Lakes Region Audubon

Join NH Audubon’s Becky Suomala for a program about the state-endangered Common Nighthawk and the effort to install gravel nest patches on roof tops.

Nighthawks are declining throughout their range and biologists do not know why. The dawn and dusk “peent” call of these birds was once a familiar sound in cities and towns throughout New Hampshire, where they nested on flat, pea stone gravel roofs and fed on insects attracted to city lights.

In recent years, rubber and PVC have largely replaced pea stone roofing, and nesting nighthawks have disappeared from many New Hampshire towns. New Hampshire Audubon initiated Project Nighthawk in 2007 to investigate the potential for restoring nesting nighthawks by placing simple gravel “nest patches” on flat rooftops.

Becky will also share the latest news on nesting nighthawks in the Ossipee pine barrens and share stories on the successes and failures of nighthawk nests that Project Nighthawk volunteers have monitored. Becky Suomala is a biologist with NH Audubon and the coordinator of Project Nighthawk.

• THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011
• 7:30 PM
• The Loon Center
• Lees Mill Rd. Moultonborough
• Handicapped Accessible
• Contact: The Loon Center at 476-LOON (476-5666)

Nighthawks program

The West Indies are one of evolution’s great  laboratories. There are birds, lizards, and other animals found no where else in the world. Pam Hunt first visited the region in 1990, got hooked, and has been back over 20 times since.

Come listen to Hunt talk about the West Indies, the diversity of birds found there!

Thursday, February 17, 7:30 p.m.

The Loon Center on Lees Mill Rd. Moultonborough. 

Contact: The Loon Center at 476-5666

The Sandwich (NH) Christmas Bird Count will be held on Sunday, January 2, 2011.

Volunteers from all over North America will head out this winter season to look for birds. Audubon’s International Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is the oldest scientific database on bird populations in the world. The 2010 Christmas season marks the 111th annual. Each year the count area picks its official bird survey day between December 14th and January 5th.
As with the other 20 official bird count areas in the state of New Hampshire, volunteers will begin heading out before sunrise to listen and look for birds. The day closes with a compilation meeting where volunteers gather together to report and tally what they have seen. For a list of the New Hampshire CBC areas and contact persons, visit NH Audubon at http://nhbirdrecords.org/birding/CBC.htm