Recent advances in owl biology and conservation by Steve Sheffield

Dr. Sheffield will present highlights from the recent World Owl Conference held in Wisconsin in late October 2023. In addition, he will summarize several of the many papers that he and his team are in the process of compiling into manuscripts for published proceedings of the conference, for which he is the lead editor.

Steve Sheffield is a professor of Biology at Bowie Sate University. Dr. Sheffield is a field biologist who holds a Ph.D. in Zoology from Oklahoma State University, a M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from University of Maryland—CEES, and a B.A. in Zoology from SUNY-Oswego. Dr. Sheffield completed a post-doc with Oak Ridge Nat Laboratory and the EPA, and has previously served as faculty at Clemson University, Virginia Tech, and George Mason University. Dr. Sheffield has held research associate positions at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and is the curator of mammals for the Natural History Society of Mammals. Steve is also the current vice president of the Maryland Ornithological Society (MOS) and serves on a number of MOS committees. Dr. Sheffield is the compiler for the spring migratory bird count for Anne Arundel County, and covers 5 miles on the C&O Canal for the mid-winter bird count, and is an avid CBC participant, having completed 150-200 CBCs in five states and initiated a count circle in Oklahoma, serving as its compiler for five years.

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