Events and Monthly Meetings
Monthly Meeting
About Monthly Meetings
Each month from September through May, South Shore Audubon Society presents a nature-themed program. All are invited to attend; and there is absolutely no charge.
DATE: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - TO BE HELD ONLINE
TIME: 7:30 P.M.
Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld--qpzMjHdeToH0o8d7_CGLZ21PszezE
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Speaker(s): Rob Longiaru
Topic: New York Black Skimmer Populations
Rob Longiaru is a Conservation Biologist with the Town of Hempstead Department of Conservation and Waterways. Rob will present his research toward creating an annual cycle understanding of New York’s Black Skimmer populations.
His talk highlights the largest and one of the few remaining Black Skimmer colonies in New York. The Nickerson shorebird site at Lido Beach attracts 75% of the skimmers that breed on Long Island. The same individuals faithfully return each year to rear their chicks here. Although they nest on the ocean beach, the adults feed their chicks fish that they catch and bring back from the bay waters.
Rob’s modern research tools include groundbreaking GPS telemetry. It not only monitors skimmers 24/7 while they’re nesting in New York in the summer. GPS telemetry also monitors their movements when they’re not here throughout the rest of the year, as these birds make migratory stopovers to forage along the entire Atlantic Flyway, and they will overwinter as far away as Georgia, Florida, even Cuba and beyond.
Open to the public. Free of charge.