The NorthEast Hawk Watch (NEHW) will holds it 11th
quadrennial regional hawk migration conference on Saturday, March 30, 2019, at
Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, MA. The all-day conference features nine
presentations by some of the nation’s premier authorities on hawks.
·
Dr. Laurie Goodrich on Broad-winged Hawk
Migration Ecology and Conservation
·
Dr. Rob Bierregard on Osprey journeys and the
new technology used to track them
·
Dr. Cheryl Dykstra on urban raptors: their behavioral
ecology in cities
·
Chris Martin on dispersal, migration, and overwinter
site fidelity of female Peregrines in New Hampshire
·
Eric Masterson on following Broad-winged Hawk
migration via bicycle
·
Dr. David Oleyar presentation on the latest
Raptor Population Index
·
Chris DeSorbo on the conflicting influences of
mercury contamination and the restoration of anadromous fish on Maine’s Bald
Eagle population
·
Larry Fischer on the life history of Saw-whet
Owls from four seasons of banding returns
·
Trudy Battaly and Drew Panko on the importance
of your migration counts and what they tell us
Registration for the conference is now open.
For complete information, including directions to the conference, speakers’
abstracts, and registration forms, visit
https://battaly.com/nehw/conference
Registration is $45 FOR NEHW members; $50 for
nonmembers. ($55 covers conference registration and a year’s membership in the
NEHW, including a 36-40 pp annual report on hawk migration in the northeast.) An
optional luncheon sandwich buffet (including vegetarian selections) is $15.
Register in advance; first forty registrants receive a free one-page hawk
calendar.
Looking forward to seeing you at the conference,
