The Greater Princeton Branch of AYLUS (GPA) Light as a Feather Committee hosted a series of busking events to raise funds for Washington Crossing Audubon Society-Featherbed ln Banding Stations.
Washington Crossing Audubon Society has been funding Sourland preservation banding stations. It is part of MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) a cooperative bird monitoring and research effort among public and private agencies and individual bird banders across the continental United States, Canada, and northern Mexico. The program provides critical, long-term data on population and demographic parameters for over 150 target landbird species at multiple spatial scales.
GPA Volunteers (2 hrs at each event): Lina Yang, Ethan Xu, Kevin Song, Victor Song, Michelle Gan and Ashley Xu. They hosted busking performances on:
- 8/18/2022 Wishing Well Senior Center
- 8/24/2022 Chapel for the Residents of Morris Hall Meadows in Lawrenceville
- 8/25/2022 Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center
- 8/25/2022 Asian Food Market Plainsboro
- 8/26/2022 Princeton Nassau Street
- 8/27/2022 Asian Food Market Plainsboro
- 9/24/2022 Princeton United Methodist Church
- 10/12/2022 Princeton Morven Museum
GPA members raised funds of $500 and donated to Washington Crossing Audubon Society-Featherbed ln banding station in fall 2022. AYLUS members are proud to be part of the contribution to bird migration monitoring, environment change affecting habitat and bird populations. The busking event raised attention on global warming. And beautiful classical music makes people cry in Morris Hall.
