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Dr. Stephen W. Kress
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Stephen W. Kress is Vice President for Bird Conservation for the National Audubon
Society and Manager of the Society's Maine Coast
Seabird Sanctuaries. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He is also the author
of Chapter 2 of the Lab's Home
Study Course in Bird Biology, 2nd Edition.
As director of Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program, Steve advises and
manages the development of techniques for re-establishing various Maine
seabird colonies, such as Atlantic Puffins, Leach's Storm-Petrel, and
Arctic, Common, and Roseate Terns. In the Pacific region, he has
studied the role of vocalizations in attracting endangered Dark-rumped
Petrels to artificial burrows in the Galápagos Islands, and
Short-tailed Albatross to decoys on Midway Island. He is also the
author of many popular birding books, including The
Audubon Guide to Attracting Birds, The National Audubon Society's
Birder's Handbook, The Bird Garden, Project Puffin: How We Brought
Puffins Back to Egg Rock, Saving Birds, Golden Guide to Bird Life,
and others. He also has authored numerous scientific papers on seabird
biology and conservation.
During most of the year Steve lives on 33 acres of woods and meadows
near Ithaca, New York with his wife Elissa Wolfson, where he manages
his land for songbirds. He spends summers on the Maine coast,
continuing his lifelong interest in restoring nesting seabird
colonies.
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George Dillmann
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George is in charge of day-to-day course operations such as
processing enrollments and other requests, assembling materials for
lectures and field trips, planning the overnight field trips and other
special outings, and overseeing web development. George also assists
with course quality by keeping track of comments and suggestions from
previous student surveys. He holds a bachelors degree in fisheries and
wildlife conservation from the University of Missouri as well as
masters' degrees in political science (from Missouri) and in sociology
(from Iowa State). George is also the Events Manager for the Lab of
Ornithology, and as such coordinates rental and other usage of the
Lab’s public spaces.
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Sandy Podulka |
Sandy coordinates the field trips sections of the course. She
chooses field trip leaders and organizes leaders and participants into
various groups. She received a B.S. in Wildlife Biology from Cornell
University and an M.S. in Zoology (Animal Behavior) from the University
of Maryland, where she studied the function of song repertoires in Song
Sparrows. Sandy is also one of the editors of the Lab's Home Study Course in Bird
Biology, 2nd Edition.
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SFO FIELD TRIP LEADERS
Spring Field Ornithology's field trip leaders vary from year to year, but each and every one of them plays an important role in the success of the course's field trips section. They are chosen because they are among the most knowledgeable, experienced birders in the Cayuga Lake Basin. Here are a few names of present and former SFO field trip leaders:
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Mike Andersen
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Michael Andersen, 20, is a junior in Cornell University's Department of
Natural Resources. He started watching birds on Cape Cod,
Massachusetts at the age of twelve. His passion and excitement for
birding is as varied as the birds themselves. He has always found
enjoyment in photography, traveling, and studies of bird
identification. More recent endeavors have seen him dabbling in
butterfly and dragonfly watching. As always, Michael loves to share his
enthusiasm for birds and nature with others and is excited to come back
for his second season as a SFO field trip leader.
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Bill Baker
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Bill Baker is an enthusiastic Cayuga Lake
Basin birder. He has taken SFO in the past, and shortly after
obtaining course alumni status, was asked to join the staff. Nine out
of ten students agree - Bill is a top-notch staff member!
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Jaiganesh
Balakrishnan
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Jai is an avid birder and spends most of his spare time watching
birds. In the Summer of 2001, he spent a few weeks on an island off the
coast of Maine, working with Steve Kress as a research intern for the
Seabird Restoration Program with the National Audubon
Society. In the year 2001 he was the winner of the McIlroy (birding competition)
Award, held in Ithaca, NY.
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Gladys Birdsall
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Gladys was introduced to birding while in college. She loved what
she was seeing, and found it was a wonderful way to relax. Gladys has
taken three of the Lab's courses, and shortly after taking Spring
Field Ornithology, she joined the Cayuga Bird Club. She enjoys participating in the
local bird counts, such as the Christmas Bird Count; the Ithaca June Count; and
the Great
Backyard Bird Count. Gladys says "I love traveling and birding in
new areas and habitats. Learning birds by sight and sound really opens
up the world in ways I hadn't realized before I avidly birded. And,
there is so much other wildlife that you encounter while birding."
