February 19 Webinar with Matthew Young: The Evening Grosbeak Road to Recovery Project and the Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada

Please join the BBC on the evening of Thursday, February 17 from 7PM to 8:30PM for a member only webinar with Matthew Young from the Finch Research Network (FiRN). Matthew will talk about both The Evening Grosbeak Road to Recovery Project and The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada. (NOTE CORRECTED DATE.)

From backyards to wilderness peaks, finches are some of the most exciting, mysterious, and popular group of songbirds. In The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada Lillian Stokes, best-selling author of 35 Stokes guides, and finch expert Matthew Young introduce you to the 43 finches of the United States and Canada from feeder-favorite goldfinches to Red Crossbill tribes, to least known mountain-top Black Rosy-Finches to endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers.

The webinar will also focus on the Evening Grosbeak Road to Recovery Project. 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.

About the Speaker

Matthew Young is a co-lead on the Evening Grosbeak Road to Recovery Project in addition to being the Founder and Board President of the Finch Research Network. He worked in the field of social work with special needs populations at the William George Agency for 12+ years and is currently a Wild Bird Products Specialist and Conservation Coordinator for Aspen Song Wild Bird Food. Additionally, Matthew worked at the Cornell Lab across 15 years where he focused on Golden-winged Warblers, Voices of Hawaii’s Birds, Merlin Bird ID, and was project lead on Lab’s first Irruptive Finch Survey in 1999.

Co-author of Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada, Matthew is widely known as a preeminent authority on finches of North America that has written finch species accounts for breeding bird atlases, Birds of the World accounts, and published several papers on finches and the Red Crossbill vocal complex.

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