Southeastern Vermont Audubon Society: Monthly Meetings

SVAS Programs are back this Fall!

The Southeastern Vermont Audubon Society is pleased to be able to offer online monthly presentations this Fall. Hopefully these will help tide us all over until we can meet in person again!

Tuesday, September 15 7 PM

“The not so dismal birds: My year working with Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers at the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge” with Audrey Boraski

Growing up in the Northeast, the dense forests and varying geographical features fostered Audrey’s love for nature and sparked her curiosity about the critters around her. Wanting to learn more about the living world, she carried her curiosity through adulthood by earning a B.S. in Biology and is currently finishing an M.S. in Conservation Biology. Audrey has worked, interned and volunteered at many different wildlife/conservation/environmental organizations around the country over the past few years. Some of her most memorable work took place within the insect-packed interior of the Great Dismal Swamp in Southeastern Virginia. Here she wore the hat of Biology Intern working on different projects, one of them being the Red Cockaded Woodpecker (Dryobates borealis) reintroduction effort. On the weekends she volunteered around the Southeastern Virginia area on various other ornithological activities from FeederWatch and the Breeding Bird Atlas to assisting at banding stations and building Piping Plover exclusion fencing.

To Join This Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83498359117 When you click on this link it should open a dialog box that asks if you want to launch Zoom. Click Yes and you should be added to the meeting shortly.

Audrey Boraski holds a Prothonotary Warbler at a banding station

Tuesday, October 20 7 PM

Connecticut Revisited: An Update on the Research into Saltmarsh Sparrows

with Sam Apgar

Phd Candidate at the University of Connecticut has spent the past few years conducting monitoring and research into the declining Saltmarsh Sparrow. Sam presented at an SVAS meeting back in 2018. She'll be joining us via Zoom to provide an exciting update to her research. More details to follow!