MPF Webinar: Shorebirds of the Prairies with Doug Helmers

You don’t need to travel to a far beach coast to see shorebirds! These migrating birds make many stops in Missouri and all throughout the Central and Mississippi flyways, including in our prairies. Learn about the shorebirds you might find, and the habitat critical to their successful migration.

Doug Helmers is a Missouri Prairie Foundation board member. He retired in 2018 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the Iowa private lands state coordinator. As project leader for the Partners for Fish & Wildlife program, Doug worked with private landowners to improve fish and wildlife habitat on their lands. The Partners Program in Iowa worked diligently with partners to implement restoration/establishment of monarch/pollinator habitat. Prior to working for USFWS, he was a wetland emphasis team leader with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Missouri. In addition, he spent three years working for the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network in Massachusetts. Doug received his B.S. and M.S. in fisheries and wildlife from the University of Missouri. He grew up in the corn fields of western Illinois and has lived in Missouri for over 35 years. He enjoys traveling, various outdoor recreation activities, and spending time with his dogs at the farm. Doug and his lovely wife are restoring and managing 65 acres of prairie and woodland on their farm in Chariton County.

Learn more at moprairie.org

This webinar was recorded live on June 9, 2021.

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