Annual Convention
The committee organizes the annual WSO convention each spring.
Chair: Steve Holzman
convention@wsobirds.org
Awards
Chair: Wendy Schultz
awards@wsobirds.org
Badger Birder Newsletter
THE BADGER BIRDER is an 11-issue per year newsletter that covers WSO events and activities, conservation issues, and other bird-related news.
Editor: Carl Schwartz
badgerbirder@wsobirds.org
Designer: Kelly Rindt
Anita Carpenter: Anita Carpenter is an Oshkosh naturalist who shares her passion and knowledge of birds, butterflies, and other critters with enthusiasm in the column Flight Feathers. In 2012 the National Audubon Society honored her with the Great Egret Award, recognizing 32 years of service to Winnebago Audubon. She continues in that role.
Mark Korducki: In addition to compiling his monthly Rare Birds report and doing a whole lot of field work for the Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II, Mark coordinates Wisconsin’s 92 Breeding Bird Survey routes.
Tom Schultz and Jeff Baughman: As WSO Field Trip Committee leaders, Tom and Jeff contribute reports and photos from the Society’s field trips.
Bookstore
Chair: Dar Tiede
bookstore@wsobirds.org
Communications
Chair: Vacant
communications@wsobirds.org
Helen Bolgrien began birding as part of her Wisconsin Master Naturalist Program and never looked back. Her role on the WSO Communications Committee is to manage all-member email communications. Helen grew up in Beloit, lives in Shorewood, and has a cabin in Adams County (Wisconsin) is truly home!
Jack Coulter is a birder based in Waukesha County and an undergraduate student at UW-Madison. His primary role on the WSO's Communications Committee is to manage the organization's Facebook page.
Katie Fisher, a recent Master Naturalist Graduate, works at St. Francis High School in St. Francis, Wisconsin. She serves as the field trip and bird club point person for calendar input on the WSO's Communications Committee.
Erin Giese works for UW-Green Bay as a Senior Research Specialist working on many bird-related projects and serves a web editor on the WSO Communications Committee by posting news stories and editing content.
Conservation
Chair: Carl Schroeder
conservation@wsobirds.org
Jack Coulter
Ron Eckstein is a retired DNR Wildlife Biologist. He worked on forest biodiversity issues, eagle and osprey recovery, and wild rice conservation. He is a board member for Wisconsin’s Green Fire, and the Northwoods Land Trust. He is also Chair of the Forest Conservation Affairs Committees for The Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society and Wisconsin’s Green Fire.
Davor Grgic
Sue Knaack is a retired Speech/Language Pathologist. While working, a large part of her free time was spent birding and doing restoration work with Madison Audubon Society. In addition, she served on the MAS Board for 9 years. Sue lives in the Beaver Dam area and continues to enjoy birding, volunteering with conservation organizations, and working on land restoration.
Mark Martin worked for the DNR for 40 years, including 29 years with the State Natural Areas Program. Mark has been the resident co-manager at Madison Audubon’s Goose Pond Sanctuary since 1979. Mark and Sue Foote-Martin coordinated the Breeding Atlas in Columbia County. In 2012, Mark received the Great Egret Award from the National Audubon Society.
Peter McKeever is a land conservation attorney who represents local land trusts and other conservation organizations. He spent ten years as the State Director of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and has had a long career advising organizations on environmental and land use threats and public policy.
Tom Prestby is an original member of the Wisconsin eBird team and still reviews records from throughout the state. Tom served as the chair of the Training and Support Committee for WBBA II and reviews the Atlas data. His five years of intense Atlas field work and training observers have been the highlight of his birding career to this point. Tom lives in Green Bay and loves birding locally and taking occasional birding trips.
Deborah Turski
Bill Volkert
Development
Chair: Vacant
development@wsobirds.org
Education
Chair: Greg Bisbee
education@wsobirds.org
Field Trips
Chair: Vacant
fieldtrips@wsobirds.org
Historian
Chair: Nancy Nabak
historian@wsobirds.org
Honey Creek
Chair: Dan Pickarts
honeycreek@wsobirds.org
Membership
Chair: Mary Murrell
mary.murrell@wsobirds.org
Deb Turski, a devoted birding learner on the Membership Committee, appreciates the opportunity to support and promote WSO membership to engage birders statewide in the many WSO initiatives to benefit birds and their habitats.
Passenger Pigeon Journal
Chair: Carl Schroeder
passengerpigeon@wsobirds.org
Editor: Carl Schroeder
passengerpigeon@wsobirds.org
Assistant Editors:
Megan Heneke
Janet Speth
Kat O’Connell-Valuch
Michael Putnam
Peer Review Editor: Dr. Robert Jadin
Photo Editor: John Pradarelli,
ppphotos@wsobirds,org
Art Editor: Dr. Daniel Meinhardt
Season Editors:
Sunil Gopalan, spring@wsobirds.org
Darwin Tiede, summer@wsobirds.org
Lynn Barber, fall@wsobirds.org
Tom Klubertanz, winter@wsobirds.org
Records Committee: Quentin Yoerger
Records
Chair: Quentin Yoerger
records@wsobirds.org
Tom Prestby: Tom is an original member of the Wisconsin eBird team and still reviews records from throughout the state. Tom served as the chair of the Training and Support Committee for WBBA II and reviews the Atlas data. His five years of intense Atlas field work and training observers have been the highlight of his birding career to this point. Tom lives in Green Bay and loves birding locally and taking occasional birding trips.
Aaron Stutz: In addition to his work on the Records Committee, Aaron does a lot of behind the scenes work for Wisconsin eBird—reviewing records for over a dozen counties and working on filters for much of the state. In his free time Aaron birds somewhat obsessively around his home in Jefferson County.
Mark Korducki: In addition to writing his monthly Rare Bird report article for the Badger Birder, Mark leads bird tours and is the compiler for Wisconsin's 92 Breeding Bird Survey routes. Mark has served on the WSO Records Committee for the past two decades.
Ted Keyel: Former WSO Winter Records Compiler and atlaser for WBBA II. While raptors and Charadriiformes are among his favorite birds, he likes everything and tries birding around the state as he is able.
Research
Chair: Vacant
Scholarships and Grants
Chair: Steve Holzman
grants@wsobirds.org
