Episode #063: Wayne Petersen
Wayne R. Petersen director of the Massachusetts Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program at the Massachusetts Audubon Society ©Betty Petersen. All Rights Reserved
BirdCallsRadio archive show featuring Wayne Petersen as guest on July 22, 2012. Petersen is the director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Important Bird Area (IBA) program. He was also the field ornithologist for Mass Audubon for 15 years before taking on his current role.
Listen as he discusses the IBA program and what it takes for a property to be considered an IBA. He also talks about seabirds and some of his state’s IBA properties off shore. Petersen is very knowledgable and well known in the birding world. He covers a lot of ground in the interview
Early in the show, Chris Bosak and co-host Mardi Dickinson discuss topics such as birding the Norwalk Islands and Great Blue Herons. Chris Bosak also takes a look back at birding by reading a chapter about Northern Bobwhites from a 1934 book.
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