LSPA's Center for Lake Studies presents ~
New Hampshire’s Winter Birds
Thursday, January 27, 7:00 PM
Please register in advance for this meeting on LSPA's website.
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NH Audubon’s Dr. Pamela Hunt, Senior Biologist, will share her expertise on the “Backyard Winter Bird Survey,” a citizen science project that has been collecting data on the state’s birds since 1967. In this program, Dr. Hunt will use the Survey’s data to illustrate how populations of our common winter birds have been changing over time. In the process, she’ll explore many other aspects of bird biology.
Pam Hunt has been interested in birds since the tender age of 12, when an uncle took her to Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge in NJ. She went on to earn a B.S. in biology from Cornell University, M.A. in zoology from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 1995. Pam came to NH Audubon in 2000 after five years as adjunct faculty at Colby-Sawyer College in New London. In her current position as Avian Conservation Biologist, she works closely with NH Fish and Game to coordinate and prioritize bird research and monitoring in the state, and authored NH's "State of the Birds" report. Specific areas of interest include habitat use by early successional birds (particularly whip-poor-wills), conservation of aerial insectivores (e.g., swifts and swallows), and the effects of events outside the breeding season on long-distance migrants. Pam also coordinated the “NH Dragonfly Survey,” a five-year project that mapped distributions of these insects throughout the state and remains active in the dragonfly field.
