Canada Warblers, Present and Future

Wednesday, Dec 3, 7pm

Canada warblers are Neotropical-Neoarctic migrants, spending winters in the forested eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains south of Columbia, and traveling over 4,000 miles each year to and from breeding grounds in the northeast. For six years, Plymouth State University biology professor Dr. Len Reitsma and his colleagues have braved the black flies and mosquitoes in Canaan, N.H., to band, track and study the diminishing Canada warbler, a small black, yellow and slate-colored bird that has been disappearing from the state due to loss of habitat. One of the more remarkable findings of this study is the fact that about half of the banded birds in the study return each season to the exact same location in New Hampshire.
Dr. Reitsma has also worked on waterfowl toxicity in Alaska and nonbreeding ecology of migratory songbirds in Jamaica and Puerto Rico.  He has been a birdwatcher since the age of 14, and a collaborator in a hawk–banding project in NH and New Jersey for over a dozen years.


Howe Library (Mayer Room),  E. South St., Hanover, NH
Contact: Ted Boze at 802 649-1047, or e-mail [log in to unmask]

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