May 2023 Banquet and Meeting

Tue, May 2, 6:00 pm
Blue Spruce County Park Lodge
Speaker: Annie Lindsay

Description

This is our annual banquet meeting. Please bring a dish
to share and your own place settings. Annie Lindsay from Powdermill Avian Research Center will be our presenter. Her talk is entitled "How Do We Know How Old That Bird Is?" Learn what techniques bird banders use to age birds in the hand, and whether some of these could be applied to ageing birds through binoculars. Then, we'll jump across the Pacific Ocean to a small island called Saipan where we'll learn how ageing techniques used in North America were applied to determining how to age Saipan's songbirds.

Annie Lindsay is the Bird Banding Program Manager at Powdermill Nature Reserve in Rector, PA, field station of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where she runs the long-term bird banding station and teaches banding workshops. She earned her M.S. in Natural Resources at the Ohio State University where she studied the effects of winter habitat quality, as determined by stable-carbon isotope analysis, on plumage characteristics and reproductive success in Yellow Warblers. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toledo where she studies trends in long-term bird banding datasets, and how anthropogenic factors, in particular climate change, affect avian populations, movements, and behavior. Annie is a North American Banding Council certified bander trainer and serves in leadership roles for several bird-related organizations and societies. Sheï¿½s an avid birder and loves sharing the hobby with new birders, especially her son Tommy!