Gladys is currently participating in the second Breeding
Bird Atlas, a project of the Federation of NYS Bird Clubs and the NYS DEC. By day she
works at Cornell's Dairy Cattle Research Facility. She enjoys leading
trips, because she knows how thrilling it can be to see a new birds for
the first time.
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Mark Chao
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Mark Chao has been one of Ithaca's more active birders since moving
here in 2001. Though he birds everywhere, Mark has a special fondness
for Sapsucker Woods, where he has seen more than 170
species. Past SFO participants have widely noted Mark's enthusiasm and
his uncanny knack for remembering people's names. Mark's profession is
promoting energy efficiency; he serves as the senior staffer for the Institute for Market
Transformation, a nonprofit environmental organization that he
helped to found in 1996. He and his wife Miyoko Chu (Science Editor at
the Lab of Ornithology) have two young children.
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Benjamin Clock
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Ben is employed with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library Visual Media Collections as a Video Archivist, editing and archiving video footage of birds. He began birding at the age of twelve, in the foothills of the Berkshires in northwestern Connecticut. He is an active birder in the Cayuga Lake Basin.
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Laura Erickson
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Laura Erickson is the Science Editor at the Lab. She’s been an avid birder since she used two field guides and a recording to identify her first Black-capped Chickadee on March 2nd, 1975. She’s birded over much of the United States and also in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago, but spring migration is still her favorite birding experience of each year. She writes regularly for Birder’s World and is author of 101 Ways to Help Birds, For the Birds: An Uncommon Guide, and Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids. She once was a winner in the American Ornithologists' Union's bird-calling contest in the repertoire category for her owl calls.
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Bob Fogg
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Bob Fogg is a local birder who volunteered his time in order to lead
some field trips for the 2002 Spring Field Ornithology Course.
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Jeff Gerbracht
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Jeff originally hails from northern Indiana where he became
interested in
birds and birding at the age of 9. He received a B.S. in Wildlife
Management
from Purdue University and has spent most of his time since working in
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computer industry and watching birds. In early 2001, he and his family
moved
from the Texas heat to Ithaca where he is a programmer with the Information Science group at the Lab of Ornithology.
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Dan Graybeal
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Dan is a Research Climatologist at Cornell's
Northeast Regional Climate Center with an avocation in birding that
spans nearly 15 years. As an undergraduate he assisted a professor in
field study of vireos and has participated in Citizen
Science programs of the Cornell
Laboratory of Ornithology. He has led several bird walks in various
venues. From having grown up in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, his favorite group
of birds is the wood warblers.
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John Greenly
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Dr. John Greenly is a physicist and musician at Cornell University.
He has loved birding for more than 30 years, across North America, in
Europe, Central America and Asia. He has been leading SFO field trips
for more than 10 years, and looks forward to every new SFO year as a
wonderful springtime ritual, seeing again the tremendous rivers of
birds flowing back into our part of the world for another breeding
season. He also treasures the pleasure of helping to introduce new
people to the amazing life of birds.
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Scott Haber
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Scott Haber is a student at Cornell University, majoring in Natural
Resources with a concentration in Applied Ecology, and is also Vice President of the
Cornell Student Birding Club. He has been an avid
birder for almost 10 years, and has particularly enjoyed leading field
trips locally for both SFO and the Cayuga Bird Club, as well as participating in
Ithaca birding traditions such at the David Cup. Scott also volunteers as a curatorial
associate at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates, which has led to a
broad interest in birds of the new world tropics. He has spent a good
deal of time birding all over the United States, as well as in
Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and England.
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Stefan Hames
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Stefan Hames is a Research Associate in the Conservation Science department at the Lab of Ornithology, where he studies the
effects of habitat loss and fragmentation, as well as the effects of
pollution, on forest birds. Stefan got his start in ornithology as a
volunteer hawk counter, trapper, and bander at the Golden Gate Raptor
Observatory for six migration seasons and studied forest-nesting
hawks in Tompkins County as a part of his doctoral dissertation. He is
interested in ALL birds, but really likes hawks.
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Meena Haribal
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Meena, a former officer for the Cayuga Bird Club, is a Research Associate within
the Bird Population Studies group at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Meena is an excellent
birder. In addition to her birding expertise, she also enjoys sharing
her knowledge about other subjects (such as butterflies and astronomy)
with the Spring Field Ornithology field trip participants.
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Wes Hochachka
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Wes is a Research Associate and Data Analyst with the Lab's Bird Population Studies program. He has co-authored
many research articles that were featured in several
scientific publications. Despite his busy writing schedule, he
sometimes has time to lead a trip or two for SFO.
