Annual Meeting
Uncle Butzie, Lisa and Mike at home in Leland, WI, Sept. 2009. (Photo by Steve Ewert)
"Natural History of Turkey Vultures in Wisconsin"
with Lisa Hartman and Michael Mossman
Saturday, June 2, 2012: 9 a.m.
Please join us as we celebrate another year of providing interesting and enlightening programs, activities and trips for our members and financial and volunteer support for the Arboretum. We will start the day with a delicious buffet breakfast, followed by our business meeting and short reports.
We'll end the morning with a lively and informative presentation by Hartman and Mossman as they share what they have gained from their extensive research on turkey vultures in Wisconsin, as well as stories and facts about these unique birds. A captive turkey vulture named Uncle Butzie will join them, giving the audience a rare chance to observe a tame vulture up close.
Hartman’s and Mossman’s long-term study involved capturing adult and young turkey vultures on their nests, marking them with wing tags and monitoring their movements.
This is an opportunity for people to learn the inside story of these fascinating birds that have the largest breeding distribution of all the breeding birds in the western hemisphere.
Mossman is a forest ecologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Hartman is an educator with the Sauk Prairie School District.
Note: If you purchased a Luncheon-Lectures series ticket, it included a ticket to the Annual Meeting.
Download an Annual Meeting registration form.