The Lancaster County Bird Club will meet on Thursday, May 9, at 7 p.m. at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area Visitor's Center, 100 Museum Road, Stevens. Patti Barber, an endangered bird specialist with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, will present "Current Conservation Concerns of American Goshawk in PA."

The American goshawk was recently recognized and formally listed in Pennsylvania as endangered. Barber will briefly share the history of the goshawk population in Pennsylvania and possible reasons for its decline. She will describe current monitoring efforts, successes, challenges, and failures, including the Game Commission's efforts to test suspected causes contributing to the decline. Identifying these causes is the first step in planning a recovery.

Barber has studied birds on four continents. She did her master's research on mate guarding and paternity in red-faced warblers. At the Pennsylvania Game Commission, she is responsible for the 20 threatened and endangered native birds in the state.

The program is free and open to the public. For more details, call 717-856-3851 or 717-725-2717.

The club will also offer field trips in May. These activities are free and open to the public, but registration is required no later than 6 p.m. the day before the trip.

On Saturday, May 4, three Warbler Walks will be offered. One will occur at Chickies Rock County Park with a 7 a.m. start; contact Roger Stone at 717-393-9030 for more details. Another walk will start at 7 a.m. at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, and information is available by contacting Doug Anderson at 717-203-2482 or douglas.anderson58@yahoo.com. The final walk will begin at Pumping Station Road off Route 322 at 8 a.m.; contact Carl Groff at 717-471-9969 or fledge19@verizon.net to learn more.

A field trip will be held on Sunday, May 5, at the Northwest River Trail in Bainbridge with a 7:30 a.m. start. For further information, contact Warren or Nina Wolf at 717-284-2663 or wolfers@aol.com.

A field trip at the Conewago Recreation Trail in Elizabethtown will begin at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 11. For more details, contact Larry Bernhardt at 717-314-1461 or sjbernhardt@verizon.net.

The venue on Sunday, May 12, will be the Millport Conservancy in Lititz, and the outing will begin at 7 a.m. More information is available by contacting Anderson.

The club will offer a field trip at Susquehannock State Park in Drumore at 7 a.m. on Saturday, May 18. Contact Larry Bernhardt at 717-314-1461 or sjbernhardt@verizon.net to learn more.

For more information about LCBC and its programs, visit http://www.lancasterbirdclub.org, http://www.facebook.com/lancasterbirdclub, or http://www.instagram.com/lancasterbirdclub.