Please Join BirdCallsRadio for our next guest Chandler S. Robbins and the first in our new series called 
 For The Record: Legacy Interview" with Chandler S. Robbins
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Chandler S. Robbins (fondly know as Chan) is the Founder of the Annual North American Breeding Bird Survey – the groundbreaking program he organized in 1966 to monitor avian populations trends – and co-author of the highly respected "Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification" published in the same year. The esteemed scientist remains passionate about his work today!

Show Notes:
• Chandler Robbins recently celebrated his 98th birthday
• Patuxent Wildlife Research Center "Emiritus War Room"
• Chandler was banding birds in 1937 under a permit issued to his father.
• Robbins study & published the effects of the pesticide DDT in 1950's sprayed on breeding bird populations in forests.
• North American Breeding Bird Survey
• Co-Authored A Guide to Field Identification, Golden Press in 1966.
• Negotiated the first treaty USA/Soviet Union Migratory Bird Treaty 1976.
• Laysan Albatross "Wisdom" Robbins banded in 1956.
• Wrote The Early Years chapter in The History of Patuxent.
• Currently writing and completing a History of Breeding Bird Atlas in the New World for a publication by The Nuttall Ornithological Club, among other projects.


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