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Membership Meeting
March 23, 2016 @ 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm
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The Northern Saw-whet Owl in Your Back Yard
This month’s talk, “The Northern Saw-whet Owl in Your Back Yard”, describes John Confer’s fall banding station at his houseon Hammond Hill for migrating Northern Saw-whet Owls and describes saw-whet migration and population dynamics in eastern
North America. John has banded between 50 and 100 saw-whets in the last four falls. The talk focuses on migratory patterns revealed from the 250,00 banded saw-whets and the 1,400 that have been banded and recaptured again in the same fall. Last spring, John monitored 7 Merlin nests in the Ithaca area and could be persuaded to add a few Merlin observations from the recent paper.