Effects of the CZU Lightning Complex Fire on Hermit Thrushes of Big Basin Redwoods State Park - Livestream

In August 2020 through July of 2021, the CZU Lightning Complex fire burned 97% of Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Coast Range of California. The fire burned at high severity levels in areas where concentrations of hermit thrushes (Catharus guttatus slevini) were known to breed, including two field sites where Allison Nelson studied the species from 2013-2015. Join us to learn about her past geolocator tracking studies on hermit thrushes breeding in Big Basin, as well as those wintering at SFBBO’s Coyote Creek Field Station, and how she used this previous capture data to compare the pre-fire population to numbers observed post-fire in summer 2021. She’ll also touch on her work recording hermit thrush songs and collecting data and samples from populations breeding north of the San Francisco Bay.

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