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Ms. Dale Rosselet has been with New Jersey Audubon since 1983 and has extensive experience teaching pre-school, elementary, and secondary grades in both formal and non-formal situations. As Vice President for Education she oversees all statewide and center-based programming efforts for the organization as well as nature center operations. She currently chairs the governor-appointed New Jersey Commission for Environmental Education, is co-chair of National Wildlife Federation’s Youth Engagement Caucus, and is past President of the Alliance for New Jersey Environmental Education, NJ’s statewide professional organization for environmental educators.
Ms. Rosselet has been recognized with several awards including the 2008 Garden State Woman of the Year Environment Award, the 2012 Education Award from Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey and the 2013 Lifetime Achievement award from the Alliance for New Jersey Environmental Education. She has co-authored several nature-based curriculum guides for New Jersey Audubon including Bridges to the Natural World, as well as a popular birding book, Birding by Impression.
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FRANK GALLO is a leading expert on where to find birds in Connecticut and has led birding expeditions all over the world. Frank is a member of the Connecticut Avian Rare Records Committee, and a federally licensed master bird bander. Frank’s new book, Birding in Connecticut, a guide to where, when, and how to find birds in the state. Published date of May 2018.
Birding in Connecticut is the definitive guide to where, when and, how to find birds in the state. Packed with information valuable to birders of all skill levels, from species accounts and a first-of-a kind cumulative list of rare bird sightings to a host of tips and tricks to finding and identifying birds. It is an invaluable resource on the habits and habitats of Connecticut’s birdlife, with clear and up-to-date bar graphs showing seasonal occurrence and abundance for every Connecticut bird species. It is the first guide of its kind to offer QR code links to continually updated information on the occurrence and abundance of birds at each location. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs and maps, Birding in Connecticut is the perfect companion for experts and novices alike.
Book Giveaway Contest: BCR will be giving away a copy of his newly released book at the end of this episode. You must answer both the two questions to win a copy of the book at the end of this show. Please contact Mardi Dickinson by sending your contact information with your two answers. First one to guess correctly will be contacted, posted and announced on BirdCallsRadio.
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Virginia Rose, The Boardwalk, Maumee Bay State Park Lodge, Oregon, OH in 2017. ©Photo Courtesy of Virginia Rose. All Rights Reserved.
In 1973 at age 14, Virginia Rose was injured in a horseback riding accident and continued her life as a paraplegic in a wheelchair. She taught college and high school English for 28 years and retired 2 years ago in 2016. Virginia began birding in 2003 after hearing a lecture on breeding success of the house finch in Austin, sponsored by Travis Audubon. She took every TAS class and went on as many field trips as I could, working around my busy teaching career. The Travis Audubon teachers and field trip leaders never said no to me, not once. They took me everywhere the other walking birders went. When I could not get to the LeConte’s sparrow, the leader and birders encircled the bird and moved it to within 6 feet of me. A lifer.
Viginia began leading beginning birding birdwalks in 2010 and has identified over 30 accessible birding spots in Austin. Then joined the Travis Audubon Board of Directors in 2017. She did her first independent Birdathon in April, 2018. From dawn to dusk, Virginia visited 5 accessible parks, wheeled about 10 miles, and saw 52 bird species.
Birding brought her a serious, joyful, and meaningful experience complete with a community willing to include her on every level. Viginia wanted to bring the birding experience to as many mobility-challenged people as she could and initiated Birdability just a couple short months ago. Viginia have already led 2 walks with people in wheelchairs I did not know.
The ultimate goal is to introduce mobility-challenged people to birding in as many locations as possible and create teams in locations which can host other teams. So, an Austin team can invite a Houston team to bird the accessible Austin sites and then Houston can reciprocate and host Austin to see all the accessible Houston sites. Ultimately, Viginia would like to see Birdability across the U. S. and beyond.
Birdability
Travis Audubon
Interested in learning more about Viginia Rose and Birdability. At Ms. Rose’s request please click and contact Mardi Dickinson by sending a message with your details and contact information and I will pass the message along.
