Join Space Coast Audubon Society for our
October 16th Meeting
“Bird Banding Basics
and Current Research on Painted Buntings”
WHO: Space Coast Audubon
Society (SCAS)
WHERE: Rockledge
Presbyterian Church, 921 Rockledge Dr, Rockledge, FL
WHEN: October 16, 2015 at
7:30 pm
Nancy LaFramboise will present Bird Banding Basics and Current Research on
Painted Buntings
Nancy has been studying birds since
1982 and has birded in 49 of the 50 states and parts of Canada. She
started banding training as a volunteer for US Fish and Wildlife Service
(USFWS) in 2001 and eventually worked for them. She worked with a
sub-permit on a study of White-crowned Sparrows in Washington State from 2007
until 2011 when she moved to Stuart.
Since September 2012 Nancy has been running a banding station at Audubon
of Martin County's property in Stuart (Possum Long). In December 2013 she
started banding Painted Buntings in conjunction with the volunteers who assist
me and the University of North Carolina.
Banding is a research tool used to
understand many data points about birds. It can help the researcher
understand more about abundance, ages, species diversity, and site fidelity in
bird populations. The program in Stuart at the Audubon of Martin County property
known as Possum Long has been operating since October 2012 and has provided
some interesting information and species. This project has also led to
the banding team working with the University of North Carolina on its Painted
Bunting Research. In order to help understand this declining species,
banding is being used to document birds returning to feeders, where
overwintering Florida birds go to breed, what makes a Painted Bunting choose a
yard, and much more.
Visit the Space Coast Audubon Society
website at www.spacecoastaudubon.org and check out the Space
Coast Audubon Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/Space-Coast-Audubon
We look forward to another great
turnout.
Jim Eager
Space Coast Audubon Society
Vice President
Program/Publicity Chair
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