Tricia Rodriguez Presents Beyond Binoculars: The Science and Impact of Bird Banding

Name: Tricia Rodriguez Presents Beyond Binoculars: The Science and Impact of Bird Banding
Start: 2026-03-09T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-03-09T22:00:00-06:00
Location: University of Montana

Schedule

Mon Mar 09 2026 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

University of Montana | Missoula, MT

Please join us for our chapter meeting on Monday, March 9, 2026, at 7:00 PM. Our speaker will be Tricia Rodriguez from the University of Montana’s Bird Ecology Lab (UMBEL), who will present her talk, Beyond Binoculars: The Science and Impact of Bird Banding.
Field ornithologists collect information about wild bird populations in a variety of ways, with the goals or questions in a study guiding the choice of methodology. Banding is an excellent choice for researchers who need to mark and identify individual birds, assess health and body condition, collect measurements, and more. UMBEL has been studying songbird populations in western Montana since 2006, capturing and banding over 37,000 birds from 154 species. Tricia will familiarize you with bird banding efforts in Montana and around the world! She will share results with us from several local studies.
Tricia Rodriguez is a professional bird bander and avian ecologist. She was born and raised in Georgia, where she lived a suburban lifestyle without a bird feeder in sight. In her final semester at the University of Georgia, she took ornithology “just for fun,” but it ultimately changed the direction of her life. After graduation, she traveled for eight years as a seasonal field technician, working on bird projects in places like Cape May, NJ, Denali National Park, AK, and Maui, HI. She has been an avian ecologist with UMBEL since 2012, managing the banding program but also jumping in to work on any of the other great projects at UMBEL whenever there’s a chance. Tricia enjoys spending time on the river, camping in beautiful places, cooking, knitting, and playing with her two cats.
The meeting will be held in Room 110 in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISB) on the University of Montana campus. The building lies on the south end of campus on Beckwith Avenue between Maurice and Mansfield avenues. You also have the option of watching the meeting over Zoom at this link:
https://umontana.zoom.us/j/97859873399
Meeting ID: 978 5987 3399