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Monthly Club Meeting – “Collaborations in Conservation: Working Together to Solve the American Kestrel Mystery”
Club Meeting – Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area Visitor Center, 100 Museum Road, Stevens, PA 17578
Presented by: Mercy Melo, Pennsylvania Game Commission
Migratory birds don’t obey state and international borders, and neither should our studies of them! Research projects that span large geographic areas are key to truly understanding bird populations and how we can protect them best. In this talk, Mercy Melo from the Pennsylvania Game Commission will discuss how teamwork makes the dream work in conservation studies using examples from her research on American kestrels.
Mercy Melo is a Wildlife Management Supervisor with the Pennsylvania Game Commission with a background in raptor biology and ecology. She got her start in raptor research through her undergraduate work with American kestrels at Cedar Crest College and continued following this passion throughout her graduate career. She completed her PhD at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst last year where she was able to research potential causes of the population decline in American kestrels, with the goal of developing management strategies for the species.