The Western PA Conservancy will host a webinar on February 19 on Finch Superflight - Tracking Winter Movements of Evening Grosbeaks from Noon to 1:00 p.m.

In the past 50 years, we have lost three billion birds across North America, with the steepest decline in the evening grosbeak population.

Scientists began studying wintering evening grosbeaks in Western Pennsylvania in 2017 to learn more about their natural history, ecology and migration movements.

They are a species that follows irruptive migration – sudden, but regular mass movements in response to changes in their environment.

This winter, we have seen a widespread irruptive migration of boreal finches, including grosbeaks, in numbers we haven’t seen in decades.

Join David Yeany, avian ecologist at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, for a free webinar to learn about this year’s finch superflight and how we are using new technology to track winter movements of evening grosbeaks and inform the conservation strategies to help protect this species.

Click Here to register for the webinar.

Water, Land, Life

The latest Water, Land, Life newsletter from the Western PA Conservancy also includes articles on--

-- Fallingwater Offers New Winter Walks Feb. 1 to March 5

-- Feb. 11 Webinar: Learn The Art Of Observation At Fallingwater

-- Apply Now For Summer Internships At WPC, Fallingwater

-- Celebrate World Wetlands Day Feb. 2

-- National Invasive Species Awareness Week Feb. 22-26

-- Students, Enroll In Fallingwater Virtual Drawing Classes Or Summer Camps

More information is available on programs, initiatives and special events at the Western PA Conservancy website.  Click Here to sign up for regular updates from the Conservancy, Like them on Facebook, Follow them on Twitter, join them on Instagram, visit the Conservancy’s YouTube Channel or add them to your network on Linkedin.  Click Here to support their work.

The Conservancy has helped to establish 11 state parks, conserved more than 250,000 acres of natural lands and protected or restored more than 3,000 miles of rivers and streams, maintains 132 community gardens and other green spaces that are planted with the help of more than 11,000 volunteers and the support of more than 9,000 members.

(Reprinted from the latest Water, Land, Life newsletter from the Western PA Conservancy.)

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[Posted: February 2, 2021]

2/8/2021