Western CT Bird Club Monthly Meeting: Whip-poor-wills in CT and Across Their Range

Min Huang, wildlife biologist for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, also heads the Migratory Bird Program for the State.  Min received a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Conservation and a Bachelor of Art in English from the University of Connecticut and received his Master of Science in Wildlife Management from Frostburg State University.  He received his Ph. D from the University of Connecticut, researching sub-population structure and survival of resident Canada Geese.  He has worked as a wildlife biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission where he managed a wildlife management area, working primarily with deer and various endangered species such as the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Florida Scrub Jay, and Whooping Crane.  He also spent 5 years working for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife as a District Biologist, where he primarily worked with ungulates and endangered species such as the Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet.  Current projects he is involved with include migration and survival of North Atlantic Population Canada Geese, nesting success of Mallards in an exurban landscape, American Kestrel survival, dispersal and migratory stopover habitat use, American Bittern habitat use and migratory patterns, Eastern Whip-poor-will status and use of managed forestry cuts, and multi-stock harvest management of waterfowl.

 

The talk will cover the status of Whip-poor-will here in CT and across their range; monitoring here in CT and across the Atlantic Flyway, plus some research that the DEEP is starting to do.

 

Free and open to the public

 

For information:  contact Angela Dimmitt, angeladimmitt@aol.com