Waterbird Ecology and Movement in the Saline Lakes of the Great Basin

By Larry Jordan on April 26, 2024 in

For our May evening program, Cory Overton will discuss the efforts of the USGS to create a science strategy to monitor and assess the hydrology of saline lakes in the Great Basin and the migratory birds and other wildlife dependent on those habitats. They have marked American Avocet and Wilson’s Phalarope with GPS and MOTUS style radio tags. The twenty terminal lakes and playas to be studied include Mono Lake, Tule Lake, Summer Lake, and Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Cory Overton is a Wildlife Biologist and has worked at the Dixon Field Station of the Western Ecological Research Center for 25 years, specializing in spatial ecology and demographics of migratory birds. During that period, Cory completed a Master’s degree at Oregon State University investigating band-tailed pigeon ecology and a Ph.D. at the University of California – Davis on Ridgway’s Rail. An avowed data geek, his research focuses on applied ecology and enabling adaptive management of public and private lands and effective data delivery.

Shasta Birding Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Waterbird Ecology and Movement in the Saline Lakes of the Great Basin
Time: May 8, 2024 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Waterfowl Ecology in Suisun Marsh and the Pacific Flyway

By Larry Jordan on April 29, 2022 in

Tule Goose

Cory Overton is part of a team of wildlife biologists and geographers at the Dixon Field Station between Sacramento and San Francisco, a unit of the Western Ecological Research Center of the USGS. He has worked on migratory, game, and endangered species using telemetry methods from British Columbia to California and Nevada since 2000.
For the last few years we have partnered with both California and Oregon’s Departments of Fish and Wildlife to attach GPS neck collars to Tule Geese at Summer Lake, Oregon. This is part of our larger waterfowl research program in the Pacific Flyway, the goal of which is to increase our understanding of waterfowl ecology and develop management options to meet habitat requirements and reduce competition for resources such as food water and space among waterfowl species while meeting human needs. Since we had an active, longer term monitoring program in place to compare with, we were able to observe effects to migrating geese in real time which resulted from unprecedented wildfire conditions in 2020. Here is the link to the presentation:

Topic: Waterfowl Ecology in Suisun Marsh and the Pacific Flyway
Time: May 11, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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