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URL:https://bluehillpeninsula.org/events/friends-from-the-field-loon-csi-f
 iguring-out-the-threats-to-loons-online-webinar/
SUMMARY:Friends From the Field - Loon CSI: Figuring Out the Threats to Loon
 s (ONLINE Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Join BHHT &amp\; IHT for our November Friends From the Field wi
 th Dr. Mark Pokras!\n\nDid you know that groups in Maine are deeply involv
 ed in studies on the environmental threats to common loons?\n\nToday we co
 nsider that common loons (Gavia immer) embody everything in nature that is
  wild\, free\, mysterious and beautiful. In New Hampshire\, Tiffany Grade 
 has said\, “When you encounter a loon\, you’re in another world. You
 ’re sucked out of the humdrum of the daily human routine and taken to a 
 wild place.” But loons are under pressure from a variety of problems inc
 luding climate change\, pollutants\, human recreational activities\, and e
 merging diseases and parasites. Learn more about how this is done as Dr. M
 ark Pokras (Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine\, Tufts University) des
 cribes the pathology work that helps us understand these threats\, priorit
 ize conservation efforts\, and highlight efforts of Maine organizations.\n
 \nRegister at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7_V5YozlRfGaJcL
 beeEn2Q\n\nDr. Mark Pokras\, Emeritus Associate Professor of Wildlife Medi
 cine\, and former Director of the Tufts Wildlife Clinic\, and Tufts Center
  for Conservation Medicine. Mark earned a bachelor's degree in ecology and
  systematics from Cornell University and a D.V.M. from Tufts. Mark has bee
 n involved in wildlife conservation and rehabilitation for over 50 years a
 nd has worked with local\, state and national\, and international groups o
 n educational and research efforts. His current areas of interest are medi
 cine and surgery of native wildlife (especially birds and reptiles)\, wild
 life (especially aquatic birds) as indicators of environmental health\, co
 nservation biology\, and allometric scaling. A particular focus has been r
 esearch on the effects of lead poisoning and the bioaccumulation of chemic
 als in loons and other aquatic animals. Mark works closely with most of th
 e private\, state and federal conservation organizations in the region and
  is strongly committed to fostering multidisciplinary collaborative effort
 s.
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