Kim Potter was raised on a dairy farm in Wisconsin and earned a BA in Biology. After getting side-tracked and skiing in Vail for a few years she jumped back into science at a medical lab in Denver that specialized in transplants. After completing Wildlife Management classes from Oregon State University, Kim became a field biologist with the Forest Service.

In her lecture Kim will lead us into the world of Black Swifts. Black swifts undergo an extraordinary migrational journey; twice a year thery travel thousands of miles between their breeding grounds in North America and their winter habitat in the Neotropics. Black Swifts are a bird of conservation concern, and knowing where they breed and where they winter is essential to conserving the habitats upon which they depend. We are fortunate to have these birds breed in the Roaring Fork Valley. With funding help from Roaring Fork Audubon, Kim outfitted swifts with transmitters which enabled her to follow them on their migration. We now have information about where they winter, which can be as far away as the Andes of Peru, something not known until this study.

Kim Potter will also be presenting in Carbondale at the Third Street Center at 5:30pm.

Tea, donated from Two Leaves and a Bud, will be offered during lecture. Naturalist Nights are brought to you through a partnership between The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, Wilderness Workshop and Roaring Fork Audubon.