[Classifieds] [classifieds] Cape Cod Bird Club Meeting May 10

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From: Cynthia Franklin, cfranklin at massaudubon.org 

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The final Cape Cod Bird Club May meeting for the season will be Monday, May 10 at 7:30 pm at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History , 869 Rte. 6A, in Brewster. Meetings are free and open to the public. Meetings will begin again in September. 

Speaker: Scott Hecker - “The Piping Plover as an Umbrella Species for the Barrier Beach Ecosystem” 

This presentation will describe how piping plover conservation has played a major role in the overall conservation of the barrier beach ecosystem. Over the last twenty years, the state population for piping plovers dramatically increased from 126 pairs to over 550 pairs. As a federally protected species, the increase and spread of piping plovers to more sites for breeding, staging, and wintering has offered further opportunities for conservationists to increase protection for these areas. This presentation will describe what, how, and where the conservation of piping plovers has also protected significant amount of barrier beach habitat, and other species of birds, animals and plants from Massachusetts to its winter quarters in the southeastern U.S. 




Scott Hecker is the Executive Director of the Goldenrod Foundation ( www.goldenrod.org ), whose mission is to conserve and protect coastal habitat and coastal shorebirds in Southeastern Massachusetts. Scott completed an M.S. Degree in Resource Management at Antioch University in April 1987. Once month later, he began his post-graduate employment on Plymouth Beach, as a tern warden for Mass Audubon. Between 1987 and 2002, Scott served as Director of the Coastal Waterbird Program for Mass Audubon, where he developed research, advocacy, and education efforts to protect threatened terns and plovers. From 2003 to 2008, Scott directed the Coastal Bird Conservation Program for the National Audubon Society, where he broadened the reach of Audubon's effective model to protect a larger number of threatened coastal bird species in additional states on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Since 2008, Scott has served as the Executive Director of the Goldenrod Foundation. 

See the website www.massbird.org/ccbc for information on meetings and on guided bird walks scheduled for May, including weekend bird walks at Beech Forest in Provincetown. 




Cynthia Franklin 

For the Cape Cod Bird Club
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