Next Monday, October 14, will be the next monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird
Club.
Our speaker, Bryant Dossman, will give a presentation titled "Birds Take Flight
Over Border Wall: Linking Winter Events to Migration Timing and Speed in a
Migratory Passerine".
Bryant is a Ph.D student at Cornell University working with Dr. Amanda Rodewald
and Dr. Pete Marra (at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center). He obtained his
Masters degree in Environment and Natural Resources at the Ohio State
University (2012-2015) working with Dr. Paul G. Rodewald and Dr. Stephen N.
Matthews, and his Bachelors of Arts degree in Biology and Environmental Studies
at Bowdoin College (2007-2011) under Dr. Nathaniel T. Wheelwright. Broadly, his
research interests lie in conservation, movement ecology, and population
biology of migratory organisms, especially birds. In particular, he is
interested in understanding how seasonal interactions influence population
dynamics, movement, and behavior between different periods of the annual cycle.
Given technological limitations in tracking most of the world’s migratory
animals, our knowledge of the ecology of migration itself is severely limited.
It is known that the quality of non-breeding habitats can result in seasonal
interactions, or carryover effects, whereby individual survival or performance
are impacted in subsequent breeding seasons. However, an understanding of how
events during breeding and nonbreeding periods directly influence events during
migration is still lacking. Bryant’s research seeks to tackle these
knowledge gaps, making use of a long-term demographic study of American
Redstart (25+ years) on the non-breeding grounds in Jamaica with a proposed
large-scale automated radio telemetry array spanning across the Caribbean and
through Florida, overlapping the migratory route of this population of
redstarts.
The meeting will be held at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Doors open
at 7:00 pm and there will be cookies and conversation starting at 7:15. Bird
club business begins at 7:30 pm followed by the presentation. All are welcome.
Members are invited to join Bryant for dinner at the Taste of Thai Express
before the meeting at 5:30 p.m. Please RSVP to Colleen Richards at
cl...@juno.com by noon Monday so reservations can be made.
See you all on Monday.
Colleen Richards
Corresponding Secretary
Cayuga Bird Club
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