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Every Yard Counts

Personal Contributions to Bird Conservation

Despite global conservation efforts and successes, many bird species have continued to decline. Join us to learn about how you can make your yards and homes bird-friendly and support migratory birds.

Despite global conservation efforts and successes, many bird species have continued to decline over the past century. These declines received significant attention recently with the published paper in Science, detailing the loss of 3 billion birds in North America, as well as Audubon’s report on the impacts from climate change. Many of the species detailed in these reports are Neotropical migrants and cover vast amounts of land annually. Join us to learn about how you can make your yards and homes bird-friendly and support populations of migratory birds.

This program is in partnership with Green Bexley's Love Your Alley program, and generously funded by the Bexley Community Foundation.

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Speaker Bio
Matthew Shumar is based in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University where he is Program Coordinator of the Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative, a collaboration of non-profit groups, businesses, state and federal government agencies advancing avian conservation in Ohio and the region. Prior to working with OBCI, he was the Project Coordinator and co-editor for The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio. Matthew’s research interests include landscape ecology, and in particular, anthropogenic effects on Neotropical migrant songbirds. He is also interested in engaging the public into community science efforts and exploring new opportunities for collaborative efforts between academia, agency professionals, and amateur ecologists. Matthew also runs a private research station with a year-round bird banding program in southeastern Ohio with his wife, Molly, and is currently serving as Vice President of the Association of Field Ornithologists, an international professional society dedicated to the study of birds and their habitats.

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