Upcoming Events

Please join Dr. Sean Murphy and the Tiadaghton Audubon Society for a presentation on the endangered Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow. The presentation will be at 7:00pm, following our 6:00pm meeting. Both are open and free to everyone!  Our meeting and presentation will take place in the old music room at the Wellsboro School District Admin Building.

Sean joined the Wildlife Diversity Division of the Pennsylvania Game Commission in January 2018 and leads the Endangered and Nongame Birds Section. He received a B.S. in Biology (Ecology) from Penn State University and a Ph.D. in Biology from the City University of New York in 2010. His graduate work focused on the population biology of the American Oystercatcher, near the northern limits of its range.

Following graduate school, Sean worked as a Wildlife Biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Corvallis, Oregon. His work focused on the interactions between avian populations and their environment—leading multiple studies on the population dynamics, life-history, and habitat use for a variety of avian species of conservation concern, including marshbirds, shorebirds, and seabirds. Prior to joining the Game Commission, Sean worked for Conservation InSight, where he helped develop a spatially-explicit population estimator for the federally-endangered Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow and implement new survey protocols to improve current data collection methods.

Directions: Go past the main entrance to the Admin building, turn left, and follow the building all the way around to the back.  You will pass a maintenance shed/building.  Go in the back entrance, and follow the signs to the meeting room.