The problems birds face during migration, and how to solve them: February 20, Young, Gifted & Wild About Birds

Fredo Guo, Ph.D., is a conservation biologist committed to solutions-oriented research. Her presentation is set for Thursday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m.

February 10, 2025 — Migrating birds need places to rest and eat along their routes. Habitat loss and degradation are among the most important causes of the massive drop in bird populations over the past half century.

The availability and quality of what remains can be make or break for songbirds.

Dr. Fengyi (Freda) Guo’s research focuses on this problem. She’s working to identify important stopover spots, understand the habitats birds rely on during migration, and see how they cope with obstacles when stopover sites are missing.

It’s particularly important in a state like Connecticut, which has both well-documented migration habitat and widespread urban and suburban sprawl that has subsumed many natural areas.

Freda will be the next presenter in the 2025 Young, Gifted and Wild About Birds series.

Join us for her Zoom presentation, “Stopover ecology and conservation of migratory land birds in the Eastern United States.”

It’s set for Thursday, February 20, 7 – 8 p.m.

Freda is a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. and a Rose Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and her M.Phil. and B.Sc. from The University of Hong Kong.

She describes herself as a conservation biologist committed to solutions-oriented research. Her presentation promises to be timely and relevant to conservation in Connecticut.