December 2012 Meeting

Tue, December 4, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Blue Spruce County Park
Speaker: Emily Thomas, USDA Forest Service�s Northern Research Station

Description

This is our annual Christmas cookie extravaganza. Please bring a dozen cookies to share. Emily Thomas will present "Getting in Touch with Birds: Bird Banding in the Name of Science!" at this meeting. She will share her bird banding experiences from intense fall migrations to Golden Eagle banding and explain why the data collected are important tools in avian conservation. Emily holds an Associate degree in Wildlife Technology from Penn State DuBois and Bachelorï¿½s and Masterï¿½s degrees in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from Penn State University Park. She has been employed as a wildlife biologist by the USDA Forest Serviceï¿½s Northern Research Station in Irvine, PA, since 2005 where she has worked on various research projects on the effects of forestry practices and oil and gas development on songbirds in the Allegheny National Forest. She is currently an instructor in the wildlife technology program at Penn State DuBois. She has been banding birds since 2005 and has banded more than 4,000 birds of 111 species.