101 Ways to Help Birds

LAURA ERICKSON has been a scientist, teacher, writer, wildlife rehabilitator, professional blogger, public speaker, photographer, American Robin and Whooping Crane Expert for the popular Journey North educational website, and Science Editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. She was the 2014 recipient of the American Birding Association's prestigious Roger Tory Peterson Award and the 2020 Minnesota Ornithologists' Union's Thomas Sadler Roberts Memorial Award. She's written twelve books about birds including101 Ways to Help Birds, and The Bird Watching Answer Book for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. She's currently a columnist and contributing editor for Bird Watching magazine. Since 1986 she has been producing the long-running "For the Birds" radio program for many public radio stations; the program is also podcast on iTunes (http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/). She lives in Duluth, Minnesota. Erickson will be the initial speaker for the fall sessions of the Thursdays at the U lecture series. Her presentation, also titled "101 Ways to Help Birds," will be September 8th, beginning at 12:30, in the Blue Hills Lecture Hall, Ritzinger 234, on the UWEC-Barron County campus. The campus is located at 1800 College Drive in Rice Lake. This and other sessions of the lecture series are free and open to the public, thanks to financial support from the campus foundation. Neither seating reservations nor parking permits are needed for campus guests.