Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve Notes 2017 by Laura Gooch, Project Coordinator

In a little less than three and a half years (as of December 2017), volunteers have performed 434 surveys and documented 194 species of birds at the site.  ~ Laura Gooch

Recommended reading: ​Bird Surveys at Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve (CLNP – also known as Dike 14)

Listening for white-headed woodpeckers, with a parabolic microphone (the green is the outside of the parabola). Photo: David Kazdan

Laura Gooch is a civil engineer by training and an ornithologist by avocation. After practicing environmental engineering for more than 15 years, she began photographing and observing birds. She is currently a research associate with the ornithology department of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and a licensed bird bander affiliated with the Black Swamp Bird Observatory. Her ornithology related work includes bird photography and song recording, bird banding, migration monitoring through night-flight call analysis, bird study skin preparation, breeding bird surveys, and coordination of systematic bird surveys at Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve. Laura Gooch-Ornithology Biography PDF

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