Brad Winn

Brad worked for the state of Georgia for 17 years as a Program Manager for the coastal office of the Nongame Conservation Section Before joining the Manomet Staff as a Conservation Specialist in February, 2011. 

As Program Manager he oversaw a wide range of research, monitoring and management projects focused on protecting, and recovering depleted populations of native wildlife and natural communities. Some of the most significant projects included monitoring the integrity of the North Atlantic right whale calving grounds, managing the recovery of the local loggerhead turtle population, protecting and managing sandbar-island nesting sites for seabirds and shorebirds, monitoring American Wood Stork breeding trends, overseeing Swallow-tailed Kite nesting studies, and mapping and classifying all of the natural communities of Georgia’s Coastal Counties.        

Brad’s relationship with Manomet began in the late 1990’s when he and Brian Harrington collaborated on a study of a Red Knot fall staging event at the mouth of Georgia’s Altamaha River. That work with knots, as well as an understanding the significance of the River Delta for American Oystercatchers, Piping Plovers, and other migrant shorebirds, led to the establishment of the 40^th Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN) site and designation as a nationally significant Important Bird Area. Brad has participated in eight research expeditions to Arctic shorebird breeding areas in Alaska and eastern Canada, including six with Stephen Brown Manomet’s Director of Shorebird Science.

In his new job, Brad will be working on many Shorebird Recovery Project initiatives, including: leading shorebird ecology and habitat management workshops, coordinating International Shorebird Surveys (ISS), studying the migration ecology of Whimbrel, participating in Manomet’s Arctic Shorebird Demographics Network (ASDN), and contributing to Manomet’s broad efforts to promote the recovery of American Oystercatchers.