General Meeting and Program: How to Count 4 Million Birds

North America hosts the largest raptor migration in the world each fall in Veracruz, Mexico. But it’s a lot more than just the birds of prey; there’s millions of migrating songbirds and storks and pelicans and anhinga… and clouds of dragonflies and colorful butterflies. It’s also a compelling story of the biologists who grew up in the small rural communities, and the non-profit that runs the counts, the education programs, forges conservation partnerships with local land owners, and hosts several MOTUS towers. Steve worked there for a season and so will bring you the story and explain how to count millions of migrating raptors.

Steve grew up birding, as a young kid in the UK, and has been keen on wildlife and conservation ever since. He worked in many different wildlife positions around the world in both paid and volunteer capacity, and now splits his time between getting paid to work with endangered birds in Southern Nevada in the summer and leading birds tours for part of the winter. In between, he bases himself in eastern Washington, close to the Idaho State border. Prior to that he lived in Bend, Oregon.

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