Spring Bird Migration, Hagerman – AT

Second Saturday events at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge are LIVE and via Zoom.
TRAM tours are running again!

Spring Bird Migration, with Dr. Wayne Meyer

Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge, like many others, was established to provide a stop-over habitat for migratory birds. Certainly, many other species benefit from the refuge and at other times of the year, but migrating birds are the focus of much of the refuge’s work. So, it would be useful to understand what migration is, why it occurs and how birds do it. This month’s program will discuss all of these topics, and at just the right time of year, when birds are beginning to head north for the spring again.

Dr. Wayne Meyer is an Associate Professor of the Biology department at Austin College, where he has been teaching for 28 years. He started birding at 13 in Connecticut. In 1993 he finally achieved his life’s dream of being paid to look at birds when he joined the faculty of Austin College. He has birded both coasts of the U.S. extensively and now has spent a quarter-century birding in Texas and Oklahoma. Meyer is also a sought-after speaker for Master Naturalist groups and a frequent speaker at the Friends of Hagerman NWR Second Saturday programs.

Coordinator:  Friends of Hagerman

Link to register for Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMofuyoqzMqHNM11sqPq6n3RLiHchcUgMlA