Summer Speaker Series: Nathan Pieplow

Join us at Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park for our summer speaker series, which will take place on the third Thursday of the month from June through September. Doors open at 6 PM with free bites and drinks provided! Our third speaker is none other than Nathan Pieplow, an internationally recognized expert in bird vocalizations and author of The Peterson Field Guide Bird Sounds of Eastern North America.

Nathan will present on How the Data Revolution Is About to Change the Way You Bird. What if your phone could pick out rarities for you from a flock of birds? What if it could tell you exactly where an individual migrant came from and where it is going? These technologies already exist, or soon will. Nathan will share how cutting-edge innovations in bird tracking and automatic identification can enhance conservation, supercharge citizen science, and broaden the appeal of birding. You’ll learn how the song of a White-crowned Sparrow communicates not just its species identity, but its street address. You’ll learn what happened when a flock of curlews ran into a snowstorm, and how we know. And you’ll learn how YOU can collect the data needed to reverse declines in bird populations.