The September meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club will be held September 11, 2023, 7:30pm at Kendal at Ithaca (please arrive early;see directions here). Note that social time begins at 7 pm with the "reading of the list" at 7:20. Our speaker will be Kathryn Grabenstein, Postdoc, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and she will be presenting A Tale of Two Cities: Cryptic Chickadee Hybridization in an Urban World. Citizen science projects are powerful tools for bridging the gap between scientists and the communities where they work. In this framework, scientists can collect otherwise unattainable data and communities can engage with science in ways they traditionally would not be able to do, benefiting both groups. The Boulder Chickadee Study is a network of nest boxes monitored by over 75+ citizen scientists that spans a large montane gradient from the City of Boulder all the way up the tree line just below the continental divide in the Front Range of Colorado. For her dissertation work, Kathryn founded and directed this large citizen science project to explore hybridization in Colorado chickadees in the context of human development. A tale of two cities: cryptic chickadee hybridization in an urban world, will delve into how this project was kickstarted, what was learned about chickadee hybridization in the past 4 years, and what we hope to discover in the future.About the Speaker: After competing my undergraduate work at Cornell University, I joined the lab of Dr. Scott Taylor at the University of Colorado in Boulder. I study hybridization of birds in human contexts—specifically, when humans transform earth’s landscapes, creating conditions that cause co-occurring species to hybridize, when otherwise, they wouldn’t. Currently, as a Rose Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, I combine field studies, museum specimens, eBird data, and genomics to investigate how human habitat disturbances drive hybridization in chickadees, and the evolutionary consequences of this hybridization. There will be a speaker dinner at 5:30 p.m. at the Ithaca Sumo Japanese Hibachi & Sushi restaurant (2309 N Triphammer Rd in the Cayuga Mall). Please rsvp to Colleen Richards cl...@juno.com by noon on Monday, Sept. 11 so reservations can be made. Have fun birding as those migrants have begun moving through our area.Colleen RichardsCayuga Bird ClubCorresponding Secretary Cayuga Bird Club meetings are held on the second Monday of each month, September through June, and are free and open to the public. In-person meetings start with social time at 7:00pm, the reading of the bird list at 7:20pm, and club business at 7:30pm, followed by the speaker's presentation starting around 8:00pm and ending by 9:00pm. We will attempt to make presentations available virtually as a recording posted a few days later, on our YouTube channel @cayugabirdclub. Some meetings may be virtual by Zoom only, or may shift to Zoom if warranted by circumstances. See Parking directions for Kendal. Zoom webinar tips can be found here:CBC Zoom webinar tips.pdf --
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