Overview: 

Topic: Floral resources for migratory hummingbirds (virtual presentation)
Speaker: David Inouye, University of Maryland (retired)
Date and Time: Tuesday, April 2, 2024  at 6:30 pm (doors open at 6:00 pm for socializing) NOTE the NEW DAY and TIME.
Location-Hybrid: In person at the Church of Transfiguration & virtual attendance via Zoom

Presentation Details

As I write, the people and creatures of our Evergreen World are digging out from four feet of late winter/early spring snow. We have come to realize these heavy wet snowstorms presage greening meadows, a profusion of wildflowers, and the arrival of migrating birds who claim territories, mate, and raise their young before leaving in fall.

Have you considered, however, how the arrival of our summer resident birds is tightly linked to the timing and abundance of food for all their needs while here? It is a question that has concerned may biologists, ecologists and environmental scientists, and one we will learn more about when you attend, either virtually or in person, your Evergreen Audubon April Chapter meeting when David Inouye, retired professor from the University of Maryland and Researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, presents “Floral resources for migratory hummingbirds” on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 6:30 pm at Evergreen Church of the Transfiguration and virtually via Zoom. Please note the new day and time for our Chapter Meetings! Doors open at 6:00 pm, and you will want to arrive early to get yourself a great seat for this presentation, to catch up with your fellow Audubon Chapter members, and to learn about all the great events and opportunities you can participate in with Evergreen Audubon.

David will talk about his research on hummingbirds and wildflowers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, near Crested Butte, where he as been working with wildflowers and pollinators since 1971. He has been collaborating with researchers there on the genetics and vision of Broadtailed Hummingbirds, and on the effects of climate change on their migration and the timing and abundance of flowering by the wildflowers they visit.

This is one chapter meeting you won’t want to miss!

About the Speaker

David Inouye is a retired professor from the University of Maryland, who has spent 53 years doing research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. His long-term research

there includes work on plant demography (following individual plants for as long as 50 years), hummingbirds (helping document the oldest known hummingbird in the wild), and the phenology (timing) and abundance of flowering by about 120 species of wildflowers that he and his collaborators check three times a week for the whole growing season (since 1973). He’s also helping with the most extensive and longest monitoring program for native bees in Colorado. His work was featured in articles in National Geographic last April, and in the Colorado Sun this summer.

Zoom Meeting Details

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Passcode: 030633

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