Host:
Anne Arundel Bird Club
Meeting ID: You can choose to click on the link or phone in using the number and PIN below.
meet.google.com/scu-qzmv-knd
Phone Number: 516-342-4292
PIN: 785 876 008#
Contact: Chris Eberly at 540-270-5248 or director@marylandbirds.org
Description:
“Participating in the 3rd Maryland-DC Breeding Bird Atlas” with Gabriel Foley
Gabriel Foley has a challenge for you. He wants you to join a community of hundreds of birders over the next five years to document the distribution, abundance, and timing of
birds that breed in Maryland and DC. The data you collect will be used to directly inform future decisions related to bird conservation and management. By taking this challenge
on, you’ll be exploring new areas, studying your favorite haunts more closely, and learning more about bird behavior.
This project is the 3rd Maryland-DC Breeding Bird Atlas (BBA3). The citizen science platform ‘eBird’ will be used for data collection. Using eBird will allow participants to view live progress of effort and species at the state, county, and block level (a grid of 1,302 nine-square-mile blocks overlays the state). One of the most wonderful things about an atlas is that folks of all skill levels can participate; it is not reserved for ‘expert’ birders. A friendly sense of competition may emerge between observers, but ultimately, we’re all doing this because we enjoy birds, we want to learn more about them, and we want healthy, thriving bird populations.
Gabriel Foley is an avid birder from the prairie province of Saskatchewan, Canada, located north of Montana and North Dakota. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. For his master’s thesis, also at the University of Regina, he researched nighthawk habitat use in Canada’s boreal forest. Gabriel has also published research on acoustic analysis and interactions between bats and nighthawks around the Washington Monument in D.C. Over the past decade, birds have taken him around the world. He studied White-browed Sparrow-Weaver nest-building behavior at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, as a visiting researcher. He has worked on research projects in Alaska, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Nunavut,
coordinated Saskatchewan’s nightjar surveys, and hosted a weekly nature radio show, The Prairie Naturalist. Now, he is excited to be the Coordinator for the 3rd Maryland-DC Breeding Bird Atlas. Connect with him on Twitter and Instagram at @birdnirdfoley
