Join us at 5:30 on April 7th, 2021 on Zoom!

From Mary Whitfield: “The Southern Sierra Research Station is a small non-profit organization headquartered at our research facility in the foothills of California's southern Sierra Nevada, an area unique for its convergence of 5 biological regions and thus a region of high diversity including well over 300 bird species. Our mission is to conduct, promote, facilitate, and disseminate biological research that informs conservation decisions and environmental policy, and contributes towards understanding, sustaining, and conserving natural resources and environmentally challenged species. With a focus on research in the Pacific Southwest through Central America, in collaboration with government, academic, and conservation organizations, we increase scientific knowledge of species in support of our mission, aid in projects to protect and restore endangered species and their habitats and encourage public support and appreciation for conservation of biological diversity. We have a number of ongoing long-term research projects in the Kern River Valley and beyond. These projects include work with Southwestern Willow Flycatchers, Yellow-billed Cuckoos, Tricolored Blackbirds, and Motus (a collaborative automated Radio Telemetry system). In this talk I briefly summarize our research on Willow Flycatchers, Yellow-billed Cuckoos, Tricolored Blackbirds and Motus.”