The upcoming Smoky Hills Audubon Society meeting will explore changes to bird populations.
Chuck Otte is scheduled to share his 60 years of birding experience and show how bird populations have plummeted through those years.
The program is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in room 229 of Kansas Wesleyan University's Peters Science Hall, which is on Cloud Street. The program is open to the public at no charge and those attending are encouraged to arrive early to meet the speaker.
Song bird populations are crashing all over the country as weather affected by climate change impacts bird populations, the Smoky Hills Audubon Society noted in its news release. Heat waves , drought, fire storms, urbanization and sea level rises are chipping away at bird populations, it added.
Otte will describe what has changed and offer suggestions about what can be done to reverse the problem, according to information from Smoky Hills Audubon Society.