On November 3rd, the Stanton Bird Club will be hosting the first in its 2025-26 lecture series with featured speaker, Mackenzie (Kenzie) Roeder, State Songbird Biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Entitled “Conserving Maine’s Swallows: A Call to Action for Aerial Insectivores”, the talk will focus on the work Kenzie is doing to support declining bird populations. She is currently planning and coordinating several new statewide initiatives focused on aerial insectivores including Bank, Barn, Cliff, and Tree Swallows as well as Purple Martins and Chimney Swifts, with an emphasis on building partnerships with landowners and communities to support these declining species.