group spearheading the opposition to the wind project\, Save Ontario Shores\, Inc. In the ensuing years\, SOS would play a key role in stopping the construction of the Lighthouse Wind Project. And in 2024\, with the wind project having folded\, SOS asked Bill if his nonprofit had any ideas for further study that might tie into the work he had previously completed. Bill’s presentation to the RBA will highlight the exciting development that this funding has catalyzed. \nBill Evans is the founder and director of the nonprofit Old Bird Inc. The organization has been advancing the utility of studying avian nocturnal flight calls since 1998. \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/may-bill-evans-the-search-for-coastal-lake-ontario-megaflights-a-tale-of-wind-turbines-and-concentration-dynamics-of-nocturnal-bird-migration/
LOCATION:Asbury First Methodist Church\, 1050 East Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14607\, United States
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SUMMARY:September:  Kristin Brunk\, PhD - "Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Studying Nature Through Sound"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 10\, 2026\nSpeaker:  Kristin Brunk\, PhD – “Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Studying Nature Through Sound” \n\n\n\nBird song has been a source of inspiration and joy to people for centuries\, but it can also provide clues about bird community health and insights into the success (or failure) of habitat management for birds. Passive acoustic monitoring – using sound to study nature – is a rapidly-advancing technique that’s increasingly being used to monitor bird populations in many contexts. In California’s Sierra Nevada\, researchers are using passive acoustic monitoring at unprecedented scales to improve habitat management for birds in the context of rapidly changing climate and fire regimes.\n\nKristin Brunk\, PhD\, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo\, in Oslo\, Norway\, and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca\, NY. Kristin’s research lies at the intersection of conservation\, quantitative ecology\, and behavioral ecology\, and the questions that most interest her are those with implications both for wildlife conservation and for ecological theory. Kristin is a field ecologist at heart\, and in addition to working in the Sierra Nevada\, Kristin has conducted fieldwork in a wide variety of landscapes including the old growth redwood forest in Big Basin Redwoods State Park\, the ground-nesting seabird paradise of Johnston Atoll (a tiny\, remote Pacific wildlife refuge)\, the swamps and marshes of the ACE basin in South Carolina\, the volcanic shores of Isla Española in the Galapagos\, and the mountain birch forests of Norway.\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/september-kristin-brunk-phd-passive-acoustic-monitoring-studying-nature-through-sound/
LOCATION:Asbury First Methodist Church\, 1050 East Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14607\, United States
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SUMMARY:October:  Dr. Mike Ward
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 8\, 2026\n – Mike Ward\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography: \n\n\nDr. Mike Ward is originally from Jacksonville\, IL and received his PhD from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign in 2004.  He is currently the Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick Chair in Sustainability in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences\, in the College of Agricultural\, Consumer\, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois and an Ornithologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Dr. Ward conducts research on avian ecology and conservation throughout the Midwest as well as in Texas\, Florida\, Mexico\, Costa Rica\, Colombia\, and Cuba. He is a global leader in the use of automated telemetry to investigate the movements (e.g.\, migration) and behavior of birds. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and won multiple awards for his research. He is also on many technical committees most of which are charged with informing management and policy to better conserve the environment. Dr. Ward studies the ecology and behavior of birds in natural and modified ecosystems in order to inform conservation and management.\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/october-dr-mike-ward/
LOCATION:Asbury First Methodist Church\, 1050 East Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14607\, United States
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SUMMARY:November:  Stan Tekiela - "Bird Migration: The Incredible Journeys Of North American Birds"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 12\, 2026\n – Stan Tekiela\n\n\nMigration is still a mystery in many ways. In this presentation Stan shows magnificent photographs of bird migration along with fascinating facts that unlock many of the secrets of bird migration. This presentation is filled with information and fun stories of migrating birds. How do they find their way? How do they know when they arrived? How do they find their way back? Hundreds of award winning images of migrating birds. These questions and many more are answered in this lively presentation.\n\n\n\nBiography: \n\n\nNaturalist\, wildlife photographer and author/writer Stan Tekiela is the originator of the popular state-specific field guides such as Birds of New York Field Guide and Trees of New York. Over the past four decades Stan has authored more than 300 field guides\, nature appreciation books and wildlife audio CDs for nearly every state in the nation\, presenting many species of birds\, mammals\, reptiles and amphibians\, trees\, wildflowers and cacti. Holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural History from the University of Minnesota and as an active professional naturalist for more than 40 years\, Stan studies and photographs wildlife throughout the United States and has received various national and regional awards for his books and photographs.Also a well-known columnist and radio personality\, his syndicated column appears in over 20 newspapers and his wildlife programs are broadcast on a number of Midwest radio stations. He is a member of the North American Nature Photography Association and Canon Professional Services along with many other professional organizations.\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-stan-tekiela-bird-migration-the-incredible-journeys-of-north-american-birds/
LOCATION:Asbury First Methodist Church\, 1050 East Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14607\, United States
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SUMMARY:December:  Roger J. Masse\, Ph.D. - "Young Forest Bird Conservation"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 10\, 2026\n – Roger J. Masse\, Ph.D.\n\n\nDuring this seminar\, Roger will be discussing issues related to young forest bird conservation in the Northeast\, USA.  Young forest bird conservation has been the focus of many recent initiatives across New York and the broader Northeast.  Populations of these species\, such as Eastern towhee\, blue-winged warbler\, and American woodcock require active habitat management to thrive on contemporary landscapes.  During his presentation\, Roger will outline historical forest change in the Northeast\, discuss why young forests are important\, overview examples of young forest initiatives\, and summarize the types of species that benefit from young forest management.\n\n\n\nBiography: \n\n\nDr. Roger J. Masse is a broadly-trained wildlife biologist with particular interests in undergraduate education\, wildlife habitat use and management\, and birds.  He earned a BS in Wildlife Biology from University of Vermont\, a MS in Natural Resources from Delaware State University\, and a PhD in Environmental Science from University of Rhode Island.  A common theme throughout his formal training was an interest in studying birds.  In Vermont\, he worked with grassland songbirds during an undergraduate research experience; in Delaware\, he studied wood thrush populations and other forest-breeding birds; in Rhode Island\, he studied habitat use and behavior of American woodcock and other young forest birds.  Roger currently works as an associate professor of wildlife management at SUNY Cobleskill where he provides his students with hands-on experience related to wildlife studies including songbird and American woodcock capture\, measurement\, and banding among other topics.\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/december-roger-j-masse-ph-d-young-forest-bird-conservation/
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