Replay and Resources—Feathers in the Sky: An Exploration of Bird Migration

If you missed Lynne’s talk, you can watch it here.

Lynne Flaccus, CLC Stewardship Director and naturalist, shares the story of bird migration, focusing on our North American feathered friends that make their annual migrations from and through our backyards. Each year billions of birds wing their way across North America and south to their “winter homes,” then return in the spring. We’ll explore where they go and why, and how they find their way whether by day or by night.

Here are links to the resources Lynne mentions in this talk:

• American Bird Conservancy

• Biodiversity Research Institute

• Boreal Songbird Initiative

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Tons of bird info, Project Feeder Watch, Great Backyard Bird Count, and more

• New Hampshire Audubon

• Partners in Flight

• Project Snowstorm: Snowy owl research and tracking

• Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

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• Living on the Wind, Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Scott Weidensaul (Cook Library has a copy.)

• “Migration Numbers Plunge for the Red Knot, a Threatened Shore Bird,” New York Times

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