Len Reitsma, graduate student Sam Parks and undergraduate Autumn Heil just completed Sam’s second and final field season collecting data for his MS in Environmental Science and Policy. Both mainly focused on Sam’s thesis work: response of bird communities to experimental group harvests in Canaan and Lyme, NH. Data collecting combined point count censuses with marking and mapping territories of six target species in Canaan. They also assisted Reitsma in his 18th consecutive year monitoring a population of Canada warblers. Reitsma is also advising Katelyn Courtot on her thesis work looking at habitat overlap between American martens and snowshoe hares. And he is editing graduate student Sierra Marchacos’ thesis on wood turtle habitat use in the North Country, where Katelyn is also focused.
Reitsma also initiated long-term monitoring of the bird community at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science and recently (7-2-20) conducted a bird demonstration on his tree farm to the Canaan Bird and Garden Club.
Recent Publications
Roberto-Charron, A. C., J. Kennedy; L. Reitsma; J. Tremblay; R. Krikun; K. Hobson, J. Ibarzabal and K. C. Fraser. 2020. Widely distributed breeding populations of Canada warbler (Cardellina canadensis) converge on migration through Central America. BMC Zoology 5:10 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-020-00056-4
Westwood, A., J. D. Lambert, L. Reitsma, D. S. Stralberg. 2020. Prioritizing Areas for Land Conservation and Forest Management Planning for the Threatened Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis) in the Atlantic Northern Forest of Canada. Diversity: 12, 61; doi:10.3390/d12020061