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Pete Hosner
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Pete is a senior undergraduate in the Natural
Resources department at Cornell. He has been birding since he was
in middle school, and 2003 is his second year as a SFO trip leader.
Pete has been involved with several ornithology projects as an
undergrad, including Tree Swallow biology in Ithaca with Dr. David
Winkler, and Snow Goose habitat degradation in the Canadian Arctic. His
academic interests include neotropical ornithology, conservation, and
movements of seabirds. Pete is planning to pursue a Ph.D and become a
professor.
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Steve Kress
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In addition to leading field trips, Steve is also the Course
Instructor for Spring Field Ornithology. To read more about him, just
click HERE.
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Lynn Leopold
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Lynn has been birding since her early 30s—some 30 years, though she
says that she often still feels like a beginner around the likes of the
Cornell "Sapsuckers" birding
team! She says "It's fun going out with new-to-birding folks, because
it helps me remember the excitement I felt when first begin spotting
and identifying species on my own. That first loon or merganser or
Ferruginous Hawk was a great experience. Birding keeps me alert to
what's happening around me. It's shocking to see how poorly connected
most people are to their natural world—how much they miss. As long as
my eyesight and hearing are still pretty sharp, I'll always be happy to
lead some field trips for SFO!"
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Jay McGowan
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Jay McGowan has been an active birder in our area for some time. He
is a past recipient of the Lillian Stoner Award (which he won in 2004, in
honor of his leadership among bird enthusiasts and his accomplishments
as a birder and digiscoping pioneer) and along with his father Kevin,
was previously a member of the Digiscoping Hawks, a fledgling World Series of
Birding team that came in 7th place in 2006 (their first year) for
digitally photographing the highest number of species (124 in 24 hours)
through a spotting scope. For 2007, Jay opted to join the Lab's student
birding team, The
Redheads.
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Kevin McGowan
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Kevin is a co-editor of the 2nd New York State Breeding Bird Atlas,
based at the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology. He was a creator of the Lab's All About Birds
web site, and the author of the Online Bird
Guide. You can read all about his ornithological research by
visiting his web site at: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows. Kevin has been
interested in birding since he was a child. He has traveled throughout
North America, as well as to Europe, Central America, South America,
and Africa, watching and studying birds. He has led birding field trips
for groups of all skill levels in Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Florida,
Hawaii, Costa Rica, and Peru. He is a past president of the Cayuga Bird Club, a past
president and former webmaster for the New York State
Ornithological Association, and a former member of the New
York State Avian Records Committee (NYSARC). Kevin was formerly a
member of the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology's birding team, The
Sapsuckers, but is now a member of the Digiscoping Hawks, who
compete in the World Series of Birding in New Jersey each
May.
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Bob McGuire
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Bob McGuire is an avid birder and longtime SFO student. After years
of Bob participating in the SFO field trips as an advanced-level
birder, we finally persuaded him to lead a few field trips in
2005.
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Harold Mills
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Harold was formerly a computer programmer in the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Since joining the Lab
Staff in 1994, he developed a strong interest in birds, both
recreational and scientific. He enjoys sharing this interest with
others, and especially beginning birders.
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Ann Mitchell
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Ann signed up for the Lab's Spring Field Ornithology course in 1998
and immediately became hooked on birds. After taking the SFO field trip
sections for a couple years, she joined the Cayuga Bird Club where she is an active member. Ann
has been a volunteer for Project Puffin and the Breeding
Bird Atlas. She starts each year by participating in the Christmas Bird
Count. Most weekends she can be found somewhere around the Cayuga Lake
Basin with her binoculars in hand. Each fall, time permitting, Ann
enjoys visiting the Cape May, NJ area.
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Jason Mobley
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Jason has worked in the natural history museum at the University of Kansas,
studied the behavior of loons in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and worked with a
diversity of bird species in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil.
He came to the Lab of Ornithology
from the University
of California, Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. studying the
evolutionary history of tyrant flycatchers. Jason was previously
employed with the Lab as a Home
Study Course Instructor and Research Associate. He also served as
Interim Director for the Lab's Education Program. In addition, he leads field
trips for SFO. His expertise and enthusiasm for sharing knowledge about
birds make him a perfect fit as a field trip leader for any student
wanting to know more about birds.
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Mike Morgan
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Mike is a Wildlife Ecologist who is the leader for Audubon's
grassland bird project. He has an office at the Lab of Ornithology. Mike earned his Bachelor's
degree in Fisheries and Wildlife from Utah State University in Logan,
UT, and then attended SUNY Brockport while earning his Master's
degree.
