Alaska - the breeding grounds for the flyways

Golden Gate Audubon presents Nils Warnock

Berkeley: Thursday, May 16

7 p.m. refreshments, 7:30 p.m. program

Western Sandpipers on the Copper River Delta / Photo by Milo Burcham

Did you know that Alaska supports more than 80 percent of all the seabirds nesting in the United States? And that close to a third of the world's shorebird species come to Alaska to breed? Nils Warnock will talk about the many ways that Alaska is important to different bird populations. He will present amazing examples of how Alaska's birds migrate to all continents. He will also highlight some of the conservation work that Audubon is doing in the state, focusing on current projects in the Arctic and Tongass National Forest.

Nils Warnock, executive director of Audubon Alaska since 2010, has spent most of the past 30 years studying the ecology of Pacific Flyway birds, with a particular emphasis on shorebirds and migration. From 1998 to 2008, he was codirector of the Wetlands Ecology Division at PRBO Conservation Science. Nils has a PhD in ecology from the UC Davis and San Diego State University and serves as an adjunct professor in the department of wildlife at Humboldt State University. His research has taken him throughout the Pacific Basin. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

Free for GGAS members, $5 nonmembers.

Location: Northbrae Community Church

941 The Alameda (between Solano and Marin), Berkeley, CA 94707

Directions: www.northbrae.org/directions.html