Presentation: Monitoring Maine’s Great Blue Herons Across State and International Borders

Date and Location: Thursday, April 5, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm at the Bangor Public Library
In Spring 2016, five Great Blue Herons in Maine were outfitted with lightweight GPS tracking devices and released to allow researchers to follow their movements during nesting, migration, and wintering. Two of the herons migrated to Florida, one to the Bahamas, one to Cuba, and one flew all the way to Haiti! Hear about herons and the project from Danielle D’Auria, a wildlife biologist for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and project leader for the Heron Observation Network of Maine (HERON), a citizen-science initiative that has involved hundreds of volunteers and school students over the past nine years. For more information, contact Nancy Jacobson.