Rio Grande Valley in 2015. Front row, left to right, is Deb Wallace, Virginia Rose, Judith Bailey. Middle row, left to right, Lee Wallace, Frances Cerbins, Terry Banks. Back row, left to right, Craig Rasmussen, Eric Stager, Dennis Palafox, Jeff Patterson. ©Photo Courtesy of Virginia Rose. All Rights Reserved.
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Today’s show is a continued featured series called “Women In Conservation” with this series 2nd guest Kimberly Kaufman. Kimberly Kaufman’s lifelong love of the outdoors grew into a passion for birds in the 1990s. She monitored nesting bald eagles for the Ohio Division of Wildlife and ran bluebird trails before she began banding migrant songbirds for the Black Swamp Bird Observatory. Kim’s involvement grew, becoming the observatory’s education director then executive director in 2009, a position she still holds. Kim was instrumental in starting the highly successful Ohio Young Birders Club, a group for teenagers that has served as a model for youth programs in many other states, as well as The Biggest Week In American Birding, which has rapidly become one of the largest birding festivals on the continent. She also co-authored the Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England. She and her husband, Kenn, live in rural Ohio with their two (indoor) cats, Kirby and Pearl.
Black Swamp Bird Observatory
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Mardi Dickinson, BirdCallsRadio & Podcast Host, talks with Tom Bartlett on location at the Biggest week In American Birding 2018. Tom has for the past 23 years, conducted the Annual Big Sit fundraiser for Black Swamp Bird Observatory’s (BSBO) education programs on International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD). Magee Marsh S.P., Oak Harbor, OH. ©Townsend P. Dickinson All Rights Reserved.
We are reporting LIVE from several locations in Northwest Ohio. This area is a world renowned migrant trap during spring migration of songbirds. Many people flock here to get their fill of warblers and other little gems at this time of year. I am also attending the Biggest Week in American Birding 2018 Festival, now in it’s ninth year, that takes place at the same time. This festival is hosted by the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, under the guidance of Executive Director, Kimberly Kaufman and an incredible team of staff and numerous volunteers.
L. to R. Jason Guerard, Outreach Director, BSBO; Mardi Dickinson, Host of BirdCallsRadio; Jasmine Cupp, Communications Director, BSBO; Laura Guerard, Education Director, BSBO. At The Biggest Week in America Birding 2018, NW Ohio. ©BirdCallsRadio All Rights Reserved.
Many people from around the world agreed to be interviewed by me for this episode of BirdCallsRadio and they tell us why they come to this area for this segment called “Biggest Week 2018 Moments”.
Checking out the Black-throated Grey Warbler who graced itself at The Biggest Week in America Birding 2018, Magee Marsh Boardwalk, Oak Harbor, NW Ohio. ©Mardi Welch Dickinson/Kymry Group. All Rights Reserved.
This is one of my favorite places to visit annually in the spring as it always fills my heart and soul with hope seeing these beautiful songbirds that make the long northward journey from the Caribbean, Central and South America to their breeding grounds.
L. to R. Kevin Perozeni, Christian Hagenlocher, Cassidy Flicker, Tyler Flicker and Kandace Glanville. Biggest Week in America Birding 2018, Magee Marsh Boardwalk, Oak Harbor, NW Ohio. ©Mardi Welch Dickinson / KymryGroup. All Rights Reserved.
I look forward to next year’s 10th Anniversary of the Biggest Week 2019 that will take place from May 3-12, 2019. Thank you to all the wonderful people who took time out from birding and were kind enough to stop and share their thoughts with me on this episode #131 of BirdCallsRadio.
L. to R. Townsend P. Dickinson, Photographer/Writer; Linda Rockwell, Birder/Photographer. The Biggest Week in America Birding 2018, Magee Marsh Boardwalk, Oak Harbor, NW Ohio. ©Mardi Welch Dickinson/Kymry Group. All Rights Reserved.
Show Notes:
Biggest Week 2018 Moments in Northwest Ohio.
