Dr. Lanham's Bird Talk at FOLKS Forum

Dr. Lanham gave a presentation on waterfowl that are seen frequently on Lake Keowee.

Examples include:

-Common Loon

-Red-necked Grebe

-Horned Grebe

-Eared Grebe

-Pie-billed Grebe

-Greater Scaup

-Lesser Scaup

-Great Blue Heron

-Osprey

-Bald Eagle

-Ring-billed gull

-Bonaparte's gull

-Plus many others!

He also provided maps detailing some of the birds home range, migration patterns and breeding areas. This got me to thinking about what the birds and shoreline stabilization have to do with each other.  Ground nesting birds would benefit from habitat that is created through various stabilization techniques. They could take advantage of cover created by shrubs like buttonbush and could make nests in bunch grasses like maidencane and switchgrass.