Storm Chasing and Birding Adventures by Isaac Polanski
"Birds and weather share an important relationship with each other. Weather influences migration routes and fallouts, brings in vagrants, and impacts habitat from year to year. This program will review my Michigan big years of 2023 and 2024 as well as my storm chasing adventures of the same years. The relationship between birds and the weather will be discussed and how the weather has helped me find multiple rare birds."
Isaac Polanski has been a birder since winter 2021. He has been a storm chaser since 2015. He has seen over 140 tornadoes across the United States. Both 2023 and 2024 he had over 315 bird species in Michigan. He is a graduate of Central Michigan University with a degree in Integrated Sciences for Secondary Education. He works for the City of Royal Oak in the Water Maintenance Department.