BCR 091: Biggest Week 2017 Snippets
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Bonnie Paton Moon in yard with Marion Paton’s Rose Garden in the background ready to bloom
Bonnie Paton Moon, author and a daughter of the late Wally and Marion Paton of Paton’s Birders Haven now in perpetuity and called Tucson Audubon’s Paton Center for Hummingbirds.
After her mother’s passing in 2009, Bonnie embarked on a 4 and 1/2 year odyssey, to preserve and protect her parent’s internationally renowned birding Mecca known as Paton’s Birder Haven in Patagonia, AZ. Due to the foresight of the Paton family, and the partnership of the American Bird Conservancy, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours and Tucson Audubon Society supported by thousand s of generous supporters, this little gem of birding paradise has now been saved in perpetuity. Saved not only for the birds that have come to depend on the Paton’s habitat for food and water, but also for the future generations of birders and nature enthusiast can share this delightful oasis in the desert. Wally and Marion Paton welcomed thousands of visitors from around the world into their back yard for decades, asking nothing in return. Children of the Depression, Wally and Marion grew up in an era of scarcity and self-sufficiency. The hardships of their early years evoked in them a strong work ethic, compassion, kindness, and a generosity of spirit that was the catalyst in transforming their yard into a tiny piece of birding paradise.
Bonnie Paton Moon’s recently published book and eBook, “Journey Home” is the remarkable story of how the world renowned Paton Center for Hummingbirds came to be and how it is being saved for future generations of birdwatchers.
BCR 080: Bonnie Paton Moon & Larry Morgan – Paton’s Birders Haven Lives On! Part 1
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Sheri L. Williamson is a lifelong naturalist, co-founder and co-director of the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory, and author of A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America in the Peterson Field Guide Series. She lives near the Mexican border in Bisbee, Arizona with her husband and colleague Tom Wood and their dependents: a geriatric parrot, a rescue dog, three pampered pet chickens, and hundreds of freeloading wild birds.
Sheri L. Williamson website
BCR 192: Tom Wood, Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary Saved
Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory
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Dr. David Toews is an NSERC Banting post-doctoral research fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, working with Irby Lovette. David is interested in evolutionary biology, genomics, and molecular ecology in avian systems. Much of my research combines DNA sequencing data with other information about birds to learn about general evolutionary processes—how do new bird species evolve? What are the differences between closely related species? Recently, David have been studying hybrid zones between several species of wood warblers, trying to learn about the genes that give rise to the amazing diversity of color in this family of birds. He is also studying how long-distance migration has evolved in warblers, and what genes are responsible for warblers that have distinct migratory behaviors.
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Women Birders Big Year Panel at the Biggest Week in American Birding 2018. l. to r. Laura Erickson, Laura Keene, Yve Morrell, Nancy McAllister and Lynn Barber. ©Photo Courtesy by Nancy McAllister
Show Notes:
Today’s show I am reporting live at the Biggest Week in American Birding 2018 on a keynote panel about five Women Birders Big Year that took place on Wedsnesday, May 9, 2018 called Power Women In Birding: A Big Year Panel Discussion. I was given permission to record and air this Keynote on BirdCallsRadio by Kimberly Kaufman, Executive Director of Black Swamp Bird that hosts the Biggest Week In American Birding Festival 2018 and the five Panelist featuring; Lynn Barber, Laura Erickson, Laura Keene, Nancy McAllister, and Yve Morrell. Each of the panelists had a very different way and reason in doing a Big Year. Plese join us and listen in to these wonderful women birders talk about their Big Years!
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Biggest Week in American Birding
Black Swamp Bird Observatory
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Originally from London, England, Luke transplanted to the United States in 2003. As a professional hawk watcher he traveled the world to witness raptor migration and has experience counting raptors in North America, Europe and the Middle East. He has written about birds and birding for publications here in the US and in Europe including Audubon Magazine, Bird Watch Magazine and ABA’s Birding Magazine. Since 2012 Luke has sat on the Hawk Migration Association of North America Board and chairs their Tours Committee. Luke is currently based in Altadena California and employed as a professional tour guide. You will find him at most birding festivals working on the ZEISS Sports Optics booth.
Under Clear Skies
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