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Tom Nix
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Tom has led several
birding trips for Spring Field Ornithology over the past few
years.
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Dave Nutter
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In a Lorenzian ethology experiment gone awry, Dave Nutter imprinted
on birds as a child. For years he has led trips for this course as part
of his ongoing rehabilitation into human society. Growing up in
suburban Maryland, he attributed his sanity to the amount of time spent
in Rock Creek
Park a few blocks from home. Dave began birding by taking a course
for kids (that was very similar to Spring Field Ornithology) through
the Smithsonian Associates in Washington, DC. This was
back when Peterson Guides had black-and-white plates
interspersed among text. The course was run by John Trott, an educator
who believed that kids learn best from their peers. Dave was next a
student and teacher at the George Whittel Field Ecology Center of the
Audubon
Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States under one of
Trott's disciples, Holly Wagner, with whom he later helped teach the
same Smithsonian Associates course. For Dave, this course is not simply
a way to learn about birds, it is a glimpse at the incredible variety
of life with which we share this planet. Indeed, finding the birds
again every spring is reassurance that we do still share the
planet.
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Bill Ostrander
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Bill Ostrander is vice-president of the Chemung
Valley Audubon Society, the Finger Lakes Region editor for The Kingbird (journal of the Federation of New York
State Bird Clubs), and a FNYSBC board member. Bill received a B.S.
in Wildlife Science from Cornell University, worked for 14 years as a
naturalist at Tanglewood Community Nature Center in Elmira, and
is currently a GIS Technician for Weiler Mapping,
Inc. Bill has 37 years of birding experience, primarily in the
Finger Lakes Region.
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Mike Pitzrick
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Mike is a notable local birder who works at the Lab of Ornithology. He has led several field trips
for Spring Field Ornithology.
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Sandy Podulka
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In addition to being a field trip leader, Sandy is also a Spring
Field Ornithology course (and Home Study Course in Bird Biology) staff member -
to read more about her, just click HERE.
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Alan Poole
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Alan is a Research Associate at the Lab of Ornithology, where he edits the Birds of North America
(BNA), an 18 volume series documenting the life histories of
our continent's breeding birds. Before BNA, Alan worked on Atlantic
coastal birds, particularly terns and Ospreys, and wrote a life history
of Ospreys for Cambridge University Press. His interests lie in
life history aspects of birds, and he likes to encourage students to
think about where a particular species has been, where it might be
going to, as well as what it eats, where it nests, and how it raises
its young. Alan signed on as a Field Trip Leader for SFO in 2004.
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Mike Powers
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Mike works in the Conservation
Science department at the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology on projects using acoustic monitoring, including
searching for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and
studying flight calls given by nocturnal migrants. He has enjoyed
studying birds in many different areas and habitats over the years, but
his current passion is birding closer to home with his daughter, Reina
(who, like all three-year olds, is a budding naturalist).
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Bard Prentiss
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Bard's professional career was in visual arts education, however he
has watched, drawn, studied and otherwise enjoyed the natural world as
long as he can remember. As an active member (and club president for 2
terms) of the Cayuga Bird
Club since 1991, Bard has regularly lead club field trips,
initiated the construction and installation of the Osprey nest platform
at Dryden Lake, compiled and presented the "Cayuga Birdline" for 2-3
years, and has also coordinated the Dryden portion of the CBC Christmas bird
counts and June bird counts. During the spring in 1998 and 1999, he
scouted portions of New Jersey for the (Cornell) "Sapsuckers" birding team. Bard is also a Regional
Coordinator for Region 3 of the 2000 NYS
Breeding Bird Atlas Project, and serves on the Atlas Steering
Committee, chairing its Illustration sub-committee.
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Ron Rohrbaugh
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Ron is the Director of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Research Project at the Lab of Ornithology. Ron holds B.S. and
M.S. degrees in Wildlife Biology from Penn State University, and much
of his research has been focused on the breeding biology of American
Kestrels, grassland ecology, and using citizen science to study and
monitor bird populations. In addition, Ron is also one of the main
editors of the Lab's Home Study
Course in Bird Biology. In his "spare time" he sometimes leads
field trips for Spring Field Ornithology.
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Ken Rosenberg
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Ken is the Director of Conservation Science at the Lab of Ornithology, where he oversees several Citizen
Science projects focused on bird conservation issues, as well as
the search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Ken is an active leader in
Partners in Flight and other national and international
bird-conservation initiatives. In addition to being an excellent field
trip leader (and a member of the Cornell Lab's famous SAPSUCKERS birding team), Ken has also been a
longtime guest speaker for Spring Field Ornithology's annual songbird
conservation lecture.
