Please join Bob Sargent for his presentation: Ecology and Conservation of Bald Eagles in Georgia

Bob will speak about the ecology and conservation of bald eagles in the U.S. and specifically in Georgia. He will talk about how and why the species came perilously close to extinction in the Lower 48, how that crisis was reversed, the recent avian influenza outbreak, and the status of eagles in Georgia today.

Bob Sargent badgered his major professor into letting him take an ornithology class while doing his master’s research (a deer study). That class changed his life, as he has been consumed by a passion for learning about and conserving feathered creatures ever since. He studied the ecology of migratory songbirds for his Ph.D. (UGA), and then worked 20 years as the natural resources manager of Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia. Bob was an adjunct teacher at three universities and served as president of the Georgia Ornithological Society. In 2015, he was hired by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as program manager of the Wildlife Conservation Section office in Forsyth. He leads a team of biologists and technicians, participates in songbird and shorebird surveys, teaches an ornithology camp for teenagers, and is the agency’s lead for the conservation of raptors, especially bald eagles and peregrine falcons.