As your site faces transformations due to climate change, your resource managers may be beginning to approach hard decisions about what can be saved, what must change, and how to steer your site toward resilience – perhaps using the new Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework as guidance. What might active participation in the ecological changes at hand look like for our audiences? While it’s harder for individuals to take a direct role in the future of glaciers or prairies, for the next Climate in Your Pocket presentation we want to share one example of the changes underway for a single tiny but flamboyant species – and how our actions can shape their future in a changing world.

Join us for a presentation by USFWS wildlife biologist Todd Eskelin as he discusses hummingbird banding and their migration activities in North America. Learn about his discoveries over the past five years of hummingbird field work, how you can invite hummingbirds to your home, and what their future may be in a changing climate. Along the way, he'll share some of the tools he uses to do this important work.

Todd's professional interest in birds began at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Since then, he has worked as the bander-in-charge at the fledgling Alaska Bird Observatory, trained banders during several temporary stints with the USFWS, and established and operated MAPS stations for Denali National Park, Alaska Peninsula/Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, and Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. He eventually settled at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in 2001 where he continues to work as a wildlife biologist.