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Dave Russell
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Dave has been birdwatching for approx. 23 years. During that time he
has traveled to every county of New York State looking at birds, and
boasts a New York list of over 300 species. Currently he is the
Statistician for the Chemung Valley Audubon Society, and keeps records
of all bird sightings in the Chemung Valley, as well as organizes all
field trips, bird counts, and other special events. Dave also maintains
the club's web site and listserv. In his "spare" time, he is also a
Region 3 Co-Coordinator of the current NY Breeding
Bird Atlas Project. Duties include assigning blocks to volunteers,
compiling data, editing reports, and recruiting more volunteers.
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Marty Schlabach
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Marty Schlabach isn't "just" a former Director of the Cayuga Bird Club, nor is
he "just" a 2007 student of Spring Field Ornithology lectures or "just"
a great lecturer/librarian at Cornell University, he's also a great SFO field
trip leader!
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Laura Stenzler
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Laura's not only the proud owner of a yard that is a fantastic
habitat for Barred Owls, she is also a great field trip leader for
Spring Field Ornithology. To find out more about Laura, visit her Evoluntionary Biology
Program info page.
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Brian Sullivan
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Brian Sullivan was formerly the project leader for eBird, an online
database developed by the Lab of
Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. eBird is very popular
for keeping track of bird sightings, and SFO now utilizes the database
to archive all of the field trip checklists submitted by each year's
field trip leaders. Brian encourages EVERYONE to use eBird, so that your
sightings also help us to keep track of all the birds!
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Ben Taft
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An avid birder in the Cayuga Lake Basin area for some time now, Ben Taft
has also led field trips for Spring Field Ornithology on
occasion.
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Chris
Tessaglia-Hymes
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Chris is a favorite among field trip leaders and has been leading
trips for some time. He took some time off in 2002 in order to spend
some time with his daughter Aleta and his wife (The Lab's Graphic
Designer) Diane, but we are hoping he will return to lead additional
trips in future years. Chris also works at the Lab of Ornithology, in the Bioacoustics Research Program.
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Bruce Tracey
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Bruce has been an SFO field trip leader since 1994. Although his
professional interests are not affiliated with ornithology—he’s an
associate professor of management at Cornell’s Hotel
School—he spends a great deal of time running around the Cayuga Lake
Basin and elsewhere chasing whatever is coming through.
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Mark Witmer
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Mark is one of SFO's newer field trip leaders. A Zoology major, he
received his Bachelor's Degree from Colorado State University, his Master's Degree from
Texas A & M, and
his Ph. D. from Cornell University. He has taught biology, and much
of this research has dealt with studying the nutritional ecology of
fruit-eating birds (basically, understanding why birds, especially
Cedar Waxwings, eat particular fruits). Mark enjoys watching birds in
his spare time - when he is not busy fishing, maple sugaring, golfing,
or gardening!
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Rachel Vallender
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Rachel works in the Evolutionary Biology Program at the Lab of Ornithology where she uses genetic tools to
examine conservation problems facing birds. Her primary research
interests lie in the fields on behavioural ecology and conservation
genetics. She is currently conducting research on the genetics of avian
hybridization, and has a particular interest in Golden-winged and
Blue-winged Warblers. She has taught bird capture and banding workshops
for many years, and has instructed an undergraduate field course
entitled "Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Biology of
Birds". She has been a keen birder since her early undergraduate
days in Canada and has welcomed the opportunity to bird the Cayuga Lake
Basin in recent years.
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Matt Young
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Matt is an avid birder in the Central New York area who has led
several field trips for Spring Field Ornithology since 1998. He has a
Master's Degree in Ornithology, and has taught his own field
ornithology class (as well as other nature classes) at Lime Hollow Center
for Environment & Culture where is also acting president of
their bird club. Matt won back to back David Cups (Cayuga Lake
Basin Birding competition) and nominated Summerhill, Bear Swamp,
and Great Swamp Conservancy (which was his masters research site) as Audubon
Important Bird Areas. He has also worked with at-risk teens at George Jr.
Republic as a program director in addition to trying to implement
an outdoor education/wilderness therapy program. He is also noted as
the founder of 2 Finger Lakes Land Trust Preserves, 1 Cornell Natural
Area Preserve and is land steward for Dorothy McIlroy Bird Preserve.
Matt is currently employed with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library.
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