Join Andrea Orabona, president of the Red Desert Audubon Society, in the Lander Library’s Carnegie Room on March 23 at 5:30 p.m. for her presentation, “Migration of Wyoming’s Burrowing Owls across North America.” You will learn how biologists trap and track burrowing owls to identify their migration routes and wintering areas using satellite transmitters.
Andrea Orabona previously served as the statewide Nongame Bird Biologist for the Wyoming Game & Fish Department. She collaborates on this project with Dr. Courtney Conway from the USGS/University of Idaho and his research partners from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The burrowing owl is classified as a Species of Greatest Conservation Need in Wyoming, making this full life-cycle conservation project extremely important. Andrea will discuss the need for this work, project objectives and methods, and results of burrowing owl migration thus far.
This post is sponsored by a generous grant from the Fremont County Library Foundation.