Join us at 6:30 PM for our speaker Matthew Young , President and Founder of the Finch Research Network.
Birders are often delighted to observe winter finches during the winter, and the Winter Finch Forecast is one of the most highly anticipated birding/ornithological reports of the year. I’ll plan to talk about finch irruptions, the lanching of the Finch Research Network, and where we plan to go in the future with the forecast and research we’ll be doing at FiRN. Matthew Young, President and Founder of the Finch Research Network, will talk about these interesting and beautiful winter finches and what led to the formation of the Finch Research Network (FiRN), and what FiRN plans to accomplish into the future.
Over the last ~25 years Matt has worked in the social work field with special needs adolescents for more than 10 years (currently as care manager supervisor), and worked at the Cornell Lab across 15+ years where I did extensive field work for the Lab’s Cerulean and Golden-winged Warblers atlas projects, and was project lead on the Lab’s first Finch Irruptive Bird Survey for Bird Source in 1999. Was the Collections Management Leader/Audio Engineer at the Macaulay Library ~12 years where he edited sounds for several Merlin packs around the world in addition to being the lead audio engineer on guides, the Songs of the Warblers of North America, Audubon Society Voices of Hawaii’s Birds, and the Cornell Lab’s Guides to Bird Sounds, the North America Master and Essential Sets. Matt has been a tour guide leader for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, written finch species accounts for breeding bird atlases and Birds of the World, and has published several papers about the Red Crossbill vocal complex and the Spiranthes orchid complex. He is currently working on Finches of North America with Lillian Stokes and am also the President and Founder of the Finch Research Network (FiRN) and Native Orchid Conservation Network (NOCN), and owner of Mindful Nature Expeditions.
Zoom link
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0of-CvrjkrG9zUaplckZWcyNwOXJhQ2t-5
