Climate and Conservation: Spring Bird Migration in the Great Lakes

Join Great Lakes Now and Interlochen Public Radio for a multimedia celebration of Spring Migration across the Great Lakes region. We’ll check out the Points North and The Boardman Review’s “Birds of Paradise” short documentary, and then talk with a panel of aviary experts about how to learn, enjoy and protect a variety of our feathered friends moving through the Great Lakes during this period of seasonal migration.

Featured guests include:

• Alli Smith, project coordinator with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Merlin Bird ID App
• Robyn Bailey, project leader for NestWatch, the Cornell Lab’s citizen science project focused on nesting birds
• Lester Graham of the Environment Report at Michigan Public. Lester recently co-produced “The Bird Connection,” an audio documentary about waterbirds in the Great Lakes region and how they have been hurt by disease, pollution, and habitat loss
• Kim Kaufman, director of Black Swamp Bird Observatory