The Boise State Association of Office Professionals invites you to attend the April 12 brown bag event, featuring Marc Bechard, director of the Raptor Research Center. The title of the presentation is “What Satellite-tracked Turkey Vultures and Hooded Vultures Have Taught Us about Their Movement in Ecology.”The Raptor Research Center at Boise State has researched vultures around the world for a decade. Studies often focus on common vultures like the turkey vulture and their migratory behavior in North America, and endangered vultures such as the hooded vultures in Africa. Bechard led a study on turkey vulture migration between North and South America and will present the results of his study at the brown bag event.
Bechard has worked at Boise State for 33 years, is a distinguished professor of biological sciences and co-founded the Raptor Research Program at Boise State in 1987, where he currently serves as the director of raptor research. He mentored the establishment of the Intermountain Bird Observatory and has worked with birds of prey for 40 years. Recently Bechard’s research has shifted to studying vultures’ movement ecology and how people endanger them.
The brown bag event begins at noon; doors open at 11:30 a.m. at the Bishop Barnwell Room in the Student Union Building. All university staff are invited to attend and admission is free.
For more information, please contact Carol Nickel at 426-5961.
BY: BRADY W MOORE PUBLISHED 1:58 PM / MARCH 29, 2016