Julie Craves

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Contributing Editor Julie Craves is a tireless researcher and bird bander with a keen interest in the stopover ecology of migrant birds. She is also a personable writer with a gift for making everything she writes readable and entertaining. Her first article in Birder's World (now BirdWatching), "Forest Fire-tail," a profile of the American Redstart, appeared in June 1994. She answers readers' questions about birds in her column "Since You Asked" in every issue of the magazine.

She is supervisor of avian research at the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and a research associate at the university's Environmental Interpretive Center. She has made a number of trips to Cuba, where she has been working to develop bird-survey routes and protocols that can be used by future environmental tourists and educational groups to assess the health of bird populations in Cuba.

Publications
Craves's research has been published in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology, North American Birds, Michigan Birds and Natural History, and other scientific publications.

She is also the author of The Birds of Dearborn: An Annotated Checklist (Lulu.com, 2007) and Birds of Southeast Michigan: Dearborn: Wayne County: An Annotated Checklist (Cranbrook Institute of Science, 1996).

Her essay "Shush and Pish" appears in the book Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders (2007).

Online
Craves writes about the connection between coffee and the environment -- and especially bird habitat -- in her blog Coffee & Conservation. She describes the day-today goings-on of the Rouge River Bird Observatory in the blog Net Results.

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