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Program Meeting
Passive Sound Monitoring in Sagebrush and Pinyon Juniper Habitats in the Northern Great Basin
Danielle Miles, UNR grad student October 22, 2019 Passive Sound Monitoring in Sagebrush and Pinyon Juniper Habitats in the Northern Great Basin
Danielle Miles, Graduate student at UNR's Biology Department October 22, 2019 Federal land management agencies will clear thousands of acres of pinyon and juniper woodlands (PJ) over the next four or more years in the Great Basin to encourage re-establishment of sagebrush habitats that support wildlife such as the Greater Sage-Grouse. Our featured speaker, Danielle Miles, a graduate Student at UNR’s Biology Department is part of a large study to investigate the effects of PJ removal on a variety of insect, reptile, mammal and bird species by studying sets of fixed transects, spanning a gradient from sagebrush steppe to PJ woodland. Danielle wants to know whether passive recording of bird sounds can be used to assess bird diversity. She has collected three years of recorded bird sound files across 15 transects along the sagebrush to PJ woodland-habitat gradient in 5 regions of northern Nevada. Danielle is investigating whether the sound indexes can detect differences in bird species richness and diversity at the species and family levels across time and habitat gradients, and whether the indexes can be used to assess whether bird species that depend upon sagebrush habitat for nesting, such as the Sage Thrasher and Sagebrush Sparrow, were affected by PJ woodland removal. She will share with us the here preliminary analysis to date Program Meetings
Every Fourth Tuesday 6:30pm Social, 7:00-8:30 pm Meeting January-May and August-October Location: Moana Nursery Landscape and Design 1190 W Moana Ln Reno, NV 89509 View our Program Meeting page or calendar for details. Birds and Books
Reading & Discussion Group Birds & Books is now being held at
Swill Coffee and Wine 3366 Lakeside Court, Reno Third Thursday, 5:30-7:00 p.m. 
October 17, 2019
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson See description of book on Birds & Books page: https://www.nevadaaudubon.org/birds--books.html |
LAS FIELD TRIPS
Let's go birding together!
Empire Ranch, Carson county
When: Friday October, 25, 2019, 8 - ~11a.m. Where: Meet the parking lot off of Morgan MIll Rd in Carson City. Map: https://goo.gl/maps/FNKkrC667gv ebird hotspot: http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L4151764. Photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHskYMNoo6 Activity Level: 4-5mi level, easy Leader: Jeff Bleam, email: jcbleam@gmail.com All field trip photos courtesy of Jeff Bleam unless otherwise noted. Current photos top to bottom: Western Wood-pewee, Osprey, Clark's Grebe
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LAS is the organization it is today because of ALL our volunteers for all the years! THANK YOU! |
A BIG THANKS TO VORTEX OPTICS
Lahontan Audubon Society owes a huge thank you to Vortex Optics, who each year, for the last 5-plus years,
have repaired a box full of well-used (some damaged) LAS binoculars used by the 500 or so elementary school children who attended the LAS field trips at Washoe Lake State Park. Vortex has never charged LAS a penny for this terrific service and has even paid return shipping back to us.
We encourage anyone who may be looking for binoculars to check out Vortex Optics.
They have a great variety of binoculars in a wide price range and provide amazing service.
Thanks so much, Vortex.
have repaired a box full of well-used (some damaged) LAS binoculars used by the 500 or so elementary school children who attended the LAS field trips at Washoe Lake State Park. Vortex has never charged LAS a penny for this terrific service and has even paid return shipping back to us.
We encourage anyone who may be looking for binoculars to check out Vortex Optics.
They have a great variety of binoculars in a wide price range and provide amazing service.
Thanks so much, Vortex.
