Help FiRN Continue Evening Grosbeak Work Across North America
With a 92% decline since 1970, Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus) was cited as the steepest declining landbird in the continental United States and Canada in the Partners in Flight 2016 Landbird Conservation Plan. FiRN is looking to continue to band and tag birds across the United States to better understand why the Evening Grosbeak is declining so dramatically. Last year, your monies helped us venture west for the first time to tag different call types/subspecies of Evening Grosbeaks in Utah! There are different populations and where trying to figure out how they interact. During this year’s Giving Season, we are asking you to help support our winter and spring trips with our partners on the Road to Recovery for the Evening Grosbeak.
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This is a collaborative project with Powdermill Avian Reserve, Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Over the last three winters 2022-2024 members of our team ventured into the field in at Sax Zim Bog Minnesota, Alleghany National Forest Pennsylvania, state forests of central New York and the Adirondacks of northern New York, northern Maine Woods, and Altonah, Utah to study Evening Grosbeaks. Last year your money helped us go out west for the first time! Our trip to Utah helped us document a summertime breeding range extension of Type 1 Evening Grosbeak to near Salt Lake, Utah!
In the last three winters we’ve now color-banding 335 birds and deploying 66 satellite tags and 85 nanotags. We also have given more than 30 presentations and written numerous blog posts about the project. From the 66 satellite tags we’ve been able to track birds moving from wintering areas to breeding areas in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. FiRN has also helped fund grosbeak student research as part of the project. All this work is part of the Road to Recovery for the Evening Grosbeak, and they need your continued support today.
Thank you so much for your love of finches and we look forward to your support as we continue to grow the Finch Research Network (FiRN)!
With Gratitude, Matthew A. Young
Founder & Board President Finch Research Network