26-S101 Alberta Birds: Stories from the Front Lines – Geoff Holroyd
$60.00
Please note: Individual sessions of this course will be recorded and available to registered students outside of the actual course time.
Dr. Holroyd will take you along as he recounts his many studies of birds in Alberta, in North America and around the world. Topics include Peregrine Falcon conservation, Burrowing Owl demise, the Mexican Galapagos, Saw-whet Owl migration, the Beaverhill Bird Observatory projects, Least Flycatcher ecology, Winter birds of Edmonton, Swallows as the 21st century canaries in a coal mine, and the Importance of Citizen Science and how you can get involved. You will realize why he is still a teenager living his dream!
Instructor: Dr. Geoff Holroyd
Dr. Geoff Holroyd’s interest in birds developed when he was an active teenage volunteer in 1961 and later as chairman of the Long Point Bird Observatory. He earned his PhD from the University of Toronto for his studies of the diet of swallows. He retired in 2012 after 36 years with the Canadian Wildlife Service where he studied peregrine falcons and burrowing owls and chaired their national recovery teams. He has conducted research in the US, Mexico, Ecuador, Spain, Malawi and South Africa. He is chair of the Beaverhill Bird Observatory. He coauthored the new book Wildlife of the North in August 2023. His latest research project is to track Saw-whet Owls from Beaverhill Bird Observatory to around North America using the MOTUS wildlife tracking system. He co-chairs the Snow Goose Festival every spring.
