•
BIDDEFORD, Maine

Noah Perlut to speak at Shelburne Farms on farming strategies to preserve grassland birds

Noah Perlut
Noah Perlut

Noah Perlut, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, will give a talk about grassland birds at Shelburne Farms in Vermont on June 14, 2016. His presentation is titled “Community Farming and Grassland Birds: A Local Conservation Strategy.”

According to Perlut, bobolinks and Savannah sparrows return to their place of birth to breed. As a result, Perlut, who has studied the two species extensively in the Shelburne Farms area, has been able to track the family stories of many bobolinks and Savannah sparrows and, consequently, can  tell their unique stories.

Perlut will discuss how the timing and intensity of haying and grazing affect the birds and how management opportunities among Vermont’s farming and landowner community can balance bird and farmer needs. He hopes that educating farmers and landowners about the family stories of bobolinks and Savannah sparrows will encourage them to adopt practices that are beneficial to the birds’ survival.

Learn more about the presentation

 

To apply, visit www.une.edu/admissions

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.