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All Things Finch: Irruptions, Winter Forecasts, and the Finch Research Network

Audubon Society of Central Arkansas meeting

Thursday, October 12, 2023
10:30am Central Online Event

All Things Finch: Irruptions, Winter Forecasts, and the Finch Research Network

October 12, 2023

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This is Audubon Society of Central Arkansas's monthly meeting. All are welcome to tune in. This month's speaker is Matt Young, President and Founder of the Finch Research Network. Many birders love to see the invasion of northern finches, whether Evening Grosbeaks, Siskins, Purple Finches or Crossbills; colorful visitors from the North. In this program Matt will cover all things finch, from finch irruptions, to winter finch forecasts, to finch research projects, including projects like the Evening Grosbeak Road to Recovery Project, and the distribution and ecology of Red Crossbill flight calls.

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Matthew A. Young is President and Founder of the Finch Research Network. He has a B.S. in Water Resources with a minor in Meteorology from SUNY-Oneonta and an M.S. in Ornithology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry/Syracuse University. He was a Regional Editor of the Kingbird for 10 years, the state ornithological journal in New York, was an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Studies at SUNY-Cortland, and currently teaches an Intro to Birding class for Cornell University and is the Board Chair at The Wetland Trust. For over 25 years he’s been a social worker. He’s also worked at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for 15 years where he’s done extensive field work including leading the Lab’s first Finch Irruptive Bird Survey for Bird Source in 1999. He was the Collections Management Leader/Audio Engineer at the Macaulay Library 12 years where he edited and engineered sounds for Merlin, Songs of the Warblers of North America, Audubon Society Voices of Hawaii’s Birds, and more. He’s been guide for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, written finch species accounts for Birds of the World, and published papers about the Red Crossbill vocal complex. He’s currently working on Finches of North America with Lillian Stokes.

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