** THIS IS A ZOOM-ONLY PRESENTATION **
** Co-Sponsored with Land of Lakes Bird Alliance **
Kara Snow – Project Pileated Woodpecker: Characterizing Tree Cavity and Use by Minnesota’s Wildlife (One-year update!)
The Pileated Woodpecker is a keystone species in Minnesota’s forests, creating large cavities that many other wildlife species later use. In this talk, Ms. Snow will share an update from the first year of her Pileated Woodpecker project, including the methods we used to locate and monitor nesting cavities across a gradient of forest management.
Ms. Snow will touch on some of the challenges she and her team faced in the field, early successes from the first season, and what they are beginning to learn about habitat use. She will also highlight ways the public can help by sharing observations of Pileated Woodpeckers and cavity use, which can play an important role in supporting this research going forward.
