Donated birds to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

https://www.sustainability.upenn.edu/designing-green/bird-friendly-design

This Spring 2019 PBS Project donated 15 birds made up of 11 species to the Academy of Natural Sciences. They include a couple of new species for the Project, Eastern Whip-Poor-Will (Antrostomus vociferus), and Grasshopper Sparrow ( Ammodramus savannarum) . Thank you to everyone for keeping their eyes open for birds and adding them to iNaturalist.

Watch The Messenger November 2nd on Penn's Campus

Bird Aware Penn, MES and FRES are working together to bring The Messenger to Penn's Campus, November 2nd at 5:30 on the Chemistry Building located at 231 South 34th Street.

The screening of this eye-opening documentary is sponsored by the MES Program, and FRES (Facilities and Real Estate Services). Please join us for a screening of the film and a discussion of the film and local efforts afterwards with renowned ornithologist, Keith Russell.

Please RSVP here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-of-the-messenger-tickets-27391919970

Last week was a busy one for monitoring. At the Hill Pavilion bridge I found two Black-throated Blue Warblers, a male one day, and a female the next day. Thank you to Keith for helping to confirm the identify of the female, which I thought might have been an Ovenbird. There were also three Catbirds found at the Hill Pavilion bridge, and one Ovenbird on the Johnson Pavilion roof. There seems to be an ongoing explosion of Catbird casualties across campus, two have been found this week so far. Other finds have included a Woodcock, which was found at base of the west side of Harnwell House, a Common Yellowthroat found at Pottruck Gym, and a Wood Thrush at the Left Bank building.