FREE| 12:00PM - 1:00PM | Presenter: Vic Berardi

Meeting Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2nd floor

No Registration Required

Vic’s presentation will discuss how some raptor species are acclimating to an urban and suburban environment. He will show examples of raptors using a human dominated landscape and how some species are thriving and becoming more dependent on humans.

Vic Berardi is the founder of the all-volunteer Illinois Beach State Park Hawk Watch which has conducted twenty-four complete seasons of full time hawk migration monitoring which began in the fall of the year 2000.

Vic is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA) and serves on several HMANA Committees including being the Chair of the Winter Raptor Survey Committee. He also served for several years as the Central Continental Flyway Editor for Hawk Migration Studies which is HMANA’s biannual publication. In 2014 he was the recipient of HMANA’s Appreciation Award for his outstanding service to further hawk migration studies and conservation. In 2009 he was awarded the Service to Chicago Area Birders by the Chicago Audubon Society. And in 2007 he was awarded the Grassroots Conservation Leadership Award for his leadership in raptor education and research.