Christina Davis from New Jersey’s Endangered and Non-Game Species Program will present “Hurricanes and Beach Nesting Birds – More Than Meets the Eye” at the Monmouth County Audubon Society meeting on Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. The program will be held at the Knights of Columbus hall, 200 Fair Haven Road, Fair Haven. The public is welcome; admission is free.
Davis grew up in rural southwestern New Jersey. She worked for the National Park Service, the National Forest Service and for academic institutions in California, Alaska and Virginia, according to a press release.
She circled back home and made her way through the state’s seasonal job offerings – state park service, New Jersey Audubon and the Nature Conservancy. While working for the Nature Conservancy in 2001 she encountered Piping Plovers and it was like a light switched on, according to a press release.
The following year Davis started working for the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program and she has remained there ever since.
Her responsibilities include non-raptor coastal birds (beach nesting, long-legged waders, gulls, terns, seabirds, secretive marsh birds) which has given her a keen interest in how sea-level rise and climate change impact these species. Her presentation is based on her 14-year work with these beach-nesting birds, according to the press release.
Davis has an undergraduate degree in environmental studies from Stockton University and a master’s degree in ecology and evolution from Rutgers University.
The Monmouth County Audubon Society, a chapter of the National Audubon Society, is dedicated to the enjoyment and study of nature, wildlife conservation, habitat protection and education, according to the press release. Further information can be obtained by visiting http://www.monmouthaudubon.org or via email at info@monmouthaudubon.org
