Meeting Alert!

We are not canceling due to the weather, but we are making the program available on Zoom.

Here is the link to Zoom:

Topic: Wichita Audubon Society meeting
Time: Feb 18, 2025 7 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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https://hutchcc.zoom.us/j/81462851492?pwd=oTMNdanV48tYONm2atdr9WfnkueSu8.1

Meeting ID: 814 6285 1492
Passcode: 965609

Note the passcode, you will need it to join the Zoom meeting.

Our presenters, being young and fearless, are still planning on coming and some of us are fearless enough to be there, too. So feel free to join us.


Presentation Trifecta

Our original speaker for this month is unable to attend, so in his place we have three graduate students who will present brief programs about their research.

Riley Lawson will speak on a study on the Oklahoma State campus testing the effectiveness of Feather Friendly window markers (white dots) in preventing bird collisions. They have been able to show a trend across multiple years clearly demonstrating that the markers have achieved a substantial reduction in collision rates! Riley is originally from the Tulsa area and got his bachelor’s of science in Natural Resource Ecology and Management at OSU in 2020, and returned in 2023 to get a master’s. He also interned at the KDWP education museum in Pratt, KS in 2021. 
 

Holly Todaro will be sharing preliminary results from her work on the effects of climate change on avian reproduction. Holly is a PhD student at OSU whose research focuses on how birds respond to anthropogenic threats such as climate change, urbanization, and land-cover change, with a broader interest in global change ecology and conservation. Holly received a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management from Central Michigan University and a Master of Science in Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture from Mississippi State University. Holly is originally from Port Huron, Michigan

Dylan Cooper will be talking about the community science project Larder Locker, housed within iNaturalist, which provides citizen scientists the opportunity to help researchers study shrike diet and land use through documenting prey items cached by shrikes at their larders. Dylan is a current PhD student at Oklahoma State University where he is leading a study funded by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation with the goals of developing a monitoring protocol for Loggerhead Shrikes. Dylan grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He received a BS in Biological Sciences from Arizona State University and a MS in Biology from University of Nebraska–Kearney.