Ed Pandolfino©Ed Harper
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The public is invited to join Yolo Audubon and its members for a presentation on Using Bird Song to Learn about Migration by Ed Pandolfino at the monthly general meeting on April 17, 2024. This free meeting is held at the Davis Senior Center at 646 A Street in Davis. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. and runs until 8:50 p.m. Folks participating at the Senior Center are welcome to arrive at 7:00 p.m. for a pre-meeting socialization with other in-person attendees. Zoom attendees will be admitted a little before 7:30 p.m.
A host of techniques from banding to the more recent tracking devices (geolocators, satellite tags, etc.) have revealed much about bird migration. However, all these approaches require capturing a bird (usually twice), can be quite expensive, and are limited to tracking small numbers of individual birds. What if you could learn about migration without ever capturing a bird and gather data across a huge expanse of geography about many different individuals? Ed will talk about a “low tech” way of doing exactly that by using bird song dialects.
SPEAKER BIO
Ed Pandolfino earned a Ph.D. from Washington State University and, since retiring from a career in the Medical Device industry in 2000, has devoted himself to bird research and conservation. He has served as president of Western Field Ornithologists, vice-president of San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, and on the boards of the Institute for Bird Populations and Sierra Foothills Audubon Society. He has co-authored two books, Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution from U.C. Press and Breeding Birds of Sacramento County from the Central Valley Bird Club, and has published more than four dozen research papers, many of which focus on bird vocalizations.
DETAILS ON JOINING THIS ZOOM MEETING
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This meeting will be a hybrid session with Ed making his presentation at Davis Senior Center. Participants can join the meeting on-site at Davis Senior Center or from the comfort of their home via Zoom.
Attend the Meeting in Person
Registration is not necessary to attend the meeting at the Senior Center.
Davis Senior Center
646 A Street
Davis CA
Attend the Meeting online via Zoom.
The presentation will be streamed in real time on ZOOM from the Senior Center. To attend the meeting via Zoom you will need to register for the meeting.
You must register (no cost) in advance for this meeting. An account with Zoom is NOT necessary to join a meeting. Zoom limits the number of participants to 100. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Registrants will receive email updates about this online event, as well as periodic email updates about Yolo Audubon’s conservation work and how you can help birds. (You can unsubscribe at any time.)
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