MARQUETTE — Laughing Whitefish Bird Alliance board member Gary Palmer will present a refresher on the birds returning to the north woods this spring at 7 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, April 9, in the George Shiras Room at the Peter White Library in Marquette.

Palmer has been a longtime member of the Alliance, serving on the board since 2012. He fell in love with birding over a decade ago during a spring field ornithology course at Northern Michigan University and has been utterly hooked ever since.

He spent several seasons as a professional migration counter at sites such as Whitefish Point and Hawk Ridge and has spent summers censusing breeding birds in Illinois and Idaho.