If birds are your passion, there’s plenty to tune into during CFAES’ virtual Farm Science Review, Sept. 22–24.
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14 Farm Science Review talks on ponds, wildlife
If watching wildlife, managing your land for wildlife, and having and enjoying a healthy pond are your things, here’s what the Gwynne Conservation Area has on tap for you during Farm Science Review, Sept. 22–24.
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Spend a (virtual) day in the woods
Ohio’s 2020 Day in the Woods series—which has gone virtual for now because of the coronavirus shutdown—kicks off on Friday, May 8, with the aptly titled “Keeping Yourself and Your Woodlands Healthy.”
Four, one-hour online sessions will cover spring migrant birds, the benefits of woodlands to your health, and management practices related to things such as tree seedlings, trails, and invasive species.
Viewing the sessions is free. Find full details and the link to watch.
CFAES’ OSU Extension outreach arm is one of the many sponsors of the series.
Blue birds? Happiness
Members of the Greater Mohican Audubon Society lead a guided bird walk from 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, in CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum in Wooster, home to species like the indigo bunting shown here.
Admission is free and open to the public. Find out more. (Photo: Getty Images.)
This bird must be a Buckeye
Birds are “incredibly important in the overall functioning of various ecosystems,” says EnvironmentalScience.org.
On Saturday, June 9, you can see birds functioning within the specific ecosystem of CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum. Members of the Greater Mohican Aududon Society will lead a guided bird walk there from 9-11 a.m. Admission is free. The arboretum is on CFAES’s Wooster campus.
Get details. (Photo: Scarlet (but not much gray) tanager, iStock.).
What you can see on a Day in the Woods
You’re invited to come see, hear and learn about breeding birds at a program in southeast Ohio’s Vinton Furnace State Forest on Friday, June 8. It’s part of the A Day in the Woods series co-sponsored by CFAES’s Ohio State University Extension outreach arm and a number of partners. Hours are 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Registration is $12. Learn more.
Fun fact: The beautiful cerulean warbler, pictured, an Ohio species of concern, is among the birds breeding in the area. (Photo: iStock.)
Cardinal numbers and other measures of the state of birds in Ohio
The new Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio, says co-editor Matt Shumar of CFAES, is “written in a way to appeal to a wide audience with useful information on Ohio’s natural history, the distribution of birds across Ohio and where to go to find them.” Check it out.
New book on Ohio’s breeding birds, co-edited by scientist with CFAES
A highly anticipated new book on breeding birds in Ohio sheds light on the current distribution and changes in the status of the state’s bird populations.
The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio — published by the Pennsylvania State University Press and edited by Paul G. Rodewald, Matthew B. Shumar, Aaron T. Boone, David L. Slager and Jim McCormac — comes 25 years after the state’s first breeding bird atlas and provides a new look at contemporary Ohio bird life and how it has changed in that time. Continue reading New book on Ohio’s breeding birds, co-edited by scientist with CFAES
Jay walk this Saturday
Secrest Arboretum, part of OARDC, CFAES’s research arm in Wooster, will hold a free guided bird walk, ideally featuring blue jays like this one and more, this Saturday, Oct. 10. (Photo by natidu, iStock.)
I went back to Ohio, but my Bryson City ginkgo was gone
See who comes back this spring when OSU’s Secrest Arboretum in Wooster, part of OARDC, holds a free public bird walk April 9. Northward migrating birds, such as tree swallows and eastern phoebes, should be among the arrivals, who may find the place looks different than when they left. A tornado hit the arboretum last September — after many summer birds had gone south — and turned more than 1,000 trees (on about 30 of the arboretum’s 120 acres) into virtual toothpicks.