Register now for DFO Presents: Research, Education & Conservation in Action Mon. Apr 28 at 7 pm

[David Suddjian]

Research, Education & Conservation in Action: 2024 DFO Grantees Report

Register now for DFO's monthly program this coming Monday April 28 at 7 pm.

The Zoom program will present “Research, Education & Conservation in Action,” a kind of show-and-tell session with recipients of 2024's grants from the Denver Field Ornithologists’ Research, Education and Conservation Fund. Three of the six 2024 grantees will present updates on their research and conservation work. In addition, this evening program will include a bonus presentation by Emily Braker, vertebrate zoology collections manager at the University of Colorado Boulder Museum of Natural History, featuring images from the school’s extensive ornithology collection.

Two of the grantee presenters for the April 28 meeting are conducting research on common bird species in Colorado. Holden Fox, now a doctoral student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, will discuss his grant-winning project, “Conservation Genomics of Loggerhead Shrike,” a grassland species of conservation concern. Fox intended to create a map of “range-wide genetic variation” for use in targeted management and conservation strategies for the species.

Another doctoral student, William Churchill Anderson in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will report on his work with House Wrens, titled, “Continued Exploration of a Novel Avian Hybrid Zone.” Anderson's work sought to more precisely map the transition zone between subspecies along the Front Range of the Rockies.

The third grant recipient to report is Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Longmont. On behalf of Greenwood, veterinarian Dr. Alison Hazel, a center volunteer and former avian clinic supervisor, will discuss “Wildlife Rehabilitation: the Big Picture.” 

Read more on p. 11 of the latest issue of The Lark Bunting Quarterly Journal

David Suddjian

Denver Field Ornithologists