MONITORING AND MANAGING RAPTOR POPULATIONS

MONITORING AND MANAGING RAPTOR POPULATIONS:

Forging a Collaboration of Professional & Volunteer Conservationists
Friday, May 7th & Saturday, May 8th 2010

Audubon Greenwich will celebrate International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD) with a special scientific conference with guest speakers from conservation groups across the Americas. Please join us for this exciting collaborative conference created to identify raptor management priorities and expand opportunities to engage Citizen Scientists in these strategies.

The conference has a duel track, one is to focus on direct raptor conservation efforts and the other is to help improve the collection of data at hawk count sites. The direct conservation track will focus on how people can get involved in projects, both within the state, such as the Kestrel nest box program as well as how to support conservation efforts further afield such as at the key River of Raptors site in Veracruz. The protocols and new methods track was inspired by the suggestions in the State of North American Birds of Prey chapter on the need to harmonize hawkwatch data collection. The two tracks making it a must attend event for hawkwatchers and conservationists alike.

Greenwich Audubon is collaborating with Hawk Mountain, Birdlife International, Connecticut Ornithological Association, HMANA, Connecticut Audubon Society, Northeast Hawkwatch, Pro Natura as well as Audubon New York and Vermont amongst others on this project.

Please visit http://greenwich.audubon.org/News.html for further information on the conference, the schedule of events and to access the online booking form