Kittatinny Ridge

A two day workshop focusing on the  Kittatinny Ridge.  Stretching 185 miles through eastern and central Pennsylvania to the Maryland line, the Kittatinny Ridge is a globally-significant fall migration flyway used annually by tens of thousands of raptors and millions of songbirds.  The ridge has been designated by Audubon Pennsylvania as the largest of the state’s “Important Bird Areas.”  The ridge also provides critical, high quality interior-forest and scrub habitat for dozens of species of songbirds, mammals, butterflies, reptiles and amphibians.  Topics will include greenways and wildlife corridors, phenology, songbird migration and banding, hawk and owl banding, Monarch Butterfly migration and tagging, hiking and other recreational values.  Presenters will include Little Gap Bird Observatory, Lehigh Gap Nature Center, Moravian College, Wildlands Conservancy, Audubon Pennsylvania and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.  To register, contact Rick Wiltraut at 610-746-2810 or rwiltraut@pa.gov