Northeastern Wisconsin
Audubon Society Annual Banquet
Eagle’s Nest Supper Club, 3261 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
5:30 p.m. Social
6:15 Dinner: Chicken & Tenderloin Tips
6:45 Business & Board Elections
7:15 - 8:00 p.m. Program
Speaker: Kent Hall-“Operation Top State: How Wisconsin has become the leading bluebird producing state in the nation”
Cost: $15
Send registration to:
NEW Audubon Banquet, PO Box 1, Green Bay, WI 54305
Banquet Registration Form .
Door prizes include handcrafted walking sticks and maple syrup, donated by Carl Scholz. Each attender will receive a
Phenology Observation Chart
Dr. Hall will discuss the biology of bluebirds, reasons for bluebird conservation, and management practices which have led to Wisconsin's status as the #1 Eastern Bluebird producing state in the U.S. as measured by artificial nest box production.
Dr. Kent Hall is a retired Professor of Biology at UW-Stevens Point, where he taught in the Biology Department for 30 years. He is also an avid bird watcher with a worldwide bird list of 2,533 species, ABA-Area list of 701 species and 329 species observed in Wisconsin.
In 2002, Dr. Hall began the Aldo Leopold Audubon Society's (ALAS) Eastern Bluebird Trail. Starting with a modest 89 nest boxes which produced 188 bluebirds recorded by a single monitor, the trail became the 2nd largest in Wisconsin last year with 771 nest boxes producing 3,967 bluebirds recorded by 33 monitors. In the 6 year history of the trail it has produced 12,460 songbirds. For its performance, the ALAS trail won the outstanding "Bluebird Conservation Organization of the Year" award for 2007 from the North American Bluebird Society.
Dr. Hall has been on the Board of the Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin for four years. He is currently the Vice-President and Coordinator of Data Collection and Analysis for that organization. Last year he began: Operation Top State, with the goal of raising 30,000 bluebirds from artificial nest boxes by 2011 so that Wisconsin will become the leading bluebird producing state in North America. By traveling 11,000 miles and working with 88 different nest box monitors, Dr. Hall helped to increase bluebird production by 2,500 bluebirds last season. This helped lead to the total production of 28,244 bluebirds, an all-time national record, and recognition of Wisconsin as the leading bluebird producing state, 4 years earlier than anticipated.
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