Greetings!
We are proud to announce that Tuesday, September 24th, the Columbus Audubon
programs begin at 7pm at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center in downtown
Columbus at the Scioto-Audubon Metro Park. We look forward to seeing
members and guests as we kick off the new season of top notch programs and
speakers. Visit our website and calendar to learn more about all that we
offer. www.columbusaudubon.org Please view our 2013-14 program listing
and mark your calendars!
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See you Tuesday!
Darlene Sillick
Columbus Audubon, co-program chair
Please join us at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, September 24, at the Grange Insurance
Audubon Center as we welcome Stephen Kress to tell us about Restoring
Endangered Seabirds: Lessons from Puffins and Terms.
Humans have devastated seabird colonies in many parts of the world by
excessive hunting for food and feathers and by introducing mammals such as
cats and rats to otherwise secure nesting islands. Worldwide, 29% of all
seabird species are now globally threatened as marine pollution, coastal
development and effects of global warming are growing concerns. And while
seabird nesting islands seem safe due to their remoteness, they are
intimately connected to human activities. Tonight's speaker, Steve Kress,
will tell us about the techniques that he developed on Maine islands to help
restore puffins and terns to historic nesting islands and how these same
techniques are helping seabirds worldwide. His talk will include case
studies in seabird restoration as diverse as Common Murres in California to
relocation of Short-tailed Albatross off of an active volcano in Japan and
even efforts to save the endangered Bermuda Petrel from rising oceans and
increased frequency of hurricanes.
Steve Kress is Vice-President for Bird Conservation for the National Audubon
Society and Manager of the Society's Maine Coast Seabird Sanctuaries. As
Director of Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program, he develops techniques
for managing colonial nesting seabirds. In this capacity, he has
re-established seabird colonies along the Maine coast for Atlantic Puffins,
Arctic, Common and Roseate Terns, and Leach's Storm-Petrel. In the Pacific,
he has conducted conservation projects for endangered Dark-rumped Petrels in
the Galapagos Islands and Short-tailed Albatross on Midway Island as well as
many other species.
You may not know this important fact about Steve: he is a Buckeye.: he
received his B.S. and M.S degrees from Ohio State University before going on
to a Ph.D. from Cornell. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Cornell
Lab. of Ornithology where he teaches a popular course in Field Ornithology.
He is a former director of the Audubon Camp in Maine and was ornithology
instructor at Hog Island for many years. Among his many books on birding and
backyard wildlife management, he is author of The Audubon Society Guide to
Attracting Birds, Bird Garden, The Audubon Society Birder's Handbook, the
Audubon Birdfeeder Guide, Saving Birds, Project Puffin, and Birdlife (Golden
Guide), as well as many scientific papers on seabird biology and
conservation.
7:00 - 7:15 pm: CA Short Program: Join Columbus Audubon past president Julie
Davis for a fascinating look at The Arts of Birding on Hog Island. Julie
will be telling us about her experience at the famous Hog Island Audubon
Camp in Maine -- not far from some of the Steve Kress' seabird colony work!
7:15 - 7:30 pm: Social time, refreshments and bird quiz of some of the birds
you will find on Hog Island with specimens on loan from The OSU
bio-diversity museum- thank you Angelika Nelson!
7:30 - 9:00 pm: Main program, door prizes
Columbus Audubon public programs are free and open to the public. All
programs are held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center (505 West Whittier
Street
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> in the Scioto-Audubon Metro Park on the Whittier Peninsula).
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