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FARMINGTON — Maine Audubon wildlife ecologist Sally Stockwell, will give a one-hour presentation, “What’s Happening to Our Birds?”, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9 in a live webinar.
Registration is required, and participants can register by clicking here.
Stockwell will examine the shocking decline in forest bird numbers both in the region and throughout North America. She will also discuss steps both individuals and society can take to help mitigate further declines. The talk is sponsored by Western Maine Audubon and is free and open to the public.
A recent article in the journal Science documents declines among 64 percent of all eastern forest bird species — a loss of 167 million birds –and among 50 percent of all boreal forest species — a loss of 501 million birds — in North America alone. That means nearly one in four of all eastern forest birds and one in three of all boreal forest birds that were coloring the forest with their flashy feathers and cheerful songs in 1970 are no longer with us.
There are many reasons for the declines. Some of the more persistent are habitat loss on both breeding and wintering grounds, loss or degradation of migratory stopovers, decline or contamination of insect food from overuse of pesticides, collisions with windows and other human structures and predation from cats.
Stockwell is director of conservation at Maine Audubon. She is a wildlife ecologist with experience in conservation of nongame, rare and endangered species in freshwater wetlands, coastal beaches and marshes and northern forests.
