Sandy Lockerman, a licensed bird bander, will discuss the intriguing world of hummingbirds. She will help you to take a look as some of their unique adaptations and migration mysteries. In addition to her ongoing ruby-throat project, she will update you on the documentation efforts being made of western hummingbirds in Pennsylvania.
This informative talk will be held at the Loyalsock State Forest Building, located at 6735 US-220, Dushore, PA 18614.
Your Guide: Sandy has been a bird bander for 27 years and spent 15 of those years travelling annually to the large Fort Morgan, Alabama bird banding station where banding hundreds of migrating songbirds and hummingbirds was an everyday occurrence across the Gulf of Mexico.
She began researching songbird migration in Pennsylvania at Wildwood Park in Harrisburg where she spent two decades as a full-time environmental educator. She became involved in 1996 with Project Owlnet and the Ned Smith Center where she bands and studies northern saw-whet owls during their autumn migration in northern Dauphin County. The past 34 years, she has been an education volunteer at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.
Hummingbirds entered her life at Fort Morgan and she began to assist her master bander with his research of the ruby-throated hummingbird and vagrant western hummingbirds in Pennsylvania. With his relocation to New Hampshire, she continues this migration study and documenting of the western hummingbirds seen in Pennsylvania.
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