Flyway Nights is a monthly speaker series hosted by the Yolo Basin Foundation highlighting environmental issues, current research topics in conservation, and natural history of Northern California. Talks are 60 to 90 minutes in duration. A $15 donation is suggested. Donations help ensure that the YBF is able to continue hosting this program. Events are via Zoom and registration is required. More information and registration.

Tricolored blackbirds are an iconic and intriguing component of California’s avifauna. Robert Meese, a resident of Davis, has been studying tricolors for over 22 years. In this presentation, he will discuss characteristics of the species that make it especially challenging to conserve and describe essential elements of a conservation strategy that are required to keep the species on the landscape.

Dr. Robert Meese is an animal ecologist with professional experience in a variety of landscapes including coastal California’s rocky intertidal, the tundra of Greenland, the mountains of Colorado, and California’s Central Valley. He has been working with tricolored blackbirds for 22 years.