JUNE MEETING
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - via Zoom
The Trumpet in the Orchestra of Evolution: The Story of the Sandhill
Crane in North America
By Anne Lacey
Sandhill cranes are the most numerous of the world’s fifteen crane species. They inhabit many varied places in North America – and Asia! – in both migratory and non-migratory populations. Join us for a talk that will follow this species from tropical forests to arctic tundra, and the places they go in between.
Anne grew up in Madison, leaving to attend college in
Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She received a B.A. in Psychology (1991) and returned to get a B.S. in Biology (1994). After working various jobs while taking graduate level
Geographic Information Systems courses at the
University of South Carolina, Anne was accepted to the graduate program in Biology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. After finishing coursework in Duluth in 2000, Anne accepted an internship at ICF, while also finishing her thesis. After completion of her M.S., Anne accepted a full-time position at ICF as a research associate in the Field Ecology Department (now the North America Program), working on an ongoing long-term study of Sandhill Cranes. She began working with the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership in 2009 to study the ecology of the newly reintroduced Whooping Cranes in Wisconsin.
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - via Zoom
The Trumpet in the Orchestra of Evolution: The Story of the Sandhill
Crane in North America
By Anne Lacey
Sandhill cranes are the most numerous of the world’s fifteen crane species. They inhabit many varied places in North America – and Asia! – in both migratory and non-migratory populations. Join us for a talk that will follow this species from tropical forests to arctic tundra, and the places they go in between.
Anne grew up in Madison, leaving to attend college in
Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She received a B.A. in Psychology (1991) and returned to get a B.S. in Biology (1994). After working various jobs while taking graduate level
Geographic Information Systems courses at the
University of South Carolina, Anne was accepted to the graduate program in Biology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. After finishing coursework in Duluth in 2000, Anne accepted an internship at ICF, while also finishing her thesis. After completion of her M.S., Anne accepted a full-time position at ICF as a research associate in the Field Ecology Department (now the North America Program), working on an ongoing long-term study of Sandhill Cranes. She began working with the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership in 2009 to study the ecology of the newly reintroduced Whooping Cranes in Wisconsin.
President’s letter
Springtime Greetings!
The last time I wrote this letter, we were planning Spring field trips, but since then the world’s turned upside down. What a difference a few months make!
COVID19 and a Polar Vortex seem to be conspiring to keep us away from Spring migration, but with winter coats, masks, social distancing, hand sanitizer, and common sense we are still birding from home and car and outdoors and seeing birds!
We’ve discovered that Zoom allows us to invite speakers from outside of our area with much more ease. This month we had a great talk by Tara Rhinehart from University of Pittsburgh titled Eavesdropping on Birds – using audio recorders left in the field and artificial intelligence to find out what birds are singing on any given site. And, we’re looking forward to our June 3rd talk by Anne Lacy, from the International Society of Cranes in Wisconsin, on Sandhill Cranes – with an emphasis on populations in Ohio. At our last meeting we also heard from Justin Duricky about his Eagle Scout project to build a Chimney Swift tower at Mentor Lagoons and we gave him both a grant and a promise of an additional grant if he can match it to help fund his project.
The news tells us people are looking at birds more since COVID19 started, and that’s inspired us to host a Bird ID Zoom meeting on Saturday, May 16th from 7-8 PM for birders who want help with identification. Mary Anne Romito, Fred Dinkelbach, and I will be hosting this meeting. We’re hoping it will be a lot of fun and that we’ll want to have more of these meetings in the future!
We re-elected our Board at our last meeting and our consultant Steve Sedam has finished the report of his consultation with us about our future, and we’ll be sharing that in the not too distant future.
In summary, there's lots going on and lots more in the works for the KBC moving forward. Enjoy the warmer weather when it arrives – and the birds that come with it!
Patty Kellner
President, Kirtland Bird Club
Kirtland Bird Club meets on the first Wednesday of each month, September through June at 7:30 p.m. Each month we begin with a short membership meeting followed by a speaker program. Meetings are free and all are welcome!
To see upcoming speakers and their topics go to Monthly Programs. Other programs of the Kirtland Bird Club are listed under the Activities tab above.
Because of COVID19 we are meeting via Zoom instead of our usual location, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval, Cleveland Ohio. Field trips are also on hold. We look forward to resuming in person gatherings in the future!
To see upcoming speakers and their topics go to Monthly Programs. Other programs of the Kirtland Bird Club are listed under the Activities tab above.
Because of COVID19 we are meeting via Zoom instead of our usual location, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval, Cleveland Ohio. Field trips are also on hold. We look forward to resuming in person gatherings in the future!
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Kirtland Bird Club was founded in 1940 and named after Dr. Jared Kirtland who started the Cleveland Museum of Natural history
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