{"id":933,"date":"2019-02-19T03:56:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T03:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/?p=933"},"modified":"2019-02-19T03:56:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T03:56:15","slug":"coa-annual-meeting-2019-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/coa-annual-meeting-2019-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"COA Annual Meeting 2019 Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"

COA Annual Meeting<\/strong>
\nMarch 23, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Connecticut Ornithological Association\u2019s 35 th Annual Meeting is being held on
\nMarch 23, 2019 at Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT.
\nDownload Annual Meeting Schedule 2019<\/a>
\nDownload Annual Meeting Registration Form 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Guest speakers include:<\/p>\n

Eric Hanson<\/strong>
\nThe Natural (and Unnatural) History of the Common Loon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photograph by Caleb Kenna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this program, Vermont Center for Ecostudies (VCE) biologist, Eric Hanson, will discuss the amazing\u00a0recovery of loons throughout the Northeast over the past 30 years, the threats that they face, and the\u00a0conservation actions that have brought them back, including capture and rescue stories. He will also\u00a0explore their fascinating behaviors and natural history, including new research on how loons find a\u00a0territory, what is being conveyed in the yodel call, and new findings on their migration pathways.<\/p>\n

Since 1998, Eric Hanson has been the biologist for the Vermont Loon Conservation Project (VLCP), a\u00a0program of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies. He has conducted research on the Common Loon since\u00a01992. His early work focused on banding loons to answer basic biological questions and assess\u00a0toxicology concerns. Eric then received his M.S. degree at the University of Minnesota setting up a\u00a0volunteer-based monitoring program for Minnesota\u2019s 12,000 loons. His loon work in Vermont has\u00a0focused on management around loon nest sites and education of lake users. He is an adjunct faculty\u00a0member at Sterling College and also teaches courses for the Road Scholar program.<\/p>\n

Jeff Spendelow<\/strong>
\nNew Insights into the Secret (?) Lives of Endangered Roseate Terns<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"What happens after young Roseate Terns fledge and leave their colony sites? Where\u00a0do they go? How long do they use North American staging sites until they migrate\u00a0to South America? Where do they spend time before they first start to breed when 3\u00a0or 4 years old? Dr. Jeff Spendelow doesn\u2019t have all the answers to those questions\u00a0yet, but he\u2019s working on them. Jeff\u2019s research inspired the \u201cYoung of Year\u201d\u00a0documentary filmed in 2016 which will start this presentation so COA members can\u00a0see young at a colony site, and the habitats they use and problems they face as\u00a0\u201cHatch Year\u201d birds after fledging. Jeff also will present some new results which are\u00a0leading to a better understanding of what these birds are doing during the \u201cblack\u00a0hole\u201d of time from after they first depart their natal colony sites until recruiting into\u00a0the breeding population several years later.<\/p>\n

Jeff is a Founding Life Member of COA. He started working on Roseate Terns in 1977, was Director of the Falkner Island Tern\u00a0Project from 1981-2003, founded the Cooperative Roseate Tern Metapopulation Project (CRTMP) in 1987, is a member of the\u00a0U.S. Fish & Wildlife\u2019s (USFWS) Roseate Tern Recovery Team, and after 35+ years as a federal employee he retired in\u00a0December 2018 to become an Emeritus Research Wildlife Biologist. Jeff has authored or co-authored more than 70 publications,\u00a0his research played an important role in the decisions by the USFWS to list Roseate Terns as Endangered and to add Falkner\u00a0Island, CT to the National Wildlife Refuge system, and he continues to direct the CRTMP which now includes cooperators\u00a0spanning the entire range of the Northwest Atlantic breeding population from Connecticut to Nova Scotia. Since 2011 he has\u00a0focused his attention on learning more about the factors that might impact individuals of different ages and breeding status in\u00a0their use of summer staging sites, especially those sites in the \u201cCape &amp; Islands\u201d area of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Frank Gallo<\/strong>
\nThe best of Where, When and How to find birds in Connecticut<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Join author\/naturalist Frank Gallo for an in depth look into where, when and how to\u00a0find birds in Connecticut. Frank\u2019s new book, Birding in Connecticut, is a state-of-the\u00a0art, user-friendly guide packed with information valuable to birders of all skill levels,\u00a0from species accounts and a first-of-a kind cumulative list of rare bird sightings to\u00a0clear and current bar graphs showing seasonality and abundance for Connecticut\u2019s bird\u00a0species. It is the first guide of its kind to offer QR code links to continually updated\u00a0information on species occurrence at each location, and is beautifully illustrated with\u00a0color photographs and maps.<\/p>\n

Frank is a leading expert on finding birds in Connecticut and has led birding\u00a0expeditions all over the world. Frank is a tour leader for Sunrise Birding, LLC, an\u00a0international birding tour company; a COA board member, a member of the\u00a0Connecticut Avian Rare Records Committee; and a federally-licensed master bird\u00a0bander. Frank is also the author of two children\u2019s nature books, Bird Calls and Night\u00a0Sounds, and is a published freelance photographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COA Annual Meeting March 23, 2019 The Connecticut Ornithological Association\u2019s 35 th Annual Meeting is being held on March 23, 2019 at Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT. Download Annual Meeting Schedule 2019 Download Annual Meeting Registration Form 2019 Guest speakers include: Eric Hanson The Natural (and Unnatural) History of the Common Loon In this program, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,14,30,17,107,108,109,106,102],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-annual-meeting","tag-birding","tag-birds","tag-coa","tag-eric-hanson","tag-frank-gallo","tag-jeff-spendelow","tag-meeting","tag-speakers","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}