This month’s guest speaker will be Erik Johnson, Director of Conservation Science for Audubon Delta.
Erik joined the National Audubon Society in April 2011 and currently serves as the Director of Conservation Science for Audubon Delta, a regional office that includes Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Before coming to Audubon, Erik’s graduate work at Louisiana State University included researching the effects of forest fragmentation on Amazonian bird communities and understanding the effects of fire management on grassland birds in pine savannas of the southeastern U.S. Erik has been active in Louisiana’s birding community for over 20 years and serves as Louisiana’s Christmas Bird Count regional editor, a member of Louisiana’s Bird Records Committee, and Director of the Louisiana Bird Observatory. Erik lives in Sunset, Louisiana.
Erik will Present: A Renewed Hope for the Swamp Candle
The Prothonotary Warbler is an iconic egg-yolk-yellow songbird that breeds in Louisiana’s swamps and bottomland forests, and it is estimated that the Atchafalaya Basin supports about 5% of the global nesting population of this species. Like many Neotropical migratory birds, however, Prothonotary Warblers are disappearing from our forests. This presentation will provide a unique look into the life history of bird, as well as Audubon’s full-life cycle research and conservation efforts aimed at recovering Prothonotary Warbler populations.
Join us for an evening of learning and engagement on the most current issues of our local waterways.
Pack and Paddle Outpost
101 Lucien St. Lafayette, LA
*Monthly Meetings held on the3rd Monday of every month.
