Snail Kite. Photo by Jim Eager
What’s Happening to Our Breeding Birds, with Speaker Dave Goodwin
Socializing: 6:45 p.m.
Meeting starts: 7 p.m.
Program starts: 7:15 p.m.
About the presentation: We will discuss what has happened to the populations of breeding birds in Florida over the past thirty years. We will look at changes in both the range and estimated population size.
Dave Goodwin
About the speaker: Dave was born in Greenville, South Carolina, but in 1954 his family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1965, while still in high school, he began keeping a life list of birds he had seen.
Dave is a founding member and two-term past president of the Florida Ornithological Society (FOS). He was Regional Coordinator for both Florida Breeding Bird Atlas Projects. He was on the FOS Records Committee for seven years. He also served for four years as president of the St. Petersburg Audubon Society. Dave has participated in over 320 Christmas Bird Counts in Florida since 1971. He started and compiled the North Pinellas Count for 10 years. He has participated in the St. Petersburg Christmas Bird Count for 53 consecutive years.
Over the past 50 years he has led hundreds of field trips for Audubon chapters, the Florida Ornithological Society, the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, the Florida Birding and Nature Festival, the Big "O" Birding Festival, and the Wings and Wildflower Festival. He also led many trips for Florida Nature Tours. He participated in or led over 130 pelagic trips into Florida waters, including 30 years to Dry Tortugas. Dave has birded throughout the US, the Caribbean, and Europe, and has a Lower 48 ABA area life list of 720 species. The 492 species on his Florida life list ranks him at number 3.
Dave is a retired teacher, having taught history for 39 years in the public school system in Pinellas County, Florida. He also is an environmental educator for the Summer Nature Camp program at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve in St. Petersburg.
Crested Caracara. Photo by Dave Goodwin