VIRTUAL ONLY! Indoor Meeting – Where Are the Birds, and How Do We Protect Them: Results From the Connecticut Bird Atlas – Dr. Chris Elphick

Update 3/12/26: Due to modifications requested by the presenter, this meeting has been moved to a VIRTUAL ONLY format. Please use the Zoom link sent in the email reminder to login to the meeting by 7:00 pm. All in-person activities at the Whitney Center this evening are cancelled.

This talk will provide an overview of the results of the Connecticut Bird Atlas, a preview of the forthcoming Birds of Connecticut web site, and a discussion of the conservation implications of the project.

Chris Elphick is a professor of conservation biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. His research centers around describing, understanding, and mitigating biodiversity loss. He has been studying birds in Connecticut since 1998, and his lab group has conducted research on birds in tidal marsh, forest fragments, farmland, and montane shrublands. His research has been published in journals such as Conservation Biology, Ornithological Applications, Ornithology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA, and Science. Book length projects include the Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada, and the Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Rice Fields: A Global Review. He is also one of the lead investigators for the Connecticut Bird Atlas.