Virtual Wings and Wetlands Festival
March 24 – March 26
$20
https://www.wingsandwetlands.com/
Join Us For the 2021 Virtual Wings & Wetlands Festival. Explore birds, wetlands, and conservation messages through presentations by renowned experts, interactive socials, and on-demand web resources.
The 2021 Wings and Wetlands Festival features renowned…[Read more]

The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network – USA Committee has developed a site award. This award is given to a WHSRN Site or Landscape within the United States for outstanding work towards ongoing conservation and management of the site for shorebirds. I encourage you to check out:…[Read more]

Finally got the Motus Towers installed at Cheyenne Bottoms in Central Kansas. Nice video at:

Now just waiting for shorebirds with nanotags

Using cattle to create wallows or shallow depressions with little or no vegetation is actually an unwritten management technique that we have been using for several of years here on the Cheyenne Bottoms Preserve.

Shorebirds prefer to feed in areas in which the vegetation is short and sparse and for some species no vegetation at all. So along…[Read more]

Just entered the last day of the spring International Shorebird Survey data and graphed out the results. Back in 2017 in responses to both grassland nesting bird declines and migratory shorebird declines we implemented a shorebird habitat plan. This included adjustments to our rotational grazing, some increase in haying, the addition of…[Read more]

Monica Iglecia and I are coordinating an exploratory pilot survey.

It took a long time to get to this point but shorebird conservation in Kansas is actually getting noticed. The state chapter of the Nature Conservancy recently developed a webpage about shorebirds. Check it out at: nature.org/kansas

Manomet, working in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, has the opportunity to bring a flyway-scale perspective to the conservation efforts occurring in the Flint Hills. Despite significant gains in conservation holdings in the Flint Hills, questions still remain about the timing of shorebird use and how new management strategies (e.g.…[Read more]

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?t=57&v=654391701963745

I think I need acting classes

The Nature Conservancy is in the process of installing two Motus Wildlife Tracking Towers. Our main objective is to just fill in the void of towers here in the Great Plains. As such we hope to be a valuable addition to those researches out there doing tagging of shorebirds. We are also interested in finding out the turnover rates of those…[Read more]

I have partnered with the Kansas Wetlands Education Center on the development of short shorebird related videos. Trying to put one out every month for the year 2020. We call it Whats You Doing Rob. The first video was on Disking for Shorebirds and the next will be on World Wetlands Day. I am about as far from being a social media person as…[Read more]