Bancroft Bird Watcher's Group hosts Neil Gifford, Conservation Director at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve during this talk about the avian research that is currently going on at the Preserve (read more below).
Registration is suggested for this program!
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Inland pine barrens are a rare yet important habitat for shrubland birds in the northeastern U.S. However, many of these ecosystems are limited to fragmented remnants in heavily urbanized landscapes. The 3,407-acre Albany Pine Bush Preserve protects the remnants of an inland pine barrens following decades of loss, fragmentation, and degradation due to human development, species invasions, and fire suppression. To understand the effects of their protection efforts, researchers have been monitoring the response of bird populations at the Pine Bush, conducting point counts, capturing birds to band and release, and documenting the territory fidelity of two target shrubland birds: the Prairie Warbler and the Eastern Whip-poor-will. Neil Gifford will provide a synopsis of the individual studies and conservation work being conducted there and share that their efforts have had a positive impact on the local shrubland bird community.
BIO: Neil Gifford is the Conservation Director for the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission, and a community representative on the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange, with 28+ years of fire ecology, prescribed fire and field ornithology experience. He earned associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees in Ecology and Environmental Science from Paul Smith’s College, and Plattsburgh State University. Neil is also a certified wildland fire fighter, a USGS Master Bird Bander and the author of both popular and peer-reviewed scientific articles. Neil lives on a small farm in White Creek, NY where he tends a flock of Jacob Sheep and many species of cavity nesting birds.
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