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SUMMARY:Climate Watch\, Spring/Summer season 5/15/24-6/15/24
DESCRIPTION:Climate Watch is Audubon’s biannual community science program that enlists volunteer bird-lovers across North America to tally for twelve target bird species \nClimate Watch – Summer Season – May 15th-June 15th\, 2024 Climate Watch \nClimate Watch is sponsored by the National Audubon Society (NAS) & takes place during two distinct seasons—winter (January 15-February 15) and summer (May 15-June 15). Below is the alert for any season (winter or summer) . \nLike the Christmas bird count this is a chance to help create “citizen science” for birds. Climate Watch focuses on these target species: Eastern Bluebird\, Mountain Bluebird\, Western Bluebird\, White-breasted Nuthatch\, Red-breasted Nuthatch\, Brown-headed Nuthatch\, Pygmy Nuthatch\, American Goldfinch\, Lesser Goldfinch\, Painted Bunting\, Eastern Towhee\, and Spotted Towhee. \nThese birds are easy to identify\, have an enthusiastic constituency\, and Audubon’s climate models for these species offer strong predictions for range shifts for us to test. In future years\, Climate Watch may include additional target species threatened by climate change. We believe that western bluebird and painted bunting are not normally in SD. All the other birds occur in all or parts of SD. \nVisit this page to see where these birds are in SD\, and which are near you: \nhttps://www.sdakotabirds.com/species_main.htm\nLocation Climate Watch focuses on areas of predicted change for these 12 species at each location across the continent. Audubon provides volunteers with online mapping tools with a grid of 10 km x 10 km squares showing species-specific predictions for each square based on the climate models. A Climate Watch Coordinator can help select your location and survey square. If you are participating on your own\, use the online maps to decide in which square to do your surveys. You will be able to see which squares are already “claimed”. \nHow to count Volunteers should first make sure to read through all of the materials including the full protocol manual. The Climate Watch protocol is different than any other birding program. Then using the planning done with the online maps\, volunteers survey appropriate habitat for the target species within a square and conduct 12 point counts of five minutes each within one morning\, then record the number and species of all birds seen or heard within 100 meters. Participants send the data to the National Audubon Society. \nHow data will be used  Audubon’s 2019 climate change report\, ‘Survival By Degrees\, – https://www.audubon.org/climate/survivalbydegrees – reveals that up to two-thirds of North American birds are vulnerable to extinction due to climate change. For example\, the beautiful Mountain Bluebird is vulnerable because in the vast majority of its summer range\, the climate conditions that this bird needs—temperature\, amount of rainfall\, and other environmental factors—will shift northward and eastward. This bird may be able to move into new areas over time\, or it may struggle to adapt. To test the report’s predictions\, Audubon has developed Climate Watch\, which aims to document species’ responses to climate change and test Audubon’s climate models by having volunteers in the field look for birds where Audubon’s climate models predict they will be in the 2020s. This information helps Audubon target our conservation work to protect birds. See the Climate Watch results page here to see our early reports and results from the data received by Climate Watch volunteers so far! \nLink to the Climate-watch program on the National Audubon Society web page \nhttps://www.audubon.org/conservation/climate-watch \nClimate watch instructions for participants \nhttps://www.audubon.org/news/participant-resources-climate-watch\nClimate watch for beginners webinar\, – this has much of the same info as our November meeting \nhttps://audubon.zoom.us/rec/share/xe9NAZTe6WVOf7fz2kbRAYAQMI66eaa8hCFL_fNZn0k3a8uNjHkvp4-EZzq7vlq_?startTime=1588186808000
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/climate-watch-spring-summer-season/
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SUMMARY:SD Ornithologist Union's Spring Meeting - Custer\, SD
DESCRIPTION:SD Ornithologist Union’s Spring Meeting – Custer\, SD \nCuster SD May 31-June 2\, 2024\, All gatherings will be at the Custer County Annex Building*\, 447 Crook St. Custer SD\, in the Pine room. For more information: https://sdou.org/SDOU/NextMeeting.aspx \nFriday evening  5 pm- 7 pm registration/social  then: \n 7pm-8 pm Friday with a presentation ( by well known landscape photographer/author/and historian Paul Horstead\, as they celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Custer expedition. His recreation of historical photos taken during the 1874 survey of the Black Hills by the US Calvery\, show the history and the changes that have come to Western South Dakota in the past 150years.   \n 7 am- 6 pm on Saturday are Pplanned field trips that will head in all four directions – north to granite peaks\, south to the Whitney Preserve (SW of Hot Springs)\, east to Custer State Park\,  and west to Hell Canyon and Boles/Roby Canyon. These field trip options repeat on Sunday morning.\, except Saturday field trips last 7 am- 6 pm but Sunday’s are shorter. \n6-7 pm Saturday – Dinner/Banquete: Hillbilly BBQ will provide their locally famous BBQ Brisquit with sides of cowboy beans\, corn on the cob and chopped veggie salad known as “Grandma’s salad”. Non meat option will be stuffed grilled portabella mushroom and the same sides. A selection of pies for dessert\, provided by The Purple Pie Place.  \n7 pm-8pm MT\, Saturday – Evening’s keynote speaker: Maggie Engler\, life long birder and director of the Black Hills Raptor Center will bring some of her education birds for a chance to see these raptors very up close and personal . \n7 am – 12 am\, Sunday Field trips – with  same 4  trip options  as Saturday  \n12-1 pm –  a count off. \nRegistration is $30\, meals may be $24/@ for adult and $12/@ for child – to  get  meal please be register by 5/24/24. Link to on-line registration \nhttps://sdou.org/SDOU/Registration.aspx?mtg=19 \n 
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/sd-ornithologist-unions-spring-meeting-custer-sd/
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